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Beyond the sick and depraved gift of golden pagers the endless Israeli spying with boastful Trojan Horse analogies reminded me of another gift that kept on giving...

National Cryptologic Museum ~

On August 4, 1945, Soviet school children gave a carving of the Great Seal of the United States to U.S. Ambassador Averell Harriman. It hung in the ambassador's Moscow residential office until 1952 when the State Department discovered that it was 'bugged.'

The microphone hidden inside was passive and only activated when the Soviets wanted it to be. They shot radio waves from a van parked outside into the ambassador's office and could then detect the changes of the microphone's diaphragm inside the resonant cavity. When Soviets turned off the radio waves it was virtually impossible to detect the hidden 'bug.' The Soviets were able to eavesdrop on the U.S. ambassador's conversations for six years.

https://web.archive.org/web/20211201222351/https://www.nsa.gov/History/National-Cryptologic-Museum/Exhibits-Artifacts/Exhibit-View/Article/2718563/cold-war-great-seal/

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Yeah, I am aware of this story. Amazing ingenuity. The good old days of non-internet espionage.

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What people don’t seam to want understand is that all so called “smart devices” are spying gadgets and have nothing to do with being “smart”.

The acronym S.M.A.R.T. stands for Self Monitor Analyze and Reporting Technology. Spying gadgets designed to spy on and covertly report informations extrapolated by your multi core devices.

If you did not know, mobile phones have now days so much computing power to run their analysis and reporting that in comparison to a laptop computer of the first decade of the 2000, an average phone has between 20 and 100 times more computing power than the most of expensive computer you could buy then.

About the terrorist attack on Lebanon, it was the slimy criminal and reptilian look like Secretary General of the UN which defended israel after its terrorist attack.

You find a screen shot of his insane and criminal public declaration to the associated press in this article I wrote then.

https://mywisdom.substack.com/p/unisrealize.

As always, Thank you for sharing.

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This is one of the sickest, most horrifying societies in history. It must be dismantled ASAP and thousands must be charged with crimes against humanity. The Hague will need to build many more prison cells.

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this is horrifying, what depravity.

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Wow! Splendid research and compilation there, my friend -- I haven't nearly been properly caught up with the "ongoing" news amidst a flurry of history analysis and outside priorities to juggle, so the postings put out by you, Carina, The Dissident, The Straight Juice, and Michael Ginsburg are highly valued keeping people like myself up-to-date.

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This needs to be copied and shared as much as possible. Maybe we can get Ilhan Omar to read it into the Congressional Record.

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Brilliant piece of work.

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Thank you.

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Interesting article, thanks.

Small side bar: you use the term "pro-genocide Zionists", suggesting that there are "anti-genocide Zionists".

That does not make sense. A Zionist is someone who supports Zionism, which is a deeply racist political ideology that supports the illegitimate Zionist entity in West Asia.

Therefore, anybody who supports Zionism is by definition a pro-genocide Zionist, there is no middle way. And that applies to all Zionists in the world, irrespective of where they reside.

Only a non-Zionist/anti-Zionist can be anti-genocide.

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That's an egregious oversight from me. Thanks for pointing it out, Ngungu. Fixed it.

Although there was another way to read it probably which is why it didn't register when I wrote it.

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The Devil IsRael

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The Devil IsReal.

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And people believe that the Nazis were wicked and evil! This Israeli surveillance shit makes Orwell’s 1984 look like a children’s bedtime story '!

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And it makes the Nazis look like choir boys.

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Thank you.

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NSO Group Technologies is an Israeli cyber-intelligence firm primarily known for its proprietary Pegasus spyware, which is capable of remote ‘click attack’ surveillance of smartphones. It played a role in the murder of Saudi dissident Jamal Khashoggi and may even be hacked to explode.

Pegasus spyware is classified as a weapon by Israel and any export of the technology must be approved by the government.

NSO – not government clients – operates its spyware.

US litigation between WhatsApp and NSO reveals “the Israeli cyber weapons maker – and not its government customers – is the party that “installs and extracts” information from mobile phones targeted by the company’s hacking software.”

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2024/nov/14/nso-pegasus-spyware-whatsapp

Pegasus is compatible with iPhone and Android devices. It can be deployed remotely. Once deployed, it allows the client to access the target phone's data and sensors, including: location data, texts, emails, social media messages, files, camera, and microphone. The client-facing side of the tool is user friendly, and all that may be required (depending upon the case) of the client to begin deployment of Pegasus is to enter the target's phone number into the tool.

NSO Group was founded in 2010 by Niv Karmi, Omri Lavie, and Shalev Hulio.

NSO claims that it provides “authorised governments” with technology that helps them combat terror and crime. The company says that it deals with government clients only.

According to several reports, NSO Group spyware has been used to target human rights activists in various countries.

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