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Thanks Ehden.I'm wondering what do we do now: move to Linux, withdraw cash?

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Cash may become soon totally useless, at least on "open markets" and for some time (until their CBDC systems fail, which is unavoidable), because who wants to participate to them must be totally affiliated to the totalitarians. What needs to be done is to create clandestine parallel currencies to circumvent their "system", take out the labor force for their "corporations" and put them to work in alternative production organizations, and sabotage their energy supply: the big data paradise is useless without electricity. And without the stupid people who obstinately continue to play on smartphones without interruption their tunes the whole day.

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Thanks for this article Ehden. I agree with your assessment but I am missing a bit more context for the "targetting Trump" and "loss of data".

What are you referring to exactly? Can you elaborate?

How is this potential attack targetting Trump and what data does it seem to destroy?

Finally, do you think this may be potentially a "supply chain" attack similar to SolarWinds of a few years ago which means the update was validly signed and thus accepted by the Falcon EDR endpoints?

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I've added a small addendum: Possible Objectives of the Threat Agent.

It would explain a lot.

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Ok. I read it. If the primary objective is indeed to cover the tracks behind any conspiracy around the Trump assassination attempt, it seems a bit excessive.

If the perpetrators wanted to cover their tracks, they could have easily used a more targeted attack and if the conspirators are part of the US security establishment or a hostile state actor (e.g Iran which I personally think is highly unlikely), wouldn't they already have persistence in all the systems with the data they need to delete?

Seems like using a nuclear bomb to do the job of a sniper rifle.

Don't you think?

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A bit excessive? The deep state just tried to KILL A (EX) US PRESIDENT and the leading candidate to become the next US president. They failed.

Last time we had a similar attempt on a president life was in 1981 (Roland Reagan).

If they had incriminating evidence on windows systems and they want it deleted ASAP, this "general" event would have provided the perfect coverup.

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Fair enough but don't you think that it's possible Trump is part of that deep state himself?

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Perhaps they fight with each other? I'm sure they have their own goals to service while still being onboard with the main objective.

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Crowd Strike is heavily used in government agencies. I'm guessing this outage puts a LOT of government agencies in a bind for the use of resources that could otherwise be dedicated to day-to-day functions, which could be investigative in nature. I wonder if this also puts a halt to revenue collection (IRS). I'm wondering if this is a supply chain attack to disable early warning efforts for something else, or allow for malicious injection onto systems for ongoing monitoring or future back door access. Seems like a perfectly good "cover" for "IT" to come around to each system and possibly add something to critical systems.

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Love the name a “Crowd Strike” strike, like a snake with millions of fangs striking out at the crowd….symbolic of death and injury to the naive and unsuspecting masses?

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This applies only to Windows and/or Microsoft-based enviroments.

Linux, for example, has no drivers.

Do I need to explain further?

Of course, who would like to see on social media in real time the assassination of ANY REAL OPPOSITION and dissidence.

Ask statistician Ernst Emil Gumbel and extrapolate the data from the 20es of the past century to the present time:

https://archive.org/details/vierjahrepolitis00gumb/mode/2up

The correlation between the computational blackout and the political murdering spree is clear: IT IS THE ST. BARTHOLOMEW NIGHT.

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Sorry, forgot to mention those couple of stupid people who continue to buy Windows in order to continue to feed the devils who are eating them up - and then complain because devils want to eat them up (for real, not virtually). Think that in the province of Substackistan the "efficacy" of what you write is measured by noone else but Google and Google Analytics. That's where you are, that's how stupid you are.

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It; is right there on the label. CrowdStrike.

"If you wanna really see something ... take a look at what happens ne...."

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Not unlike the shooter whose name starts with "Crook" and the Secret Service Director whose name starts with "Cheat."

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Ehden, do you think antivirus software companies could also be used to insert malicious code on behalf of Microsoft and other Operating system vendors? Are any one of them trustworthy?

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I completely agree with your conclusion that the defective update was released deliberately with the intention to cause millions of computers to stop working.

I am a programmer/software developer with 25 years of professional experience and for another 20 years prior to that I programmed computers obsessively as a hobby.

One doesn't even have to know anything about devOps/secOps to undertand that common sense dictates that one has to run modified software at least ONCE or running it with modified data at least ONCE in order to test it.

Unlike errors that are hard to reproduce, like multithreading issues for example, this error happened on millions of machines on first run and every time which means that it is impossible to run the program without noticing the error immidiately which leaves only two possibilities.

1. The program was never run before submitting the update.

2. The "error" was detected but the update was submitted anyway.

The likelyhood for#1 ia almost zero. leaving #2 and hence malicious intent as the more likely cause.

The parallel I see with the Trump assassination attempt is that a total, abysmal and catastrophic breakdown in protocol and good practice "just happens to coincide" with an "error"/"external threat".

Sorry, not buying it. The time when total incompetence provided plausible deniability for sinister intent is over.

Where I differ from you is that I don't believe that this was done to provide cover for a data cleanup operation.

I see this event as part of a wider information warfare campaign to massively interfere with the 2024 election.

Just as the constant media chatter and panic porn about disease X and bird flu are designed to prepare the public for the next "pandemic" this operation is part of a campaign to prepare the public for massive inteference in the 2024 elections through cyber attacks supposedly from "foreign actors".

This is the preparation of the information battlefield.

I highly recommend reading the following articles which to me look like a blueprint for stealing the next elections or at least for throwing the elections into absolute chaos.

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NBC: "Experts war-gamed what might happen if deepfakes disrupt the 2024 election. Things went sideways fast".

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2024-election/war-game-deepfakes-disrupt-2024-election-rcna143038

Some quotes:

'Dubbed “The Deepfake Dilemma,” the exercise illustrated how AI-enabled tools threaten to turbocharge the spread of false information in an already polarized society and could sow chaos in the 2024 election, multiple participants told NBC News.'

"The once close cooperation among federal officials, tech companies and researchers that developed after the 2016 election has unraveled due to sustained Republican attacks in Congress and court rulings discouraging federal agencies from consulting with companies about moderating online content.

The result is a potentially risky gap in safeguarding the 2024 election."

Lastly, this here:

"Some of the largest AI tech firms say they are introducing safeguards to their products and communicating with government officials to help bolster election security before the November vote."

Adding more suspicion is this story from one year ago published by The Intercept.

"U.S. SPECIAL FORCES WANT TO USE DEEPFAKES FOR PSY-OPS"

https://theintercept.com/2023/03/06/pentagon-socom-deepfake-propaganda/

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One doesn't need too much imagination to envision a scenario where the military/intelligence agencies launch cyber attacks, claiming these were done by foreign actors in collusion with domestic extremists/MAGA/Republicans/conservatives.

Using the first article I mentioned as a basis, if I wanted to steal the elections through election fraud I would do the following:

In the days prior to the election and on election day I would spread fake videos showing evidence of election fraud.

These videos would be easily recognizable as crude fakes/deep fakes.

I would have the report 24/7 on these fake videos.

Any REAL video showing REAL election fraud would be discredited as deep fake launched by, you guessed it, Mr. Putin or my domestic enemies.

The added benefit of this strategy is that if I still lost the election I could claim that the election was invalid because of the massive interference.

Where have we seen this before? 2016 all over again!

Coming back to crowdstrike, who was at the heart of the information warfare campaign against Donald Trump?

Exactly, it was crowdstrike and not the FBI that was tasked to investigate the "hacking" of the DNC server.

Crowdstrike dutifully reported that that the DNC was hacked by Russian hackers.

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Ehden,

Is it true that Crowdstrike servers are in Ukraine as well as the person who started Crowdstrike. What do you make of Trump's recent call to Zelensky last week?

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I was thinking the outage was employed to stop the president Trump wave that was (and is) getting bigger by the second. They killed two birds with one stone.

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Did it stop the wave? IDK.

How many individuals in the US do you know that were impacted by the Crowdstrike issue? And did that change their politics? I don't know of anyone who was personally impacted.

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Very interesting. And, you are right . . . they attempted to kill two birds with one stone but did NOT stop the wave!!

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I work for a multinational company with 20.000 employees.

Almost everyone with a windows machine was affected.

I couldn't work for 2 days.

And no, it didn't change my political views.

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My husband works for a smaller multi-national firm. It didn't impact him at all.

Even if it didn't, it wouldn't change HIS political views.

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Of course, why should it impact him?

Crowdstrike is NOT part of the Windows OS.

Therefore it impacted only machines on which crowdstrike was installed.

Our company became paranoid after a data leak.

That's why they ensured that CS was installed on pretty much every windows machine.

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