Hacker News: MisterWebz

New comment by MisterWebz in "Britain's GCHQ agency denies wiretapping Donald Trump"

MisterWebz — Fri, 17 Mar 2017 13:50:30 +0000

Here's another quote from the article:

Intelligence sources told The Telegraph that both Mr Spicer and General McMaster, the US National Security Adviser, have apologised over the claims. "The apology came direct from them," a source said.

It's based on an anonymous source.

Here's another quote from that same article:

"Three intelligence sources have informed Fox News that President Obama went outside the chain of command - he didn't use the NSA, he didn't use the CIA, he didn't use the FBI and he didn't use the Department of Justice - he used GCHQ."

So we're going to discard what several anonymous sources said, but we will believe what some other anonymous source said?

New comment by MisterWebz in "Britain's GCHQ agency denies wiretapping Donald Trump"

MisterWebz — Fri, 17 Mar 2017 12:53:15 +0000

The State Department has issued an apology to GCHQ via diplomatic channels.

Do you have a source for this?

New comment by MisterWebz in "Trump accuses Obama of wiretapping him before election"

MisterWebz — Sat, 04 Mar 2017 14:32:37 +0000

Apparently a FISA request was made to wiretap Trump or people from his campaign. It was denied the first time, but a second one which narrowed the scope of surveillance got accepted.

New comment by MisterWebz in "I'm Loyal to Nothing Except the Dream"

MisterWebz — Mon, 30 Jan 2017 10:39:49 +0000

Yet people seemed to be awfully calm when Obama was droning weddings. I'm not saying we should've put so much hate towards Obama as well, I'm saying we should put things into perspective.

New comment by MisterWebz in "I'm Loyal to Nothing Except the Dream"

MisterWebz — Mon, 30 Jan 2017 10:26:40 +0000

Bombing predominately Muslim countries, overthrowing governments and covert black sites where Muslims get tortured. These are things that are acceptable, but a 90-day ban on immigrants coming from war-torn countries, that's a step too far? Has everyone seriously lost their mind?

New comment by MisterWebz in "In Pennsylvania, Claims of a Rigged Election May Be Impossible to Disprove"

MisterWebz — Tue, 25 Oct 2016 20:03:43 +0000

After that, it didn't seem worth watching the videos because you have lost credibility in my eyes because I'm not sure you're arguing in good faith.

Well, that's pretty convenient isn't it. I don't think you're arguing in good faith either, so I'm going to ignore everything you're saying.

New comment by MisterWebz in "[dead]"

MisterWebz — Sun, 18 Sep 2016 12:09:15 +0000

Calling it a terrorist attack would drive Trump's poll numbers up.

New comment by MisterWebz in "Snowden: Hack of an NSA server is not unprecedented, publication of the take is"

MisterWebz — Tue, 16 Aug 2016 14:18:34 +0000

Would the CIA willingly do so much damage to the US? Surely there are other ways to sabotage the NSA instead of doing something as high profile as leaking NSA documents to the public. Besides, I think leaking classified documents of other intelligence agencies is something no agency does, because an escalation of this sort would be disastrous for both agencies involved.

New comment by MisterWebz in "Turkish Military’s Influence Rises Again"

MisterWebz — Fri, 15 Jul 2016 21:28:57 +0000

Turkey’s recent-to-the-job prime minister, Binali Yildirim, announced: “I am sure that we will return ties with Syria to normal, we need it. We normalized our relations with Israel and Russia. I’m sure we will go back to normal relations with Syria as well.”

The prime minister said this a couple of days ago. A huge shift in policy and now suddenly a coup. I'm guessing Erdogan saw the writing on the wall and tried to shift gears, but it seems the military went ahead with the coup anyway.

New comment by MisterWebz in "Washington Should Prepare for Saudi Arabia's Collapse"

MisterWebz — Sun, 21 Feb 2016 14:04:30 +0000

You're clearly not following the Syrian civil war very closely if you think Russia's the one acting irresponsibly.

New comment by MisterWebz in "My Year as a Pro-Russia Troll Magnet"

MisterWebz — Mon, 09 Nov 2015 15:48:04 +0000

Literally all your comments are about how China's bad and how it's in deep trouble. These comments span back more than 100 days. I'm not sure you should be the one calling other people trolls.

New comment by MisterWebz in "Exploitable vulnerabilities found in Kaspersky Anti-Virus"

MisterWebz — Tue, 22 Sep 2015 19:36:12 +0000

I'm suggesting a higher-up or someone else suggested Tavis target Kaspersky. I'm not suggesting Google execs all sat together and decided to destroy Kaspersky.

Is it that hard to believe that there are certain people that would like to dissuade Kaspersky from revealing further information about state-sponsored malware? I'm not even sure where this incredulity is coming from? Let's see you target an intelligence agency and see what happens.

New comment by MisterWebz in "Exploitable vulnerabilities found in Kaspersky Anti-Virus"

MisterWebz — Tue, 22 Sep 2015 18:54:45 +0000

Into whose code? He found several bugs and is now writing about it. I'm not sure if I understand your question?

New comment by MisterWebz in "Exploitable vulnerabilities found in Kaspersky Anti-Virus"

MisterWebz — Tue, 22 Sep 2015 18:33:02 +0000

They've been gunning for Kaspersky ever since Kaspersky released information about state-sponsored malware.

New comment by MisterWebz in "Russian antivirus firm faked malware to harm rivals, say ex-employees"

MisterWebz — Fri, 14 Aug 2015 16:24:22 +0000

If the information turns out to be false then the anonymous sources get blamed, not the author.

New comment by MisterWebz in "Germany Deserved Debt Relief, Greece Doesn't"

MisterWebz — Thu, 09 Jul 2015 16:59:18 +0000

Does Syriza actually want debt relief? Judging from Varoufakis' interviews, he wants to implement policies that would foster economic growth, which would allow Greece to slowly pay back its debts. He claims the EU's proposals would further cripple the economy which would mean they will never be able to pay back its debt.

So it's not necessarily about debt relief, it's about which policies are most suitable for Greece.

New comment by MisterWebz in "We apologize"

MisterWebz — Mon, 06 Jul 2015 19:35:18 +0000

A bunch of misogynists who are upset that a female employee was fired. Right.

New comment by MisterWebz in "New WikiLeaks Documents Reveal NSA Spied on French Companies"

MisterWebz — Mon, 29 Jun 2015 21:01:40 +0000

> "To exploit foreign signals intelligence for the benefit of the USA"

Does it benefit the average U.S. citizen? If not, then how can you say NSA does this for the benefit of the USA. And if it does, then how exactly does a U.S. citizen benefit from this? Making a bunch of rich people even richer doesn't seem all that beneficial to me.

New comment by MisterWebz in "Greek Banks, Stock Exchange to Remain Closed From Monday"

MisterWebz — Sun, 28 Jun 2015 18:40:15 +0000

...more of the gap should be filled with cuts to benefits as opposed to increases in taxes.

What's their reasoning behind this?

New comment by MisterWebz in "Greek PM calls referendum on bailout terms"

MisterWebz — Sat, 27 Jun 2015 09:53:09 +0000

So letting the public decide their own fate is now called "shifting blame"?