Noticed the daily pile of “cybersecurity” scams in email, illustrating the amateur small-scale version.
Your account’s security has been compromised!!!! Your computer has (32) viruses!!!
Then noticed some headlines illustrating the professional large-scale version.
Russian hackers compromise utility grid!!!!
Then heard my usual bedtime playlist with the usual 1950s propaganda about the need to defend ourselves against Soviet threats.
It’s all the same. At all times and at all scales, the ONLY threat to our real security is the US government. We use fake Russian or Chinese or RadicalIslamic or “virus” threats to justify massive torturous tyranny here, and to justify massive bombing and murder overseas.
None of the threats are real.
At the small scale, everything is hacked. There’s no such thing as cybersecurity. You can prevent REAL damage by being careful and NOT RESPONDING to any of the fake threats. Nobody is actually harmed by passive hacking.
At the large scale, nothing is hacked. Russia has NEVER attacked us. Not once. During the first Deepstate War and the second Deepstate War and the third Virus War, all of the genuine “attacks” were done by our own government, against Russia, Cuba, Iraq, Persia, Syria, Ukraine, and our own people. Most of the “attacks” touted in propaganda are purely imaginary.
Russia always has spies. Every large country spies on its enemies, and Russia has a REAL JUSTIFIED REASON for spying on us. We are always preparing a new attack or actually attacking. We never stop, except during our brief lucid moment from 1920 to 1945. Real Russian spies were extremely passive and careful because they UNDERSTOOD the sadistic nature of our Deepstate.
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**Stupid nerdy footnote: Why do spam emails always put numbers in parentheses? Real warnings aren’t written that way. Some contracts use parens to avoid confusion.
We agree to construct on your property:
Fifty (50) foundation piers
One (1) cement slab, thirty-five (35) feet wide.
But that’s a peculiar and obsolete usage. The only reason I can imagine is convenient Javascript code for substituting a random number in each new email. JS strings are hard to manipulate. You can’t use the printf style, which is easier to read and debug:
printf("Your computer has %3d viruses and %3d hacks!!!", NumViruses, NumHacks);
You have to join each element like this:
spamMessage="Your computer has " + NumViruses + " viruses and " + NumHacks + " hacks!!!";
It might be easier to format and space the sequence if you surround the numbers with parens?
spamMessage="Your computer has (" + NumViruses + ") viruses and (" + NumHacks + ") hacks!!!";
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