"It's done": realities of thehyper-transparent spy world
BY AKRAINER
WEDNESDAY, NOV 02, 2022 - 8:08
On Monday, 26 September 2022 someone blewup the Nord Stream pipeline system, built at Germany’s request, to deliverNatural Gas from Russia to Germany. For a number of reasons, some of which Iarticulated in the article, “Britain’s Secret Diplomacy and theEuropean Wars,” I thought that Great Britain was probably the mastermind and one of the perpetrators behind the attacks. Again, not any legitimate British government organization, but some deep state networks within the British military and structures. I expressed this view in the podcast with Tom Luongo, published five days after the attacks.
This week, Russia’s Foreign Ministry and theMinistry of Defence revealed that Britain’s (then) PM Liz Truss senta message to the US State Secretary Antony Blinken, saying
“It’s done.”
The message was sent only one minute after thepipelines were destroyed. Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova demandedan explanation from the British government.
Not surprisingly, the allegations were rejected on both sides of the Atlantic, with the UK Ministry of Defence claiming that the Russians were “peddling false claims on an epic scale.” Of course they are: we all know that we in the west are the good guys and that the Russians are evil, so that should settle the issue. Or maybe not. If you’re not so sure about the western narrative anymore, please continue reading.
Demystifying cyber-intelligence
From the perspective of an average newsflowconsumer, it may seem weird that the Russians could hack into Liz Truss’ textmessages, but the German-Finnish tech entrepreneur Kim Dotcom weighedin to demystify the world of cyber intelligence. In a tweet on 30 Oct, hewrote, “How do the Russians know that the UK blew up the North Streampipelines in partnership with the US? Because @trussliz used her iPhone tosend a message to @SecBlinken saying ‘It’s done’ a minute after thepipeline blew up and before anybody else knew? iCloud admin access rocks!”
In yesterday’s thread, Dotcom elaborated further, adding some credibility to his viewpoint:
“Govt secrets are onlysecret to ordinary people, not to nations engaged in the global cyberwar. Theleaders of the top 20 spy nations know who blew up the Nord Stream pipeline.Let me explain the reality of the hyper transparent spy world we’re living in today.
“Top secret” meansnothing to the top spy agencies in the world. Secrecy exists to keep citizensin the dark. Russia and China know exactly who blew up the Nord Streampipelines because in todays world it’s impossible for an operation likethat to leave no trace. Let me explain:
All big tech databasesare backdoored by every major spy agency. Every smartphone is an open mic tothem. Every computer that is connected to the net is wide open. All major chipsand most hardware is trojanized. All the data that one spy agency collects isstolen by the others.
All leaders of nationsare targeted by spy tech and not one of them, not even the US President, isn’tspied on successfully 24/7 by multiple foreign and domestic agencies. Even theencrypted devices that spy agencies give to their leaders are backdoored.That’s the reality.
Occasional privateconversations in zero tech environments are possible but the rare exception.Something like Nord Stream attack involves hundreds of people from military,agencies and the leadership of multiple countries. Impossible not to have aweak link in such a scenario.
The perpetrators ofmajor events understand that their adversaries know exactly who did it andit’s a game they play against each other at the expense of ordinary people whobecome victims of stupid dick swinging contests. It’s a secret war that hasbeen going on for decades.
I used to be a hacker,turned data security consultant, hired the top hackers in the world, was paidby Fortune 500 companies to hack them. We never had any client we didn’thack successfully. That’s the truth. There’s no effective data security atall. Everything is wide open.
Spy agencies with billiondollar budgets have coders in all leading tech companies implementingbackdoors. It’s impossible to keep them secret. Competing agencies, cybercriminals and security analysts find them. That’s why you constantly have toinstall new security patches.
I understand exactly howall of this works and when the NSA cooperated with their New Zealand partneragency GCSB to spy on my devices (in a copyright case) I caught them, exposedthem, took them to court, forced a change of the law and the Prime Minister hadto apologize to me.
When I’m sharing spystuff with you I’m not wasting your time like the 50 American spy chiefs whogot their presstitutes to tell you lies about the Hunter Biden laptop beingRussian disinformation or that Russia hacked the DNC and gave the @HillaryClinton data to Wikileaks.”
Another element corroborating the idea thatthe Russians successfully hacked top British officials was last month’s abrupt departure of the UK Defence Minister Ben Wallace to Washington. Wallace’s flight to Washington was an unplanned trip, arranged hastily at the last moment. Apparently, the British had discovered that their communications were compromised by Russian intelligence at the time when they went public with warnings about a planned dirty-bomb false flag attack in Ukraine. Discussing things over “secure” telephone lines was out of the question.
So, supposing that the UK’s deep state andspecial forces were involved in the Nord Stream attacks, this raisesfurther questions. In particular, why did the Russians choose to go publicwith those allegations now – they must have had Truss’ texts for weeks? Also,given that Putin’s spokesman Dmitry Peskov suggested that theattacks cannot go unanswered, what measures will Russia take inretaliation against the UK? For the war-pigs in the west, the greatestgift Russia could give them at this time would be some kind of a pretext tolaunch into a full-scale, united war of NATO against Russia. So I doubt thatwe’ll see that scenario play out, but then again I was also wrong when Ithought that Russia wouldn’t invade Ukraine back in February. Time will telland we’ll find out soon enough.
The futility of protecting our own secrecy
I wanted to point out two more takeaways fromKim Dotcom’s thread above. First, it puts into perspective ourindividual efforts to keep our communications private and confidential. Manyyears ago I entirely gave up on trying to keep my communications secret. UseProton mail, they said. Use double encryption, they said. Don’t use gmail, theysaid. Don’t use WhatsApp, don’t talk over Zoom, etc… But even while not knowingwhat Kim Dotcom and other hackers know, I’m sufficiently tech-literate to knowthat if someone really wanted to hack into my stuff, they probably could, andall attempts to keep stuff secret would likely be futile.
Perhaps our best collective defense is tocommunicate openly and speak our thought crimes freely, swamp the powers thatbe with the sheer volume of them right in the open, and simply claim ourfreedom of expression by our everyday conduct.
Megaupload: a story worth remembering…
Second: some years ago I looked into KimDotcom’s business model with his Megaupload venture. The details of ithave meanwhile receded into the memory fog, but Megaupload was such aphenomenally compelling and revolutionary concept that if it was left to thefree markets, it would have completely upended the whole publishing, arts andentertainment industry, probably to the greatest benefit of both contentproducers and consumers. It was also legal. But as it happened, the industryand western intelligence apparatus co-opted New Zealand’s law enforcementagencies and illegally and forcefully destroyed Megaupload.
However,the idea was hatched and no force can uninvent it. It’s a story worthremembering and researching. Ultimately, its time will come.
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