Merry Christmas, wishing y'all a good one. Raising my mug to endings and new beginnings.
How a former CIA officer convicted of spying for the Chinese was recruited on LinkedIn, sold top-secret documents for $25,000 and put the lives of American operatives at risk
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6527231/Former-CIA-officer-convicted-spying-Chinese.html
top comment at the bottom:
"Exit, Brisbane, Australia, 19 minutes ago
China is a greater risk than Russia by far"
people seem to get it.
China won't resort to massive stimulus but more easing seen: central bank adviser Sheng
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-economy-rrr-idUSKCN1OO05L
Iraqi Christians celebrate Christmas one year after Islamic State defeat
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-christmas-season-iraq-idUSKCN1OO0KG
Intel to get 700 million shekel grant for Israel expansion
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-israel-intel-idUSKCN1OO0JD
New cpus with better spyware builtin coming to a new 'puter near you? Read up on the Management Engine in Intel CPUs
True but the problem with that is you end up having to maintain everything yourself unless you create a local team to handle updates to all your software which you'll have to recompile yourself to work on it. Not a choice most people have.
>https://twitter.com/DonnaWR8/status/1077033813585395712
https://video.twimg.com/ext_tw_video/1077095986315415554/pu/vid/1280x720/L8YA43TCDlvdJwTb.mp4?tag=6
including video from tweet of barge