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Subject: [Leica] Did the world dodge a bullet?
From: imra at iol.ie (Douglas Barry)
Date: Sat, 4 Nov 2017 18:32:42 +0000
References: <98497348-57CF-440A-BBB0-2B7F9882CD1A@twc.com> <78EE19E3-8782-4D19-85C0-46A9A7FACE27@gmail.com> <CAAsXt4MQiCT7as3b7W0d_2BpYVnyKMgTX+sYkcF-Gm9nkzf2nw@mail.gmail.com>

Living on the east coast of Ireland in 2017 with Trumpadonian Bluster 
Bombs & Little Kim (Let the) Jong Un in - we're in range of both. NK is 
only 8,800 kilometres (and a North Korean fat finger aiming error) away 
- damn great circle routes.

Douglas

On 04/11/2017 00:48, Robert Adler wrote:
> 1950's (?) - Living on the coast of Georgia -- Cuban missile crisis
> 2017 - Living on the coast of California -- Korean missile crisis
>
> I'm beginning to take this personally!
>
>
> Bob Adler
> www.robertadlerphotography.com
> *"Capturing Light One Frame At A Time"*
>
> On Fri, Nov 3, 2017 at 1:49 PM, Tina Manley <tmanley at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> I agree 100%.  We are doomed.
>>
>> Tina
>>
>> Sent from my iPhone
>>
>>> 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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