Just some observations of a humble guy from Bama over this WikiLeaks episode.
I can remember in 1994 arriving in an office and getting my desktop CPU which connected to the secret world and I read a hundred messages a month. I can also remember sitting there and pondering over this device where a guy could download hundreds of messages....save them to a hard drive, and then walk out of the building with them. Something wasn't right.
I can remember around 1999 when I got a new secret desktop CPU and the kid installing it had an external hard drive which clipped to the old with a USB cable....and thinking the only thing keeping me from downloading thousands of classified documents was my integrity.
Around 2004, I can remember having a technician with an issue with a server and RAID....having a massive amount of mapping data which needed to move 300 feet to a new server and RAID. Gathering his statistics...if we used the base LAN...it would have taken an entire month to move all the data from one system to another. By using a massive gigabyte hard drive....we could back up the data in one night, and walk 300 feet to upload in another evening. I kept thinking the only thing keeping me from tens of thousands of documents onto a drive like this and walking out.....was my integrity.
So here we are...some punk-ass kid from the Army....got upset about the unfairness of life and was determined to get even. Out of a million idiots who had privileges and access over the past fifteen years....here was the one idiot who flipped. He wasn't even going to the Russians, the Chinese, the Libyans, the Cubans or the Jersey mafia....he wanted to find some dimwits with a pro-piracy mentality who run a comical vast network.
The kid turned to WikiLeaks...who is commanded and solely run by "The Julian". Any suggest for an alternate route or scheme with the organization counter to "The Julian"....typically gets the players banned from the legendary Wiki team.
So the kid now sits in detention. He might get an hour with his attorney each day, but since there's no charges yet....there's nothing much to plan. I doubt that the Army wants to negotiate with the kid because they see this as a treason situation. They are looking at a case where the kid either gets the death penelity or 20,000 years in prison. The defense lawyer is having to pep up his guy because the kid's life is pretty much finished and there's nothing productive left. Even if he gets prison....it'll be maximum confinement because you can't trust him or his knowledge. He can't write books or ever say much of anything to his former friends or his relatives.
As for WikiLeaks? Its strange how each release comes, and then the news is forgotten within four to seven days. It's also strange that Amazon.Com was running his server services in the US....holding vast secret documents....and just discovered over the weekend. When confronted with this amazing news....the Amazon crew then turned off this amazing service and have yet to really say anything but grin at the camera while they did their little shuffle.
"The Julian"? Well....he's in hot water for hot sex and molestation charges. You see, Julian has a thing for acting like a CIA agent on the run. He arranges for his associates to hustle up "relatives" and then Julian gets invited to stay over at the relative's house for a week. Julian eats off their table....uses their internet....drinks their Budweiser....flushes their toilet....and hopefully if it's a female host....gets a bit of hot lusty sex. Julian often tells his tales of woe and the terrible chase of the CIA on his tail. Then a bit of wine is used on the female host....and then they fall over themselves to sleep with the James Bond-character that "The Julian" pretends to be. After a week or two....it's time to move on and fresh hot lusty ladies are hustled up for a special mission with "The Julian".
The Swedes want our guy because two women finally figured out "The Julian" and his games. Molestation in Sweden falls into this category which is the chief tactic of our Wiki-boy. Course, if caught....the Swedes can't give him more than two or three months in jail....my feeling. But once released....he can then be tracked and traced. So his running career comes to an end.
It's an interesting situation. One idiot gives up his life and does something that a million other people never considered with classified material. And the other idiot is playing out some James Bond-character routine in Sweden....shaken but not quiet yet stirred.
It's a simple world, but really screwed up.
Wednesday, 1 December 2010
The Dead May Ride
When you mess around with public transportation....you start to notice amusing things. Yesterday in Chicago....it came out that a audit revealed a bunch of dead folks were riding the public transportation system there.
The Regional Transportation Authority came to discover that a minimum of 160 senior free-ride cards were still being used after a declaration of death. One dead guy had accomplished over 1,400 free trips. Just in 2009....they came to realize around 25k rides by dead people. Naturally, this adds up. The audit estimates around $50k was used by the dead folks.
The hint here is that free-ride cards were taken by someone after the death and kept on being used.
But I sat and pondered over this, and eventually came to realize that we've already got dead folks voting....so it wouldn't be such a big deal for dead folks to ride the public transportation system in Chicago as well. Heck, there might even be dead folks buying property and even establishing credit cards for all I know.
How to repair this? The natural fix would be to require all dead folks to bring their card down to the main station and help to prevent relatives or associates from stealing it. I can already see some city council folks passing a law like this. The other fix would be to make the card a 30-day card and require it to be charged up or swapped up freely each month. I doubt that they'd be smart enough to force that issue because folks are often helpful to dead folks and their rights.
Just a moment of observation from a Bama guy.
The Regional Transportation Authority came to discover that a minimum of 160 senior free-ride cards were still being used after a declaration of death. One dead guy had accomplished over 1,400 free trips. Just in 2009....they came to realize around 25k rides by dead people. Naturally, this adds up. The audit estimates around $50k was used by the dead folks.
The hint here is that free-ride cards were taken by someone after the death and kept on being used.
But I sat and pondered over this, and eventually came to realize that we've already got dead folks voting....so it wouldn't be such a big deal for dead folks to ride the public transportation system in Chicago as well. Heck, there might even be dead folks buying property and even establishing credit cards for all I know.
How to repair this? The natural fix would be to require all dead folks to bring their card down to the main station and help to prevent relatives or associates from stealing it. I can already see some city council folks passing a law like this. The other fix would be to make the card a 30-day card and require it to be charged up or swapped up freely each month. I doubt that they'd be smart enough to force that issue because folks are often helpful to dead folks and their rights.
Just a moment of observation from a Bama guy.
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