Replies to post #104647 on Mohacsy's Safe Portfolio Member Forum

[Elroy Jetson]

Strictly speaking us have done a fair bit of counter-hacking and hacking of others ourselves, which I support.

Not businesses, but the FBI US Cyber Crime Division, and not to forget the NSA developed some of the very best cyberhacking tools.

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2019/05/stolen-nsa-hacking-tools-were-used-in-the-wild-14-months-before-shadow-brokers-leak/


Russian gas pipelines don't over-pressure themselves, and Iranian nuclear centrifuges don't quickly burn themselves out, not without "software assistance" from us.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/2004/02/27/reagan-approved-plan-to-sabotage-soviets/a9184eff-47fd-402e-beb2-63970851e130/

https://www.csoonline.com/article/3218104/stuxnet-explained-the-first-known-cyberweapon.html

Nor do Russian and North Korean hackers lose most of their loot, except through hacking attempts by the FBI. We're more active and capable than you've heard.

[Elroy Jetson]

There's also no question the largest appeal of Bitcoin is to launder drug money and evade taxes, but those who falsely believe their Bitcoin transactions are anonymous and untraceable by the US government are encouraged to continue believing this.

Which wallet transfers came from and go to are saved in the blockchain, and determining who owns those wallets is usually fairly easy to figure out when transfers reconnect with out currency system. Wallets owned by criminals also have a history of being hacked.

Of course there was the recent delusion that crypto banks could pay interest on your crypto assets without the exchange lending out your crypto at a risk. What sort of children are these "sophisticated investors"?

Part of elite investor naivete toward Sam Bankman-Fried came from Peter Thiel's claim that taking Joe Bankman's Stanford Finance course is what gave him the idea to put his initial eBay founder's stock into a Roth IRA which became worth $5 billion tax-free. This gave Joe Bankman's son a lot of extra cache.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/sarahhansen/2021/06/24/peter-thiel-has-accumulated-5-billion-in-a-tax-free-roth-ira-designed-to-help-the-middle-class-save-for-retirement-according-to-new-report/?sh=3a3341b52627

[Elroy Jetson]

Us invented hacking.

Thomas C. Reed, a former Air Force secretary who was serving in the National Security Council at the time wrote, "In order to disrupt the Soviet gas supply, its hard currency earnings from the West, and the internal Russian economy, the pipeline software that was to run the pumps, turbines, and valves was programmed to go haywire, after a decent interval, to reset pump speeds and valve settings to produce pressures far beyond those acceptable to pipeline joints and welds."

"The result was the most monumental non-nuclear explosion and fire ever seen from space," he recalls, adding that U.S. satellites picked up the explosion. Reed said in an interview that the blast occurred in the summer of 1982.

"While there were no physical casualties from the pipeline explosion, there was significant damage to the Soviet economy," he writes. "Its ultimate bankruptcy, not a bloody battle or nuclear exchange, is what brought the Cold War to an end. In time the Soviets came to understand that they had been stealing bogus technology, but now what were they to do? By implication, every cell of the Soviet leviathan might be infected. They had no way of knowing which equipment was sound, which was bogus. All was suspect, which was the intended endgame for the entire operation."

Col. Vladimir Vetrov https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vladimir_Vetrov was the brilliant director of Directorate T which stole Western technology. He and his wife lived in France between 1965 and 1970 making friends in French intelligence. When his career was sidelined by communist party apparatchiks, from 1981 Vetrov started giving the French massive quantities of KGB intelligence to photocopy and return. This led to the US creating chips with malicious code for the Soviet Directorate T to steal. State of the art hacking prior to the internet.

Far left, young Vetrov in Paris. He was executed by the KGB, but not before he won the Cold War for the US.