TRUMPERY TWEETING

Anyone who has knowledge of the ability of hackers to get personal data becomes really paranoid about other people learning their darkest secrets. This paranoia often surfaces at 3 in the morning.

I can understand a person new to the spotlight of politics becoming worried about blackmail from hackers.

The latest from Wikileaks is a good/bad thing. It lets the rest of us know just how paranoid a person is power needs to be.

For instance, attorneys with that hackable TV in their conference rooms need to be really certain that they have downloaded all of the patches. Even if all the janitors cleaning the attorney offices are trusted people, it is still way too easy to put a thumb drive into the TV. Now that the problem is known, I do not think the courts are going to by sympathetic to attorneys who did not take security measures and allowed confidential information to be accessed by hackers.

Most of you are WAY too careless regarding your phones. Once a spy gets physical access to your phone, they can hack your phone in various ways.

One of the reasons that US law enforcement is divided into different agencies, is so that each agency can only get information within his jurisdictional area.

We all have to realize that much of WWIII is going to be fought on the internet.

ISIS recruits using the internet. Terrorist make plans and carry out attacks using burner phones and internet communications, rather than dangerously meeting in person.

If we do not have excellent internet spying, we will be unable to stop the bad guys before they blow up innocents.

This means that the intelligence community must be trustworthy like our armed forces are trustworthy. Just like our armed services obey the Commander in Chief, the intelligence community obeys our Commander in Chief.

Just because someone can do something does not mean that they will do something.

All companies need to patch the holes through which hackers hack. Unfortunately, some of them deny they are hackable. An Apple icon called TATSU turned my iPad into a brick, and I had to pay the deductible for a new iPad, while the Apple geniuses informed me that no one can hack Apple.

**** Note: the adjective trumpery means showy but worthless.