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The_Rob
Feb 1, 2007

Blah blah blah blah!!
the fact that the pentagon is one of the most secure and watched places in the us has only one camera angle of “the plane” that is barely visible really should be a red flag.

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Delta-Wye
Sep 29, 2005

Delta-Wye posted:

keeping in mind its the '9/11 is real and here is how it goes down, as published in march 2001' episode,

read this:
https://www.fudzilla.com/news/pc-hardware/32097-expert-claims-nsa-has-backdoors-in-intel-amd-processors (as a random example of very persistent rumors)

watch this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tTzZtxUcncg&t=2578s

computers, how do they work? :iiam:

i don't know where else to post this, so I'm going to interrupt plane chat with this. it used to keep me up at night, i think it's fascinating and a bit scary.

every intel processor (at least used to be, idk about more recent architectures) have a hidden mode called system management mode. other arch vendors like amd have introduced smm as well. if you can trick the processor into dropping into smm, you can do a plethora of things. read memory, interact with peripherals, suck up CPU cycles doing something nefarious, whatever. when you're done you release the processor back into normal mode and there is 0 measurable trace that anything happened. it is 100% completely unobservable by anything (baremetal hypervisors, operating systems, antivirus). its simply jawdropping to me that this is in loving everything and noone really has any idea. its not trivial to trigger and has limited functionality but that is almost a feature in this usecase. the only way to know you have a persistent smm virus in your hdd firmware or somewhere else equally insidious is to constantly and paranoidly check some external wall clock reference time and see if you've executed the right number of instructions over time. its a bloody mess, basically.

this feature has been around forever, but i was seeing published stuff starting in maybe the late 00's and while there are now publicly known nsa attack vectors using this avenue, they weren't published until the twenty teens.

literally every intel processor has a huge ol' backdoor built into it and i didn't realize it at the time, but i first heard about it on a xfiles spinoff pilot :psyduck:

Delta-Wye has issued a correction as of 08:16 on May 6, 2021

Riot Bimbo
Dec 28, 2006


Look, all I'm saying is that Frank Herbert was right

Zodium
Jun 19, 2004

Riot Bimbo posted:

Look, all I'm saying is that Frank Herbert was right

The Atomic Man-Boy
Jul 23, 2007

Not sure if it’s processor related, but a bunch of people in the area of the Ferguson protests had their phones and phone cameras turned on remotely, even while powered off.

nomad2020
Jan 30, 2007

You ever notice your computer do something weird? The screen will blink, maybe WoW takes a bit longer to load than you're used to?

RIP

smarxist
Jul 26, 2018

by Fluffdaddy

The_Rob posted:

the fact that the pentagon is one of the most secure and watched places in the us has only one camera angle of “the plane” that is barely visible really should be a red flag.

there's a lot of things people think is true about the "omnipresent US surveillance state" that they never refute because it serves their image/goals

i dunno the full extent of the fuckery that happened on 9/11, but once you try to expand the attack beyond the hijackers and include US actor assistance and/or faked flights with no passengers or whatever other nonsense, you grow the whole operation to something beyond feasibly existing without collapsing prior or being immediately exposed thereafter

Mola Yam
Jun 18, 2004

Kali Ma Shakti de!
just lol if you think that literally everything you do on a device with a microchip isn't recorded somewhere, at the very least by the usa and china

animist
Aug 28, 2018

Mola Yam posted:

just lol if you think that literally everything you do on a device with a microchip isn't recorded somewhere, at the very least by the usa and china

tbh I suspect most of my personal data lives in excel spreadsheets getting passed between data vendors advertisers like illicit porn mags

Proust Malone
Apr 4, 2008

animist posted:

tbh I suspect most of my personal data lives in excel spreadsheets getting passed between data vendors advertisers like illicit porn mags

Lol remember when we found out about a project called “total information awareness” being run by Iran contra convict John poindexter and it had to drop its logo and change its name because it was just a little too on the nose?

Stevie Lee
Oct 8, 2007

nomad2020 posted:

You ever notice your computer do something weird? The screen will blink, maybe WoW takes a bit longer to load than you're used to?

RIP

i have a command prompt that opens on my laptop about once every couple hours for a split second and i have no idea what it's doing. fuckin lenovo!!

nomad2020
Jan 30, 2007

Had to double check dates, if for some reason you're still using a Lenovo laptop shipped around the end of '14 you might have Spyware and a bad cert in your BIOS.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superfish

Not really conspiracy level, just normal fuckery.

Atrocious Joe
Sep 2, 2011

Real hurthling! posted:

theres no way that a barely trained pilot flying a commercial aircraft for the first time could hit the pentagon at the angle he did.
the planes flight heading and where it hit the building means that it flew passed the building and executed a perfect descending roll for a full 180 leveling the plane just as the wing would have hit the street and crash into the wall of the pentagon parallel to the ground.

good shot kid that was one in a million

what if God was on their side

MLSM
Apr 3, 2021

by Azathoth

Delta-Wye posted:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cwmRpdyriII

lol literally a tv show about a group of conspiracy nerds finding out 9/11 was at its center MIC-elements driving planes into the WTC to drive arms sales via forever wars against tinpot dictators because the cold war was over.

just making the episode is taking a victory lap, publishing it on 3/4/01 is really dunking on everyone.

:stare:

Didn’t 9/11 get the X-Files cancelled, too?

Tubgoat
Jun 30, 2013

by sebmojo

Demon Semen posted:

:stare:

Didn’t 9/11 get the X-Files cancelled, too?

No? It limped along but was garbage once they killed off The Lone Gunmen.

Pepperoneedy
Apr 27, 2007

Rockin' it



https://twitter.com/NoahShachtman/status/1390472663500562432

Delta-Wye
Sep 29, 2005
His lifestyle is very different and kind of intriguing! Many people are saying it.

Mister Speaker
May 8, 2007

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AND HEAR

Atrocious Joe posted:

what if God was on their side

Gods_Butthole
Aug 9, 2020
Probation
Can't post for 8 years!

Atrocious Joe posted:

God was on their side

StratGoatCom
Aug 6, 2019

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Worth remembering that while the cabal are monsters, they're also real stupid.

Tubgoat
Jun 30, 2013

by sebmojo

StratGoatCom posted:

Worth remembering that while the cabal are monsters, they're also real stupid.
Doesn't matter, they can disappear anyone who cares enough to do anything.

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Tubgoat posted:

Doesn't matter, they can disappear anyone who cares enough to do anything.

Having power and using it effectively are different things.

Happy Thread
Jul 10, 2005

by Fluffdaddy
Plaster Town Cop
Limited hangout. What if Melinda to begin with came from the IC, which itself could have helped grease the monopolistic wheels that began Bill's meteoric rise to the top without him even knowing it at first. Bill's entire career had her there to support it. Wasn't it a common spook trick to capture up and comers that way?

Happy Thread
Jul 10, 2005

by Fluffdaddy
Plaster Town Cop
How sanitized can a hangout get? Someone took the word "limited" way too seriously

quote:

One associate in the technology world who’s attended the same events as Epstein, including a TED conference in Monterey, California, was surprised Gates had considered cultivating philanthropic ties with the late peadophile.

“I can’t make the claim that so many are claiming,” the person told The Daily Beast on the condition of anonymity, referring to people in Epstein’s orbit who’ve said they had no suspicions of Epstein’s abuse. “If you ask Bill Gates, he’ll say, ‘Oh I had absolutely no idea he wasn’t up to anything of the highest moral character.’ But I seriously doubted Epstein’s moral character.”

“The people around him,” the person added, referring to Epstein, “had a varying spectrum of what they knew and what they didn’t know and how they rationalized it.”

taqueso
Mar 8, 2004


:911:
:wookie: :thermidor: :wookie:
:dehumanize:

:pirate::hf::tinfoil:

Bill's meteoric rise came from his sex appeal and ability to jump over an office chair, not some woman's manipulations.

LIVE AMMO COSPLAY
Feb 3, 2006

Happy Thread posted:

How sanitized can a hangout get? Someone took the word "limited" way too seriously

They rationalized it with a six word manifesto:

- More money for me
- gently caress kids

Wraith of J.O.I.
Jan 25, 2012


god drat that's a lot of microsoft ties to epstein

Tubgoat
Jun 30, 2013

by sebmojo
I always thought Bill Gates's mom eating rear end and Bill Gates stealing computer time was how Bill made it to monopoly.
By always, I mean the day I heard all three episodes of Grubstakers about him.

Digiwizzard
Dec 23, 2003


Pork Pro
The thing 9/11 conspiracies I never understand is the discrepancy between hyper competent plotters who could make sure things are covered up for decades in service to a plan that's completely retarded and nonsensical.

If they meticulously organised every detail behind the scenes and dripfeed all the information to the public then why would you not just say that Iraq conclusively did it instead of complicating things with a Saudi failson. Why the endless stumbling and dithering and invention of WMD bullshit. You can say "oh they're just very incompetent" but if they're that incompetent surely something would have leaked by now.

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Homora Gaykemi
Apr 30, 2020

by Fluffdaddy

Digiwizzard posted:

The thing 9/11 conspiracies I never understand is the discrepancy between hyper competent plotters who could make sure things are covered up for decades in service to a plan that's completely retarded and nonsensical.

If they meticulously organised every detail behind the scenes and dripfeed all the information to the public then why would you not just say that Iraq conclusively did it instead of complicating things with a Saudi failson. Why the endless stumbling and dithering and invention of WMD bullshit. You can say "oh they're just very incompetent" but if they're that incompetent surely something would have leaked by now.

that's why i just believe that america knew it was coming and let it happen, rather than that they did it themselves

Tubgoat
Jun 30, 2013

by sebmojo

Homora Gaykemi posted:

that's why i just believe that america knew it was coming and let it happen, rather than that they did it themselves
Reasonably sure the US did nothing short of facilitate it, there were A LOT of security personnel doing their jobs correctly who were told to back the gently caress away from the red-flag-draped individuals.

LIVE AMMO COSPLAY
Feb 3, 2006

Homora Gaykemi posted:

that's why i just believe that america knew it was coming and let it happen, rather than that they did it themselves

The cia knew it was coming and tipped off somebody in government, possibly the son of a former director.

my bony fealty
Oct 1, 2008

Homora Gaykemi posted:

that's why i just believe that america knew it was coming and let it happen, rather than that they did it themselves

I recall reading The Looming Tower that it felt like a story designed to give plausible cover for a much more horrible truth

it's much easier to digest that 9/11 was just a coincidence of severe incompetence and alphabet boy dick swinging than the alternative, you know?

Horizon Burning
Oct 23, 2019
:discourse:
weren't there a lot of people connected with the WTC and/or anthrax attacks who died via weird circumstances over the months after? i thought i read something a while back about how one of the eyewitneeses (Jennings?) vanished and so did his family? someone who met the highjackers ended up poisoned? and i think the nanny of the bush family?

V. Illych L.
Apr 11, 2008

ASK ME ABOUT LUMBER

a lot of people die in weird circumstances period, so that mode of analysis is pretty iffy imo

Hooplah
Jul 15, 2006


seriously? because coincidences exist we shouldn't consider this set of coincidences which all seem to serve a specific motive? that's pretty intellectually lazy

no one's talking about the burden of proof here because we know that's not possible given the circumstances. the only way to get some semblance of a narrative is through this sort of free association of events and coincidences. everything surrounding stuff like 9/11 and anthrax is a jumbled mess of competing and conflicting narratives, i'd say intentionally so. that interpretation fits nicely into the thesis that there's no grand nefarious plans or specific deep state actors orchestrating everything, just the individual actions of a bunch of self serving oligarchs. that still leaves plenty of room for monstrously evil deeds and huge sprawling coverups, including assassination campaigns of journalists and eyewitnesses.

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Aug 6, 2019

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The null hypothesis that the CIA created a monster that they lost control of again perfectly explains 9/11.

Mola Yam
Jun 18, 2004

Kali Ma Shakti de!
you could do one of those iceberg diagrams just with iterations of 9/11 conspiracies

Riot Bimbo
Dec 28, 2006


It really doesn't explain what legitimately looks like cleanup of loose threads during and after the attack and some other stuff. It isnt an implausible official story, I personally dont disbelieve it entirely, but theres a lot of weird loving poo poo that's not just meme tier idiocy going on, to a degree that if, somehow, the truth that it was a domestic plot came to light, I'd be ready to accept it.

At the end of the day, "figuring this stuff out" is alienating as hell, and encourages bad habits with regards to training a brain to detect eal patterns versus false positives, which feels like a precarious path for someone with plenty of mental stress already, so i work pretty hard to step back and limit my mental engagement.

9/11 stuff has way too much noise and not enough signal for me to want to engage with conspiratorially. The OKC stuff is legit alarming and distressing though. Lots of holes. Lots of weird deaths and events. Lots of poo poo doesnt add up or hold up to scrutiny, and i just cant be charitable about the motives of the fbi or cia or any of those groups. It's malevolent-incompetence-at-best.

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As an aside, I really don't think 'cabal' is the right word for the Epstein lot - I'd use 'clique', it's really like, 5 or 7 separate cabals jockeying for influence and power, plus the occasional 'small differences making vast rifts' fight on ideology. Epstein was just a power player in all of them.

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