Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2017/11/03
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]1950's (?) - Living on the coast of Georgia -- Cuban missile crisis 2017 - Living on the coast of California -- Korean missile crisis I'm beginning to take this personally! Bob Adler www.robertadlerphotography.com *"Capturing Light One Frame At A Time"* On Fri, Nov 3, 2017 at 1:49 PM, Tina Manley <tmanley at gmail.com> wrote: > I agree 100%. We are doomed. > > Tina > > Sent from my iPhone > > > On Nov 3, 2017, at 7:35 PM, Howard L Ritter Jr <hlritter at twc.com> > > wrote: > > > > ENOUGH IS ENOUGH!!! I hereby DECLARE WAR ON N.KOREA!! Nuke Bombs & > Rockets start falling in 30 min. ENJOY HELL LIDDLE ROCKET MAN! > > > > > > Suppose the ?rogue employee? exiting Twitter had decided to post > something like that on @realDonaldTrump instead of just inactivating the > account. Kim might not have been panicked into a military response, but the > tension would have gone through the roof, and Trump?s credibility through > the floor. > > > > Just think about this for a minute: ONE low-level flunky at ONE private > company, able to impersonate the leader of the most powerful nation on > Earth with what sounds like one of the real thing?s intemperate, bellicose > eructations. The mind reels. > > > > When America has been saddled with a thin-skinned, easily provoked, > arrogant, intemperate juvenile delinquent with all the emotional stability > and self-control of a pimply 13-year-old feeling his first rush of > testosterone for its President and he connects both ends of his id?s > digestive tract raw and unfiltered to his Twitter feed that?s as accessible > internally as mine is, America?s misfortune could become the world?s. > > > > Do you think that no one outside the WH knows, or could discover, the > password associated with this account and how to spoof two-factor > authentication? All it might take is being able to do it one time. How much > would you be willing to bet on the absolute security of @realDonaldTrump? > The future of the world? I?d bet my dog (not really, Maizey!) that Kim?s or > Vlad?s or the ayatollahs? hackers could do it if they wished, which of > course they fervently do. For God?s sake, think about what they?re already > known to have gotten into! > > > > This is just intolerable. I want to start a change.org < > http://change.org/> petition calling on all social media to close the > accounts of all heads of state under any name that identifies them as such > or becomes recognizable as theirs. I think this mundane episode is a real > sleeper that could turn into something really really major, and even though > few might have thought about it before this, the social media should have. > I think it?s unconscionable that the muckety-mucks at Twitter didn?t take > every possible step to make Trump?s account accessible only at the highest > levels, and even then requiring two launch officers to turn their keys > simultaneously. > > > > Trump should fly into one of his patented rages and demand that > #failingTwitter put nuclear-level security on his account and should refuse > to use it until the NSA?s top spooks have reviewed every aspect of that > security. Of course, recognizing no interests whatever outside his own, he > didn?t and won?t. > > > > Mark my words. > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Leica Users Group. > > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >