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It’s a hacking shame! – The Royal Gazette

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Created: Sep 29, 2023 08:00 AM

After watching 2001: A Space Odyssey in 1968 and watching HAL 9000, faced with the prospect of disconnection, HAL decides to kill the astronauts to protect and continue his programmed directives. After that, I was never a big fan of computers.

However, times change and we must keep up or be left behind. I bought a computer and found a ten-year-old kid to show me how to use it — and, yes, it has made my life, should I say, a little easier. I can do my banking, pay my bills, get food delivered and even buy a plane ticket to go and see the kids.

However, I started reading stories of people, especially my age, losing their life savings from fraud, scams, banks and hotels being hacked, and even companies being hacked or being held to ransom. The nightmare of HAL came back! My first thought was to unplug the computer and abandon the world of technology altogether.

However, the more I thought about it and the more I talked to people, it became clear that I could take steps to protect myself against these threats. Apart from adding a security program, the big one is not to open e-mails with strange e-mail addresses or click on any links in the message. Even right now as I’m writing, I’ve just received an e-mail from One Communications saying “view your monthly statement”. I don’t use One Comm. Obviously, a scam/phishing attack.

So now I am asking. Am I the only one who felt embarrassed when our premier announced that the “Russkies” had hacked the government network, even though he did not say it as such, mostly like we were being held at ransom? By the way, it has not been confirmed that it was in fact the Russians.

I found it strange that the Premier tried to play down what had happened by saying, “There has been an incident, which is affecting not only the Bermuda Government but some other regional governments as well”, without saying which other governments have been affected, So I guess it’s OK since it happened to “other governments”?

But it is neither here nor there that other governments may have suffered the same disruption. We are Bermuda! We are supposed to be the leaders of international…

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Military experts discuss the future of warfare in Thursday night forum hosted by The Gazette and KKTV | Subscriber-Only Content

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Now that America’s longest war has come to an end, what does the future of warfare look like?

That was the focus of many questions put to a panel of former and current military officers Thursday night at the Southeast Armed Services YMCA during a community conversation hosted by The Gazette and KKTV.

But as many of the roughly 50 in attendance arrived at the facility, a group of about two dozen stood on the sidewalk singing and holding signs.

Amy Zimbelman, a conference minister – something like a bishop – with Mountain States Mennonite Conference, which represents 17 churches in Colorado and New Mexico, stood next to fellow church members, peace and justice activists and Colorado College students.

The Colorado Springs resident had issue with the forum’s title: After Afghanistan: The Future of Warfare.

“The way the conversation is framed makes it sound as though warfare is just a foregone conclusion,” she said. “We need to look at other alternatives. We need to take seriously, active, non-violent resistance in our world.”



Community Conversation - After Afghanistan: The Future of Warfare

Amy Zimbelman, a conference minister with Mountain States Mennonite Conference, stands with a few dozen others outside the Southeast Armed Services YMCA before a community conversation with a panel of military experts discussing the future of warfare that was presented by The Gazette and KKTV on Thursday

. “We need to take seriously, active, nonviolent resistance in our world,” she said.




Colorado College freshman Wiley Holbrooke, 19, of Telluride, and…

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Letter: The great pretenders – Opinion – Gaston Gazette

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As I write this there is no president-elect. It doesn’t matter what The Associated Press says, or any other mainstream news broadcaster says.

For readers who don’t know, the press has no authority to call an election. Only each state’s election apparatus has that authority, and not one state so far has certified the election results.

Despite this, newspapers and television news shows are asserting that Joe Biden is the president-elect. And to make this theater even more bizarre, Joe Biden and his selected vice-president candidate, Kamala Harris, are pretending they have been elected.

Over the last several months we have witnessed Joe Biden behaving as though he has some mental impairment, probably dementia. I have to wonder who is convincing him that he has won this election when in fact, so far, he has not.

Does he really believe this? We know he is a plagiarist and spins tall tales about Corn Pop and such, so is this just another one of his fantasies?

Worse than that, who are those trying to fool the American people that the Biden/Harris ticket has been elected? There is an avalanche of disinformation distributed under the name of “news.” The credibility of mainstream media outlets is now at the bottom of the pits, it’s so bad.

This is not just sad, this is criminal.The FCC has rules against distorting the news, lying to the public. It’s against the law, especially if the distortion causes public harm.

When all of the Democrats are finally made aware that Biden/Harris have not been elected, what kind of reaction does anyone expect? Will there be public harm as the left has promised?

In a nutshell, there has been a three-pronged attack on our election. The first one I just described; disinformation.

The second one is the traditional method of election fraud that involves illegal ballot stuffing. Ballot stuffing this election is on steroids due to some 300 million unverifiable ballots mailed out by the DNC to anyone and everyone, including dead people and cats.

This particular election fraud also includes back-dating ballots, dumping thousands of ballots at 4 a.m., destroying ballots with the GOP choice indicated. There are now lawsuits in Wisconsin, Pennsylvania,…

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