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CROWDSTRIKE: FIVE THINGS EVERYONE IS IGNORING ABOUT THE RUSSIA-DNC STORY
https://
dailycaller.com/2017/06/24/crowdstrike-five-things-everyone-is-ignoring-about-the-russia-dnc-story/
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CrowdStrike Is Funded By Clinton-Loving Google $$
Finally, it’s worth pointing out that CrowdStrike received $100 million in investments led by Google Capital (since re-branded as CapitalG) in 2015.
CapitalG is owned by Alphabet, and Eric Schmidt, Alphabet’s chairman, was a supporter of Hillary Clinton in the 2016 election. More than just supporting Clinton, leaked emails from Wikileaks in November 2016 showed that in 2014 he wanted to have an active role in the campaign.
According to the Wall Street Journal, Schmidt “sent a Clinton campaign official a lengthy memo with advice on running the campaign. He told campaign officials he was ‘ready to fund, advise recruit talent,’ and ‘clearly wants to be head outside advisor,’ according to a 2014 email from Clinton campaign Chairman John Podesta to campaign manager Robby Mook.”
And Politico reported in November 2016 that Schmidt “served in a personal capacity as an adviser to the Clinton operation,” and wore a “staff” badge at her election night party.
Schmidt also funded a startup called, “The Groundwork.” An article in Quartz titled, “The stealthy, Eric Schmidt-backed startup that’s working to put Hillary Clinton in the White House,” details its operations.
“The Groundwork, according to Democratic campaign operatives and technologists, is part of efforts by Schmidt—the executive chairman of Google parent-company Alphabet—to ensure that Clinton has the engineering talent needed to win the election,” the article says.
“And it is one of a series of quiet investments by Schmidt that recognize how modern political campaigns are run, with data analytics and digital outreach as vital ingredients that allow candidates to find, court, and turn out critical voter blocs.”
The post also calls Schmidt “one of the most powerful donors in the Democratic Party.”
There are other connections between Google money and the Democratic Party.
“It’s extremely gratifying to bring in a high-caliber investor like Google Capital which shares our passion for innovation and sees the opportunity to completely transform the security industry,” said George Kurtz, CrowdStrike’s co-founder and chief executive officer.
CrowdStrike Closes $100 Million Financing Round Led by
Google Capital
Irvine, CA – July 13, 2015 – CrowdStrike Inc., provider of the first true Software-as-a Service (SaaS) based next-generation endpoint protection platform, today announced that the company has completed a $100 million Series C financing round, led by Google Capital. Rackspace (NASDAQ: RAX), a CrowdStrike customer, also participated in the round along with existing investors Accel and Warburg Pincus. This brings the company’s total funding raised to $156 million.
As the effectiveness of traditional antivirus and malware-centric security approaches continue to rapidly diminish, the CrowdStrike Falcon platform solves this fundamental problem by enabling organizations to detect, prevent and respond to attacks, at any stage – even malware-free intrusions.
“We were blown away by CrowdStrike’s incredible growth and impressive customer adoption,” said Gene Frantz, partner at Google Capital. “They have a truly unique SaaS-based endpoint security model, a highly scalable subscription revenue model, and a visionary technical approach that has huge potential to transform the industry, which is why we’re thrilled to make this investment.”
CrowdStrike has more than tripled its growth of total billings and employees year-over-year, and significantly increased its core customer base. The strong financial performance of the company is driven by massive worldwide deployments of CrowdStrike Falcon by global Fortune 500 companies.
https://www.
crowdstrike.com/resources/crowdstrike-closes-100-million-financing-round-led-google-capital/
In 2010, EFF and many other organizations praised Google for refusing to sacrifice the company’s values for access to the Chinese market. At the time, this move followed public backlash and several attacks on Google’s infrastructure that targeted the personal data of several prominent Chinese human rights activists. Google’s departure from China showed that strong core values in fundamental human rights could beat out short-term economic gain in the calculus of an Internet company.
But now it seems the company has reversed course.
This news comes amid other reports of American tech giants compromising values to enter or remain within China: Facebook has piloted a censored version of its own platform, and Apple recently faced criticism for moving its customers' data into China-hosted servers, and adding code to filter the Taiwanese flag emoji in Chinese locales.
Within China, Google’s direct competitor, Baidu, has been facing a significant amount of social, regulatory, and economic backlash over recent advertising malpractice, such as monetizing questionable medical advertisements, heavily deprioritizing non-Baidu services, and allegedly promoting phishing sites. There may well be a growing demand for competition within the Chinese search engine market.
https://
www.eff.org/deeplinks/2018/08/google-needs-come-clean-about-its-chinese-plans
connects 2 places for easier transport?
The hundreds of gigabytes of pilfered data came from an unnamed contractor working for the Navy’s underwater weapons R&D center; this Naval Undersea Warfare Center is based in Newport, Rhode Island. According to the Washington Post, the stolen data included material related to a “project known as Sea Dragon, as well as signals and sensor data, submarine radio room information relating to cryptographic systems, and the Navy submarine development unit’s electronic warfare library.”
There was more taken, but the Post held off on reporting about it as to avoid harming national security.
Bryan Clark, a naval analyst at the Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments, told the Post, “U.S. naval forces are going to have a really hard time operating in that area, except for submarines, because the Chinese don’t have a lot of anti-submarine warfare capability. The idea is that we are going to rely heavily on submarines in the early effort of any conflict with the Chinese.”
https://
www.csoonline.com/article/3279895/security/chinese-hackers-stole-614gb-of-undersea-warfare-data-from-us-navy-contractor.html
Exalting Enemies of World War II
Now to some specific examples of harmful revisionism.
Three recent studies have been issued in the past year that “soften the accepted image of Adolf Hitler, making the Führer appear more human and credible than ever before,”
reported Norman Lebrecht of the Spectator (Oct. 28, 2000).
And as we allow Germany and its dark hour of World War ii to become sunnier in the pages of our history books, we are cozying up to the same country in a foreign-policy agenda that will assuredly bite us soon. We seek the friendship of a German-led European Union—a beast that is already showing its fascist fangs, as we have repeatedly shown in this magazine—yet most are too blind to history to see it. It is this economic, political and military union that is rising on the world scene as a beast that will devour our nation!
In the recent movie Pearl Harbor, in addition to the blatant historical inaccuracies (which Hollywood usually doesn’t mind letting slip by), was the
humanizing of Japan
shifting our view of the harbor’s attackers from warmongers to glory-seeking soldiers.
moar sauce:
https://
www.thetrumpet.com/515-rewriting-history