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Direct from the mind of the guy who bought you the "I will kill you" presentation at DEF CON 23, is another mind bending, entertaining talk. This time it's bigger and badder than before.
Are you sick and tired of your government? Can't wait another 4 years for an election? Or do you want to be like the CIA and overthrow a government overseas for profit or fun? If you answered yes to one or more of these questions than[sic] this talk is for you! Why not create your own cyber mercenary unit and invoke a regime change to get the government you want installed? After all, if you want the job done right, sometimes you have to do it yourself.
Find out how over the last 60 years, governments and resource companies have been directly involved in architecting regime changes around world using clandestine mercenaries to ensure deniability. This has been achieved by destabilizing the ruling government, providing military equipment, assassinations, financing, training rebel groups and using government agencies like the CIA, Mossad and MI-5 or using foreign private mercenaries such as Executive Order and Sandline. Working with Simon Mann an elite ex SAS soldier turned coup architect who overthrew governments in Africa, Chris Rock will show you how mercenary coup tactics directly applied to digital mercenaries to cause regime changes as the next generation of "Cyber Dogs of War".
The YouTube video promises to teach you, among other things:
- How to gather intelligence to analyze a government's systemic weaknesses on financial, societal values and political climates that is leader- or country-specific to structure your attack.
- How to identify and prioritize government resources, infrastructure and commercial companies and how to use these compromised assets to stage the coup.
(Score: 3, Funny) by timbim on Tuesday September 20 2016, @08:03AM
I was born a suspect. I can walk down any street in America and women will clutch their purses tighter, hold onto their mace, lock their car doors. If I look up into the windows of the apartments I pass, I can see old ladies on the phone. They've already dialed 9-1- and are just waiting for me to do something wrong.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday September 20 2016, @08:11AM
Different Chris Rock! You mean the American comedian, not the Auzzie, um, "security professional" (if you know what I mean.).
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday September 20 2016, @10:55AM
It's not just you, timbim. This kind of fear seems to be the new norm in American society.
I, too, have heard the fervent locking of car doors as I pass by in parking lots. That's something rather new to me... I never remember such fear. People hanging onto their cellphones for dear life. Don't they have the foggiest idea of how fast those things can be rendered inoperable by a nearby jammer? If someone was really after them, I am sure they would come prepared with a cellphone jammer just for that contingency.
Think I'm kidding? Google it. These things can be as simple as a colpitts oscillator driven from the unfiltered output of the little SMPS chip designed for LED flashlights ( the unfiltered output of the switcher causes chaotic operation of the colpitts oscillator - exactly what's needed to make a mess in a comm band. )
People seem flat terrified. Seems straight out of the Bible, as in men trembling from the rustling of a leaf. ( Somewhere in Leviticus, I think... ).
And don't even try to get me started on what kinda crap they have inadvertantly loaded into their computer by as much as opening a Microsoft document or visiting a JavaScript laced website.... the worst being the sleeper cell, as it does not advertise its presence until activated.
I believe the people who have the most to fear is the people who live high on the hog off of other people's misery. They may think they have pulled a fast one by conniving ways to subordinate others, however those subordinated others now have their subordinator brightly lit on their radar. We live in a day where our phones, cars, and damn near everything else is controllable from people we have no idea who or where they are.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday September 20 2016, @01:15PM
They've already dialed 9-1- and are just waiting for me to do something wrong.
They're waiting for you to be executed by the cops:
http://www.rawstory.com/2016/09/dash-cam-video-shows-unarmed-black-man-with-hands-in-air-before-tulsa-police-shoot-him-dead/ [rawstory.com]
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/king-african-americans-ahmad-khan-rahami-treatment-article-1.2798518 [nydailynews.com]
You don't have to do anything wrong at all. Unless "walking away with hands in the air while black" is somehow a crime.