tomder55
Apr 13, 2025, 03:08 AM
The headlines say that US and China are in a tit for tat tariff escalation .
The headlines say that Trump weakened US cyber security by abruptly dismissing the heads of the National Security Agency and U.S. Cyber Command.
it was the latest in a series of moves that have torn away at the country’s cyberdefenses just as they are confronting the most sophisticated and sustained attacks in the nation’s history.
Trump’s National Security Firings Come as He Weakens U.S. Cyberdefenses - The New York Times (https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/05/us/politics/trump-loomer-haugh-cyberattacks-elections.html)
uh no . The truth is that they were overseeing these critical agencies while the Chinese were attacking critical infrastructure right under their noses and were doing nothing about it ,
WSJ reports
Chinese officials acknowledged in a secret December meeting that Beijing was behind a widespread series of alarming cyberattacks on U.S. infrastructure, according to people familiar with the matter, underscoring how hostilities between the two superpowers are continuing to escalate.
The Chinese delegation linked years of intrusions into computer networks at U.S. ports, water utilities, airports and other targets, to increasing U.S. policy support for Taiwan, the people, who declined to be named, said.
The first-of-its-kind signal at a Geneva summit with the outgoing Biden administration startled American officials used to hearing their Chinese counterparts blame the campaign, which security researchers have dubbed Volt Typhoon, on a criminal outfit, or accuse the U.S. of having an overactive imagination.
This included hacks into critical American infrastructure including the electric grid ,nuclear energy ,drinking water ;and telecommunications .
Do you have a Verizon or ATT phone ? They were listening to every word you say. In fact there were at least 9 providers hacked .
Three More Telecom Providers Impacted In China-Linked Hacks: Report (https://www.crn.com/news/security/2025/three-more-telecom-providers-impacted-in-china-linked-hacks-report)
But the reporting on the firing is all about loyalty to Trump being the cause of the dismissals according to Dems in Congress ;egged on by crazy conspiracy theorist Laura Loomer ; even though the WSJ reports that the attacks represented "a historic counterintelligence failure"
Trump administration fires director of National Security Agency | CNN Politics (https://www.cnn.com/2025/04/03/politics/trump-administration-fires-director-national-security-agency/index.html)
And of course his dismissals of staff are all part of some irresponsible DOGE cuts .
Add this attack to the incidents of fentanyl deaths in the US ;a number that has exceeded a quarter million since 2018 ..... the over a million deaths in the US from the "accidental" lab release of covid .
And that they had someone operating an illegal bio lab inside the US .Jesalyn Harper, Reedley doing a routine compliance inspection in Reedley California discovered
"blood and other bodily fluids in Gatorade bottles labeled in Mandarin, samples of at least 20 potentially infectious agents including malaria, dengue fever, and COVID-19 — and a pungent odor from what turned out to be nearly 1,000 mice.
“I started to get nervous because it started to go into the realm of ‘This is a lab,’” she said. “And it's scary to think that something like this could be hidden in plain sight.”
Her discovery launched some 15 investigations across local, state and federal agencies — and sparked conspiracy theories that a Chinese biological weapons lab had taken root in rural America."
'Shock after shock': A visit to China's secret biolab in California (https://www.scrippsnews.com/us-news/shock-after-shock-a-visit-to-china-s-secret-biolab-in-california)
Yeah that's it ..... just another crazy conspiracy theory .
As mentioned on another post Trump is treating the tariffs on China different from other nations . I believe he wants to isolate China and as much as possible lock them out of the US market .The high rate should in theory open the door for other nations to claim China's market share. (EU are you listening ? )
The headlines say that Trump weakened US cyber security by abruptly dismissing the heads of the National Security Agency and U.S. Cyber Command.
it was the latest in a series of moves that have torn away at the country’s cyberdefenses just as they are confronting the most sophisticated and sustained attacks in the nation’s history.
Trump’s National Security Firings Come as He Weakens U.S. Cyberdefenses - The New York Times (https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/05/us/politics/trump-loomer-haugh-cyberattacks-elections.html)
uh no . The truth is that they were overseeing these critical agencies while the Chinese were attacking critical infrastructure right under their noses and were doing nothing about it ,
WSJ reports
Chinese officials acknowledged in a secret December meeting that Beijing was behind a widespread series of alarming cyberattacks on U.S. infrastructure, according to people familiar with the matter, underscoring how hostilities between the two superpowers are continuing to escalate.
The Chinese delegation linked years of intrusions into computer networks at U.S. ports, water utilities, airports and other targets, to increasing U.S. policy support for Taiwan, the people, who declined to be named, said.
The first-of-its-kind signal at a Geneva summit with the outgoing Biden administration startled American officials used to hearing their Chinese counterparts blame the campaign, which security researchers have dubbed Volt Typhoon, on a criminal outfit, or accuse the U.S. of having an overactive imagination.
This included hacks into critical American infrastructure including the electric grid ,nuclear energy ,drinking water ;and telecommunications .
Do you have a Verizon or ATT phone ? They were listening to every word you say. In fact there were at least 9 providers hacked .
Three More Telecom Providers Impacted In China-Linked Hacks: Report (https://www.crn.com/news/security/2025/three-more-telecom-providers-impacted-in-china-linked-hacks-report)
But the reporting on the firing is all about loyalty to Trump being the cause of the dismissals according to Dems in Congress ;egged on by crazy conspiracy theorist Laura Loomer ; even though the WSJ reports that the attacks represented "a historic counterintelligence failure"
Trump administration fires director of National Security Agency | CNN Politics (https://www.cnn.com/2025/04/03/politics/trump-administration-fires-director-national-security-agency/index.html)
And of course his dismissals of staff are all part of some irresponsible DOGE cuts .
Add this attack to the incidents of fentanyl deaths in the US ;a number that has exceeded a quarter million since 2018 ..... the over a million deaths in the US from the "accidental" lab release of covid .
And that they had someone operating an illegal bio lab inside the US .Jesalyn Harper, Reedley doing a routine compliance inspection in Reedley California discovered
"blood and other bodily fluids in Gatorade bottles labeled in Mandarin, samples of at least 20 potentially infectious agents including malaria, dengue fever, and COVID-19 — and a pungent odor from what turned out to be nearly 1,000 mice.
“I started to get nervous because it started to go into the realm of ‘This is a lab,’” she said. “And it's scary to think that something like this could be hidden in plain sight.”
Her discovery launched some 15 investigations across local, state and federal agencies — and sparked conspiracy theories that a Chinese biological weapons lab had taken root in rural America."
'Shock after shock': A visit to China's secret biolab in California (https://www.scrippsnews.com/us-news/shock-after-shock-a-visit-to-china-s-secret-biolab-in-california)
Yeah that's it ..... just another crazy conspiracy theory .
As mentioned on another post Trump is treating the tariffs on China different from other nations . I believe he wants to isolate China and as much as possible lock them out of the US market .The high rate should in theory open the door for other nations to claim China's market share. (EU are you listening ? )