[Leica] Did the world dodge a bullet?

[tmanley at gmail.com (Tina Manley)]

I agree 100%.  We are doomed.

Tina

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> On Nov 3, 2017, at 7:35 PM, Howard L Ritter Jr <hlritter at twc.com> wrote:
> 
> ENOUGH IS ENOUGH!!! I hereby DECLARE WAR ON N.KOREA!! Nuke Bombs & Rockets 
> start falling in 30 min. ENJOY HELL LIDDLE ROCKET MAN! 
> 
> 
> Suppose the ?rogue employee? exiting Twitter had decided to post something 
> like that on @realDonaldTrump instead of just inactivating the account. 
> Kim might not have been panicked into a military response, but the tension 
> would have gone through the roof, and Trump?s credibility through the 
> floor. 
> 
> Just think about this for a minute: ONE low-level flunky at ONE private 
> company, able to impersonate the leader of the most powerful nation on 
> Earth with what sounds like one of the real thing?s intemperate, bellicose 
> eructations. The mind reels.
> 
> When America has been saddled with a thin-skinned, easily provoked, 
> arrogant, intemperate juvenile delinquent with all the emotional stability 
> and self-control of a pimply 13-year-old feeling his first rush of 
> testosterone for its President and he connects both ends of his id?s 
> digestive tract raw and unfiltered to his Twitter feed that?s as 
> accessible internally as mine is, America?s misfortune could become the 
> world?s. 
> 
> Do you think that no one outside the WH knows, or could discover, the 
> password associated with this account and how to spoof two-factor 
> authentication? All it might take is being able to do it one time. How 
> much would you be willing to bet on the absolute security of 
> @realDonaldTrump? The future of the world? I?d bet my dog (not really, 
> Maizey!) that Kim?s or Vlad?s or the ayatollahs? hackers could do it if 
> they wished, which of course they fervently do. For God?s sake, think 
> about what they?re already known to have gotten into!
> 
> This is just intolerable. I want to start a change.org 
> <http://change.org/> petition calling on all social media to close the 
> accounts of all heads of state under any name that identifies them as such 
> or becomes recognizable as theirs. I think this mundane episode is a real 
> sleeper that could turn into something really really major, and even 
> though few might have thought about it before this, the social media 
> should have. I think it?s unconscionable that the muckety-mucks at Twitter 
> didn?t take every possible step to make Trump?s account accessible only at 
> the highest levels, and even then requiring two launch officers to turn 
> their keys simultaneously. 
> 
> Trump should fly into one of his patented rages and demand that 
> #failingTwitter put nuclear-level security on his account and should 
> refuse to use it until the NSA?s top spooks have reviewed every aspect of 
> that security. Of course, recognizing no interests whatever outside his 
> own, he didn?t and won?t.
> 
> Mark my words.
> 
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