2005
Do you think Korea hacked Sony?
I think I think teenagers hacked the FBI and the CIA.
IMO, me thinks they hacked themselves and the Whitehouse days before Obama announced new CyberSecurity bill.
http://www.nbcnews.com/storyline/sony-hack/sony-hack-n-korean-intel-gleaned-nsa-during-incursion-n288761
Sony Hack: N. Korean Intel Gleaned By NSA During Incursion
Comments by top U.S. officials, including President Barack Obama, that blamed North Korea for the Sony Pictures cyberattack were apparently rooted in a top-secret penetration of North Korea's computer systems by the National Security Agency, according to The New York Times — a report independently confirmed by NBC News.
The Times reported that the penetration occurred before the hack of Sony, but U.S. intelligence officials would not discuss the report Sunday or confirm its details. But the Times report says the evidence gleaned from the U.S. penetration of North Korean government hackers' activities persuaded Obama and other top officials that North Korea was behind the attack.
NBC News has been told that the U.S. intelligence agencies did not have any warning of the Sony hacking through its monitoring of North Korean computers, and that the first the government learned of the Sony attack was on Nov. 24, when the company alerted the FBI's cyber unit.
FBI Director James Comey said at a cyber conference at Fordham University on Jan. 7 that the North Koreans had become "sloppy" in hiding their tracks, adding:
"We could see that the IP [Internet protocol] addresses that were being used to post and to send the emails were coming from IPs that were exclusively used by the North Koreans."
Gen. James Clapper, director of the NSA, described his trip to North Korea on Nov. 6 and 7 — to bring back Kenneth Bae and Matthew Todd Miller, two Americans in prison there — at the same Fordham conference, including his dinner with the head of North Korean intelligence, who is in charge of Pyongyang's hacking unit. His trip preceded Sony's notification to the FBI that it had been hacked.
The NSA told the Times and NBC News:
The purpose of Director Clapper's trip to North Korea was solely to secure the release of the two detained U.S. citizens. As you know, it was a success.
There was no set agenda prior to his departure and he was not told who he was going to meet with until his arrival. So his interaction with General Kim was not a formal or pre-scheduled engagement to meet with his North Korean intelligence counterparts to discuss intelligence matters. Because of the sensitivities surrounding the effort to obtain Bae and Miller's release, the DNI [director of national intelligence] was focused on the task and did not want to derail any progress by discussing other matters.
While we will not specifically address the Sony matter beyond what was stated publicly by the DNI and FBI Director Comey last week, Director Clapper is (and was) fully aware of North Korea's many efforts in recent years to probe and infiltrate U.S. commercial networks and cyber infrastructure. The USIC [U.S. intelligence community] has been tracking North Korean intrusions and phishing attacks on a routine basis. While no two situations are the same, it is our shared goal is to prevent bad actors from exploiting, disrupting or damaging U.S. commercial networks and cyber infrastructure. When it becomes clear that cyber criminals have the ability and intent to do damage, we work cooperatively to defend networks.
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Genetic Experimentation: Is Cloning the Ultimate Act of Social Darwinism by Elyssa D. Durant, Ed.M. ©️ 1996 - 2019
Genetic Experimentation
Is Cloning the Ultimate Act of Social Darwinism?
By Elyssa Durant
Who ever dreamed that by the end of the semester, the hypothetical question on cloning would become a reality?Upon my first reading of the course material on cloning, the dilemma presented in the syllabi literally took my breath away. In fact, I was so profoundly affected by the hypothetical, that I made a Xerox copy and mailed it to my grandfather in New York. Initially I found myself wondering about the following question raised during a bioethics seminar:
A wife requested that she be implanted with the twin embryo her mother-in law had frozen many years ago; the mother in-law agrees, and the wife then presents her husband a "gift "—his own twin as his son.
Although an interesting situation, I must wonder whether this is a gift—or in some cases, a life sentence! Certainly, this could help answer the Nature v. Nurture argument once and for all—and I am tempted to let my intellectual curiosity get the better of me. Despite my Generation X status, I do not feel we can forget historical efforts to commit mass genocide against Jews, Armenians, and other ethnic groups.
It would be naïve to think someone hasn't already thought about the potential "benefits" of cloning, and how it might expedite the evolutionary process of Social Darwinism.
As mentioned in class, 6% of those surveyed would actually consider cloning themselves. I would be willing to bet that this percentage of the population has some overlap with those who feel privileged enough to be part of the Aryan "master" race.
Let us not forget that Hitler nearly succeeded in his plans to exterminate the entire Jewish population less than 50 years ago. It seems probable that some other maniac has or will think of the idea—and will hardly be persuaded by a few government restrictions on intellectual freedom and scientific curiosity. Lack of federal funding will hardly dissuade anyone with enough power or money to conduct experiments any way he sees fit.
Claiming constitutional protections under the First Amendment is quite a stretch— I do not think the First Amendment was intended to extend beyond freedom of the press and free speech. Clearly, the manipulation of genetic material and scientific experimentation on humans is bit different from the freedom to assembly.
How much prison time does one serve for 12 million acts of first-degree pre-meditated murder? Imagine if Hitler was forced to face his own demons by raising his own genetic clone? Although this may not be an effective form of punishment, it would certainly be an interesting one!
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