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Comment Re:I got 100$ for this (Score 1) 29

by echo123 (#65515020) Attached to: Google Nerfs Second Pixel Phone Battery This Year

I got a better deal. The Pixel 9a which normally sells for $499 is on sale right now for $249. With the $150 store credit and a trade-in of $80 on my Pixel 6a, I was able to upgrade to a new 9a for only $20. Now hopefully the 9a won't have battery issues.

I can't find this discount anywhere. Maybe it is over already.

Submission + - US Government Takes Down Major North Korean 'Remote IT Workers' Operation (techcrunch.com) 1

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: The U.S. Department of Justice announced on Monday that it had taken several enforcement actions against North Korea’s money-making operations, which rely on undercover remote IT workers inside American tech companies to raise funds for the regime’s nuclear weapons program, as well as to steal data and cryptocurrency. As part of the DOJ’s multi-state effort, the government announced the arrest and indictment of U.S. national Zhenxing “Danny” Wang, who allegedly ran a years-long fraud scheme from New Jersey to sneak remote North Korean IT workers inside U.S. tech companies. According to the indictment, the scheme generated more than $5 million in revenue for the North Korean regime. [...]

From 2021 until 2024, the co-conspirators allegedly impersonated more than 80 U.S. individuals to get remote jobs at more than 100 American companies, causing $3 million in damages due to legal fees, data breach remediation efforts, and more. The group is said to have run laptop farms inside the United States, which the North Korean IT workers could essentially use as proxies to hide their provenance, according to the DOJ. At times, they used hardware devices known as keyboard-video-mouse (KVM) switches, which allow one person to control multiple computers from a single keyboard and mouse. The group allegedly also ran shell companies inside the U.S. to make it seem like the North Korean IT workers were affiliated with legitimate local companies, and to receive money that would then be transferred abroad, the DOJ said.

The fraudulent scheme allegedly also involved the North Korean workers stealing sensitive data, such as source code, from the companies they were working for, such as from an unnamed California-based defense contractor “that develops artificial intelligence-powered equipment and technologies.”

Submission + - FBI Was Ordered to Destroy Evidence of China's 2020 Election Plot to Help Biden (justthenews.com)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: On Monday, FBI Director Kash Patel handed Congress an intelligence report exposing a Chinese plot to interfere in the 2020 election. The report details how Chinese operatives mass-produced fake U.S. driver’s licenses to flood the system with fraudulent mail-in ballots, which helped Joe Biden in the process. However, the intel wasn’t investigated, corroborated, or acted on. In fact, it was quietly pulled from intelligence agencies even as then-FBI Director Chris Wray told Congress there were “no known plots” of foreign interference.

The report was sent out on Aug. 24, 2020, but was abruptly recalled by the FBI with a vague excuse about needing to “re-interview” the source. But it didn’t stop there. The bureau didn’t just recall the report; it ordered its destruction.

According to the recall notice, intelligence agencies weren’t just asked to disregard the report — they were ordered to “destroy all copies” and “remove the original report from all computer holdings.” This wasn’t routine bureaucratic cleanup. It was a deliberate effort to wipe damning evidence from existence. The FBI didn’t just bury credible intelligence about Chinese election interference; it tried to scrub it from history.

According to the report, the Chinese government had secretly produced and exported a large batch of fraudulent U.S. driver’s licenses in late August 2020. The goal? To enable tens of thousands of ineligible Chinese nationals — particularly students and immigrants sympathetic to the Chinese Communist Party — to vote for Biden using mail-in ballots.

Comment Re:Can we just bomb the Kremlin already? (Score 2) 93

by echo123 (#65431228) Attached to: Proxy Services Feast On Ukraine's IP Address Exodus

And put Russia out of its Vladolf Putlery?

If that's really the goal, then we should stop dilly dallying and fully support the Ukrainians who have not only wiped out the Russian Black Sea fleet and done serious damage to the 12 mile land bridge to Crimea for both rail and automobiles, but have wiped out a large portion of Russia's strategic bomber fleet capable of launching nuclear missiles at us. The Ukrainians are doing all the fighting and dying for their own democracy, and ruining Russia in the process. Why can't we fully support them? Oh right, because our current admin is corrupt.

Thanks to the Ukrainian military, the Russian military has been seriously degraded, all while we sold off our old artillery stockpiles that were aging out anyway, not to mention the F-16s donated by our European allies.

Comment Re:Time to drop intel support (Score 1) 125

You're correct, and your most splendid, detailed, and technically informative comment is insightful.

Meanwhile upon reflection I just want to correct something I wrote earlier. I wrote, "People understand Apple, Microsoft, Linux, SAMSUNG", but what I meant to write, "People understand Apple, Microsoft, Google, SAMSUNG", (because of paid marketing).

I'm sorry, but as I get older I keep messing up like this.

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