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Subject: [Leica] Did the world dodge a bullet?
From: rgacpa at gmail.com (Robert Adler)
Date: Fri, 3 Nov 2017 14:48:54 -1000
References: <98497348-57CF-440A-BBB0-2B7F9882CD1A@twc.com> <78EE19E3-8782-4D19-85C0-46A9A7FACE27@gmail.com>

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.
> >
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Replies: Reply from imra at iol.ie (Douglas Barry) ([Leica] Did the world dodge a bullet?)
Reply from red735i at verizon.net (Frank Filippone) ([Leica] Did the world dodge a bullet?)
In reply to: Message from hlritter at twc.com (Howard L Ritter Jr) ([Leica] Did the world dodge a bullet?)
Message from tmanley at gmail.com (Tina Manley) ([Leica] Did the world dodge a bullet?)