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2019-05-14

WhatsApp Hacked

Facebooks Woes Just Won’t Go Away

Cristal M Clark

Love it or hate it the reality is with every Facebook product these days, you are dealing with a liability in terms of your information being sold, stolen and your device hacked in some fashion.

The increased issues with all of Facebook’s products has left users vowing to leave Facebook. WhatApp, Instagram and any other social media app owned by Facebook altogether, some are in fact boycotting Facebook, and all of its products altogether.

Politically, they are looking at fine after fine from a multitude of countries including the US which has done nothing to slow hacks, info being leaked, shared, and stolen. Even more, some want the company broken up.

The problem is that users do not have another option so Facebook and all of her other social media apps are going to continue on and continue to lose your information as well as leave you vulnerable to being hacked and your information stolen.

It was recently discovered that WhatsApp, which is owned by Facebook was hacked in a targeted attack, so naturally yesterday WhatsApp urged it’s 1.5 billion users to update their apps as an added precaution.

Facebook says that they discovered the vulnerability and attack earlier in May, and the attack targeted a “select number” of users and that it was orchestrated by “an advanced cyber-actor.” Then why have all 1.5 billion users update their apps? Some suspect the reason for urging all of WhatsApp users to update the app is simply because Facebook does not in fact, really know just how many users were caught up in this latest mess.

Hackers were able to remotely install surveillance software on phones and other devices using a major vulnerability, the surveillance software that was suspected to have been used was developed by the Israeli firm NSO Group- a cyber-arms dealer basically.

The attackers used WhatsApp’s voice calling function to ring a target’s device. Even if the call was not picked up, the surveillance software could be installed. According to Facebook, the call would often disappear from the device’s call log.

WhatsApp markets itself as a “secure” communications app because messages are end-to-end encrypted.

I guess that is not an accurate way to market itself any longer now is it?

A fix was rolled out yesterday however, the app store notes associated with the latest update are not explicit about the fix. Furthermore, no one knows for sure if simply updating the App is going to actually fix the issue or not.

Social media is a choice, you can choose to use it and assume you can control every aspect of that, the reality is as long as a tech giant is running it and not you, you will never be in control of your information being lost, stolen, sold, shared or of being hacked.

Cristal M Clark

2019-05-10

School Shooting –

Stem School Shooting, Highlands Ranch – Colorado

Cristal M Clark

Heading into another week in the year here, Colorado faced yet another school shooting on Tuesday, May 7, 2019, the shooting occurred at the charter school, STEM School in Highlands Ranch, a Denver suburb. Leaving 8 students injured and 1 dead.

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The shooters, both students, on 18-year-old boy and one 16-year-old who identifies as a male.

The shooting created a media frenzy of misinformation, attention seeking individuals came forward to share stories and the like, one live broadcast near the shooting featured a “worried” parent on the phone with her child asking how many kids were shot conveniently while the cameras were rolling, some news reports are labeling one of the shooters a bully, it is all in such poor taste, in utter disgust I refused to read anything about it until last night.

Students walked out of a vigil in protest of the politicians and politically driven speakers who turned the vigil into a very poorly thought out political stunt, geared towards getting whatever their personal politically message was out, but one rather disparaging item I kept seeing at several news sites were the comments.

Adults, making horrible, disparaging comments with regards to the shooters looks, lifestyles, calling them freaks, asking based off of the way they look, why they were not red flagged? Then getting into forum chat arguments amongst themselves over spanking kids, bully’s, the way kids these days dress, look or behave, calling each other names, demanding more gun laws, demanding less gun laws.

This is the behavior we pass along to our children for they are in fact mirrors of all of us. Where is the compassion or empathy for the two shooters? We lack the understanding of how or why they did what they did, who are we to really judge at this juncture?

Some would call me a bleeding heart, fair enough however I will always inevitably correct that, I am realist. The reality of the situation is that these two young individuals are suffering some mental health issues enough to have caused them to want to cause harm to others and until we understand fully what those issues are, we will not be able to stop school shootings regardless of how many gun laws we put on or off of the books. Words on paper are meaningless without a true understanding of the how and why.

What these two kids have done is completely inexcusable and wrong, however we have no inkling of what brought them to that point, what has caused them such mental trauma or were they just born that way?

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We cannot stop mass shootings until we have a full and complete understanding of each shooter in any given situation because without that understanding, we will never truly be able to see any warning signs, red flags or indication that a shooting may happen.

Hindsight is always 20/20 however, we could certainly do a much better job of being compassionate enough to gain a true understanding of why so as to prevent it from actually happening again in addition to no longer allowing the mainstream media to turn these events into a ratings tool, putting attention seeking one minute wonders up where the focus is on that particular individual who simply wanted that one minute of fame. If they had some sort of valuable input it would be another matter now wouldn’t it.

Cristal M Clark

2019-05-06

Truck Driver Facing Decades in Prison

Lakewood, Colorado

Cristal M Clark

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The truck driver 23-year old Rogel Lazaro Aguilera-Mederos, that crashed his semi on I-70 in Lakewood, Colorado that killed 4 people and seriously injured two others, was formally charged Friday with roughly 3 dozen felony counts and he could potentially face decades in prison.

Rogel has been charged with, 40 counts, including 6 counts of assault in the first degree and 4 counts of vehicular homicide, in the fiery April 25 crash on eastbound I-70 in Lakewood, Colorado. District Attorney Pete Weir said Rogel was “driving extremely fast and in a reckless manner” in an area where the speed limit for commercial vehicles is 45 mph. The semi Aguilera was driving was estimated to have been going “in excess of 85 miles an hour.”

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Many are saying that Rogel was behaving with extreme indifference and his attorney, well he believes that the charges are an overreach by the Jefferson County DA’s office and I would be lying if I said that I did not agree to some extent with Rogel’s attorney.

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After losing control of his rig coming off the mountain on I-70, the driver made an unfortunate series of bad decisions, he failed twice to utilize two, not one but two runaway truck ramps on his way down, swerved all over the road at one point almost running several cars off the road, had his rig in the incorrect gear, failed to attempt to drive into the ditch, the median and then subsequently, crashed into several stopped cars on the highway causing a major explosion that killed four individuals and injured dozens. He allegedly told police from a hospital after the crash that his brakes failed, and he didn’t want to exit the highway for fear of rolling his semitrailer, according to his arrest affidavit.

While I am all for justice, I have to take a step back here and call into the questions the other seemingly guilty parties beginning with the company that employed the driver. The company, Castellano 03 Trucking LLC, a Houston-based company has been cited in numerous occasions for various safety issues, one being faulty brakes as well as employing drivers that had not concept of the English language, the one language all of our road signage happens to be written in.

Another great question would be, how was it that Rogel managed to procure a CDL license given his tenacity for seemingly making every wrong decision a truck driver could possibly make?

While living in Florida for a few years, I had to endure a visit to the DMV where I witnessed Florida licensing drivers who did not read, write or understand the English Language. They allowed these drivers to take their written exams in their own native language and then handed them drivers licenses as if they were candy. Yes, I would agree for the most part during the actual driving part of the exam these drivers had memorized the road signage they came across however that is easy, what happens IRL?

That in and of itself is completely irresponsible on the part of any state doing this and that is just one tiny piece of the puzzle.

We need to look at where this young man obtained his drives license, his CDL, then the company that employed him. Yes, we can and should hold Rogel responsible however, other parties the ones who licensed him, who gave him a CDL, and those who employed him need to be held accountable as well, yet here in America we seem all to happy to throw the book at the easiest target rather than going after the entire lot, right?

Cristal M Clark

2019-04-30

Trumps #MeToo Moment Moment Via Penis Rub

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Donald Trump Gets Violated by Moby

Cristal M Clark

When you think about it and I mean really think about this, who doesn’t have a #MeToo story these days? In his new memoir, “Then It Fell Apart” 53-year old singer Moby admits to knob-touching President Donald Trump years ago prior to his being president at a party which was full of businessmen and real-estate developers, hence why Trump was in attendance.

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Knob-touching by the way is the act of a man removing his penis from his pants and brushing it up against something, generally another person and this case that other individual was none other than one Donald Trump.

In what seems like a dare however described in the memoir as, a pal of Moby’s “subtly suggested” that Moby knob-touch Trump during the party.

“Shit I said, realizing I now had to knob-touch Donald Trump, I drank a shot of vodka to brace myself, pulled my flaccid penis out of my pants, and casually walked past Trump, trying to brush the edge of his jacket with my penis. Luckily he didn’t seem to notice or even twitch.”

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Knowing Trump like we all do I am sure he was more than just “slightly” flattered by it even though he attempted to pretend that he did not notice.

As for an official comment Trump nor the White House has released anything but when he does, it will be through Twitter I would imagine, I mean quite honestly I am shocked he has yet to say anything knowing how much he loves attention and even more shocking is that Trump has not utilized this to capitalize on his very own #MeToo moment highlighting how he too has suffered at the hands of a man.

Cristal M Clark

2019-04-29

Austin Powers Style – Russia’s Military Trained Dolphins

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Russian Military Weaponizing Sea Life

Cristal M Clark

It’s starting too look a lot like an Austin Powers movie IRL these days, well that’s only after you realize Russia has actually taken the time to train whales to harass Norwegian ships. That’s right, a white whale in a harness is out and about harassing ships, although I am sure Russia is in the process of figuring out how to mount laser beams to sharks, for the time being they are using whales and other sea life.

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Fishermen and scientists say a white whale wearing a strange harness that harassed boats in the Arctic recently may have been trained by Russia’s military and by the way Russia has in the past acknowledged that they have in fact developed a training program for sea mammals at their major military base near the territory of key NATO member Norway.

Word on the wire is that video exists of a video of a beluga whale swimming alongside a fishing vessel and repeatedly nudging it.

The harness was removed from the animal by a team from the Norwegian Director of Fisheries. Jørgen Ree Wiig, from the agency, said that the harness had a logo on it reading, “Equipment of St. Petersburg.” He described it the harness as having canvas straps which appeared slightly worn and there was visible rust on the metal screws holding the apparatus together.

Here’s where we enter grey waters, nothing about the harness actually pointed to the whale having been trained by the Russian Military but because they have already told the world they do that sort of thing it’s obvious why scientists and the security communities believe the mammal was trained by the Russian Military.

Audun Rikardsen, a professor of marine biology at the Arctic University of Norway; “We know that in Russia they have had domestic whales in captivity and also that some of these have apparently been released, then they often seek out boats.”

Russia’s military has a history of trying to weaponize whales and other sea mammals, the Cold War-era Soviet Union had a program to train dolphins to help detect underwater weapons and alert their military trainers which ran until the 1990s.

Back in 2017, Russia’s TV Zvezda, which by the way is owned by the defense ministry in Moscow, aired a report on a Russian navy program to train beluga whales, seals and dolphins for similar purposes.

Russian government records show the defense ministry spent about $25,000 purchasing five bottle-nosed dolphins in 2016 from a sea life center in Moscow.

Over the past three years, President Vladimir Putin has reopened three former Soviet military bases along its vast Arctic coastline over a rather childish argument it is having with Nato so it’s is only natural to assume the offending whale was Russian military trained.

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Not sure about the rest of you here but I am waiting for Russia to release sharks with laser beams attached to them.

Cristal M Clark

2019-04-28

Snitch Parrot Rats Out Cops

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Piauí, Brazil

Cristal M Clark

Animal training is fascinating, we can train our dogs to fetch, help open doors, to see for us, even alert us to things like a fire or some other form of danger, pigeons are trained to carry letters, drugs and the like but a parrot well that’s another story altogether.

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It seems that in Brazil drug dealers trained their parrot to alert them in the event a police raid were to ever take place. According to Brazilian police who just so happened to take a parrot into custody Monday because the bird tried to warn two crack cocaine dealers about the officers raiding their house.

The parrot saw police and repeatedly yelled “Mamãe, polícia!” meaning “Mama, police!”

The police arrested the drug dealer and a teenage girl whom they believe trained the parrot to keep an eye out for law enforcement.

During the raid, officers found drugs and also took the snitch parrot into custody. Apparently since being taken into custody, the parrot has opted to remain silent rather than spill the goods on his loving drug dealer.

Cristal M Clark

2019-04-22

Snapchat Conman Busted

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Dubai Police Arrest Conman

Cristal M Clark

Dubai has one of the most successful police forces in the world closing just about every single case they come across with professionalism and a relentless pursuit of justice. I have long admired them for how meticulous they are.

That should, one would think give anyone pause when attempting to break the law while in Dubai but then again, we can always count on one moron to blatantly break the law.

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A man in Dubai created 5 fake Snapchat accounts with women’s names in an effort to trick young people into sending him money and gifts to him, which some 50 or so did.

The suspect had been committing fraud for 2 years, until a girl whose picture he had used for the accounts, reported the incident through an e-crime platform.

Developing programs to upload pictures, speak with victims, and then fostering romantic relationships by pretending to be a woman of course.

Brigadier Jamal al-Jallaf, director of Criminal Investigation Department at Dubai Police; “The man has a decent job and salary but he wanted to get more money and take advantage of social media platforms by posing as women on Snapchat to lure youngsters.”

Sometimes having a decent job just isn’t good enough I suppose, greed can be such a foolish friend.

The unnamed man is currently awaiting his hearing for the offenses. Unfortunately, this type of crime happens every day, everywhere once finds dating apps and websites, social media, it’s virtually everywhere and it’s not just men pretending to be women, it’s men befriending women pretending to be romantically interested just to get money and gifts.

It’s always a good idea to exercise some measure of caution when online and never send money or gifts to anyone in any online platform.

Cristal M Clark

2019-04-15

Ice Getting a Little Help from IC Thanks to Donald Trump

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United States Intelligence Community Helping Bust Illegals

Cristal M Clark

It appears that the White House made a pretty quiet move last year at some point according to David Glawe, DHS’ undersecretary for intelligence and analysis, who wrote a letter to Congress late last year. In his letter to Congress, David sheds new light on ICE’s relationship with the 17 U.S. government organizations that collect and analyze intelligence, known collectively as the Intelligence Community or IC.

Now some are voicing serious concerns over the matter after David detailed his work to reorganize the Office of Intelligence and Analysis (I&A), the component of DHS that belongs to the IC. David has prioritized this effort which has frustrated some career officials in the office. As part of that reorganization, the branch of the office that focused on domestic terrorism was eliminated. David said this change has not hindered DHS’ ability to prevent domestic terror attacks but multiple sources at DHS told The Daily Beast the change does in fact concern them.

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In the letter, David writes that cooperation between I&A and ICE has grown; “As a result of this realignment, as well as our ongoing efforts to integrate DHS field and functional intelligence activities into a fully synchronized and cohesive enterprise; I&A is providing improved and enhanced intelligence capabilities to DHS components, including ICE and CBP, as well as the interagency. These capabilities include collection, reporting, and analysis to support a DHS enterprise that fuses intelligence into operational functions, disciplines, and activities to inform actions that neutralize threats to the homeland. The cumulative impact of these efforts are more focused and integrated intelligence capabilities and products which meet customer requirements.”

We all know that when you read the word “Collection” that given our past history in this country with collection methods, that the word tends to generate concern among civil liberties advocates as well as others.

Still the same, in the world we live in today our information is collected, stolen and/or sold by ill-gotten groups and individuals at a rate much faster than the NSA can obtain then subsequently lose it. So, I am not entirely sure why anyone would be concerned over our own Government working together to collect intel on individuals seeking entry into the United States as well as those that are known to help those individuals.

The entire argument against it is quite frankly absurd, unless you live completely off the grid, a plethora of intel is readily available to just about anyone willing to pay for it.

Cristal M Clark