СIА/US propaganda against Russians and Sochi is in full swing

[MikeWB]

Anyone else noticed the amount of bullshit and lies against Sochi? Holy crap... every story on shit CNN is about tеrrоrіѕtѕ, hotel conditions, fаg rights etc. Amazing!

[yankeedoodle]

It's absolutely sickening.   Makes you think they are hoping - planning? - for some sort of big explosion...you know, like TWA 800 that blew up the day before the opening ceremonies at the Atlanta Olympics, and that anybody would think was a terrorist attack, but...oops, after decades of flying...oops, fumes can build up in fuel tanks, and wires, etc....and, oops, well, thing go  BOOM.   Bullshit.

Then, of course, the Atlanta Olympics were plagued with troubles, and the Salt Lake City Olympics were riddled with corruption, so, let's bash the hell out of the Russians.

And, of course, the last time the Olympics were in Russia - the 1980 summer games in Moscow - there was a boycott. 

I'm sure Vlad would rather have the fuckers boycott Sochi, rather than have them show up bitching, and, even worse, TRYING TO HELP with security. 

Heard somewhere there were gunboats in the Black Sea...just in case.  Fucking degenerates just have to have all the attention for everything.

The anti-Russian propaganda is amazing.  If you remember the Cold War, when all Russian women were portrayed as fat old babuskas waiting in lines at empty bread shops, and now, all of a sudden,all of these tall thin drop-dead gorgeous women we see everywhere - on the tennis court, on the model stage, etc. - are all Russian women.

[Idaho Kid]

A great opportunity for the Jews and StoogeS of A to smear Russia.  I expect lots of problems and think "terrorism" is likely on the cards with make a few swastikas spray painted on Jewish sites and quenelling by guys with Craft International backpacks.

[maz]

I don't think anything is going to happen during the Olympics but some groups on both sides are clearly angling for a provacation. Something serious could be going on if you consider a few recurring patterns and themes.

About the persecution of gays it's clearly being used as a soft weapon by the West on more traditional nations.

Remeber Gay Girl In Damascus, which turned out to be a total hoax? That was clearly anti-Syrian propaganda to support an invasion.



A Gay Girl in Damascus blogger kidnapped: Take action!
http://feministing.com/2011/06/07/a-gay-girl-in-damascus-blogger-kidnapped-take-action/
http://www.nbcnews.com/id/43326770/ns/world_news-mideast_n_africa/

And the dogs being tortured and killed is also recycled propaganda; it was used right after 9/11 and for the lead up to the 2003 invasion of Iraq



CNN Shows Video of Chained Dog Being Gassed in Al-Quaeda Experiment
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/735204/posts
http://www.nydailynews.com/archives/news/al-qaeda-violence-video-killed-dogs-vowed-war-article-1.505663

[MikeWB]

Another one!

http://blog.erratasec.com/2014/02/that-nbc-story-100-fraudulent.html

That NBC story 100% fraudulent
By Robert Graham
Yesterday (Feb 5 2014) On February 4th, NBC News ran a story claiming that if you bring your mobile phone or laptop to the Sochi Olympics, it'll immediately be hacked the moment you turn it on. The story was fabricated. The technical details relate to going to the Olympics in cyberspace (visiting websites), not going to there in person and using their local WiFi.

The story shows Richard Engel "getting hacked" while in a cafe in Russia. It is wrong in every salient detail.

   1. They aren't in Sochi, but in Moscow, 1007 miles away.
   2. The "hack" happens because of the websites they visit (Olympic themed websites), not their physical location. The results would've been the same in America.
   3. The phone didn't "get" hacked; Richard Engel initiated the download of a hostile Android app onto his phone.
   4. ...and in order to download the Android app, Engel had to disable a lock that prevents such downloads -- something few users do [update].

I had expected the story to be about the situation with WiFi in Sochi, such as man-in-the-middle attacks inserting the Blackhole toolkit into web pages exploiting the latest Flash 0day. But the story was nothing of the sort.

Instead, the hacking in the story was due to the hostility of Olympic themed websites. The only increased danger from being in Russia is geolocation. Google uses your IP address to increase the of rank local sites, so you'll see more dodgy Russian sites in the results. You can disable this feature in your Google account settings.

Absolutely 0% of the story was about turning on a computer and connecting to a Sochi network. 100% of the story was about visiting websites remotely. Thus, the claim of the story that you'll get hacked immediately upon turning on your computers is fraudulent. The only thing that can be confirmed by the story is "don't let Richard Engel borrow your phone".

That leaves us with the same advice that we always give people:

   1. don't click on stuff
   2. patch your stuff (browser, Flash, PDF)
   3. get rid of the really bad stuff (Oracle's Java)
   4. don't click on stuff
   5. oh, and if you really are in Sochi, use VPN over the public WiFi

I gleaned these details from Kyle Wilhoit, the expert quoted in the story, and his Twitter feed. He's working on a blog with the full technical details. I'm sure it'll be great, with lots of details about what hackers can find with Maltego, the dangers of hostile websites, and so on -- the sort of great information totally lost in the nonsense that is the NBC story.


By the way, the easy way to figure out where journalists commit fraud is by watching for "passive voice". Journalists normally avoid passive voice, preferring stronger language. But, when they need to hide things, they passive voice to cover up details. Saying "was hacked" covers up the fact that Richard Engel hacked himself by knowingly downloading a hostile Android app. In other word, active voice wouldn't have worked, because it would have required identifying who put the virus on the phone. He couldn't report that a "hacker put the virus on the phone" because the hacker didn't, Richard Engel did. He couldn't very well have reported, in the active voice, "I downloaded the virus". Thus, the passive voice, "the phone was hacked", avoiding this inconvenient detail of who did what.