Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2017/11/04
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Living on the east coast of Ireland in 2017 with Trumpadonian Bluster Bombs & Little Kim (Let the) Jong Un in - we're in range of both. NK is only 8,800 kilometres (and a North Korean fat finger aiming error) away - damn great circle routes. Douglas On 04/11/2017 00:48, Robert Adler wrote: > 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 >> > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information