#AI created fake drugs are coming to market Is it safe?

I, Gloria Poole,Registered Nurse,artist, worked in hosptials for 26 years in the states of Georgia, N C, Va, and S C . I also helped with clinical drug trails at the Medical College of GA. As a Professional I have some questions about BIG PHARMA using #artificialintelligence to create synthetic drugs. I moved to Republic Missouri on 31 Jul2023. I have all actual phones I had in Springfield MO and Columbia MO but all virtual numbers that were mine were stolen FROM me via fraud and identity theft. I add that in so viewers know not to call google voice numbers for me or virtual numbers I had before. I have several phones for several reasons.

Back to task, my questions about using machines to create and test drugs to be used on humans are:

1) THE OBVIOUS QUESTION ABOUT THIS IS: WHAT MAKES SCIENTIST THINK TESTING A SYNTHETIC DRUG ON A COMPUTER DATABASE IS THE EQUIVALENT OF TESTING IT ON A REAL HUMAN WITH HUMAN CELLS, BLOOD, ANTIBODIES, ALLERGIES ETC?

2) THE SECOND OBVIOUS QUESTION IS: ARE ALL HUMANS WHO VISIT DOCTORS OR ARE ADMITTED TO HOSPITALS GUINEA PIGS WITHOUT THEIR CONSENT? AND ARE THEIR RECORDS FED INTO A I DATABASES TO 'TRAIN AI"WITHOUT HUMANS'CONSENT?

3) THE THIRD OBVIOUS QUESTION IS: DOES A I 'TRAINING'USING MEDICAL RECORDS OF REAL HUMANS WITHOUT THEIR KNOWLEDGE OR CONSENT A VIOLATION OF THE INTERNATIONAL CODE OF LAW LABELED "NUREMBERG CODEOF RESEARCH" THAT PROHIBITS RESEARCH ON HUMANS WITHOUT THEIR CONSENT?

I am including here the research I did quickly after reading news article today, that prompted these questions. Please read below these snippets of news articles, Google searches, and research on this topic .

Quote:

"We mistake thinking AI is a general intelligence; thinking it has human characteristics. It's not. This is mathematics.

''What it doesn't change is what we are as humans and it doesn't change the need for empathy and sympathy and understanding in all our human relationships.'' words of Prof Andrew Hopkins of Wales.

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-wales-67171042;

about exscientia.ai which is using A I to manipulate molecules to create new drugs faster;

21 Oct 2023; 6am _____________

Ohio State is also using drugs to manipulate molecules to create drugs faster:

Quote: "Our aim was to use AI to accelerate the drug design process, and we found that it not only saves researchers time and money but provides drug candidates that may have much better properties than any molecules that exist in nature.”

... This study builds on previous research of Ning’s where her team developed a method named Modof that was able to generate molecule structures that exhibited desired properties better than any existing molecules...

Having such a dynamic and effective device at scientists’ disposal could enable the industry to manufacture stronger drugs at a quicker pace – but despite the edge AI might give scientists inside the lab, Ning emphasizes the medicines G2Retro or any generative AI creates still need to be validated – a process that involves the created molecules being tested in animal models and later in human trials.  “We are very excited about generative AI for medicine, and we are dedicated to using AI responsibly to improve human health,” said Ning. 

This research was supported by Ohio State’s President’s Research Excellence Program and the National Science Foundation.

https://news.osu.edu/using-ai-to-create-better-more-potent-medicines/ 21Oct 2023; 6:18am

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Harvard is using AI to create drugs also:

"Milestones in AI-Enabled Drug Discovery

Far from being a distant sci-fi future, AI-enabled drug discovery is already here. A non-exhaustive list of historic milestones in the field includes the following achievements:

* In early 2020, Exscientia announced the first-ever AI-designed drug molecule to enter human clinical trials. * In July 2021, an AI system by DeepMind called AlphaFold predicted the protein structures for 330,000 proteins, including all 20,000 proteins in the human genome. The AlphaFold Protein Structure Database has since expanded to include over 200 million proteins, covering nearly all cataloged proteins known to science.

* In February 2022, Insilico Medicine reported the start of Phase I clinical trials for the first-ever AI-discovered molecule based on an AI-discovered novel target—all done at a fraction of the time and cost of traditional preclinical programs.

* In January 2023, AbSci became the first entity “to create and validate de novo antibodies in silico” using generative AI.

* In February 2023, the FDA granted its first Orphan Drug Designation to a drug discovered and designed using AI; Insilico Medicine plans to begin a global Phase II trial for the drug “early” this year.

According to Boston Consulting Group, as of March 2022, “biotech companies using an AI-first approach [had] more than 150 small-molecule drugs in discovery and more than 15 already in clinical trials.” But how exactly is AI being used to accomplish these milestones, and why does it matter?"

How AI Is Being Used

Traditional drug discovery is a notoriously time consuming and expensive process, with pre-clinical stages typically taking three to six years and costing hundreds of millions to billions of dollars. However, a host of AI tools are revolutionizing nearly every stage of the drug discovery process, offering substantial potential to reshape the speed and economics of the industry.

* Target identification: At the target identification phase of drug discovery, AI is being trained on large datasets, including omics datasets, phenotypic and expression data, disease associations, patents, publications, clinical trials, research grants, and more to understand the biological mechanisms of diseases and to identify novel proteins and/or genes that can be targeted to counteract those diseases. Combined with systems like AlphaFold, AI can go even further than mere target identification by predicting the 3D structures of targets and accelerating the design of appropriate drugs that bind to them.

* Molecular simulations: AI is also being used to reduce the need for physical testing of candidate drug compounds by enabling high-fidelity molecular simulations that can be run entirely on computers (i.e., in silico) without incurring the prohibitive costs of traditional chemistry methods. * Prediction of drug properties: Some AI systems are being used to bypass simulated testing of drug candidates by predicting key properties such as toxicity, bioactivity, and the physicochemical characteristics of molecules.

* De novo drug design: While traditional drug discovery has historically involved the screening of large libraries of candidate molecules, AI is shifting this paradigm too. Some systems are capable of generating promising and never-before-seen drug molecules entirely from scratch.

* Candidate drug prioritization: Once a set of promising “lead” drug compounds has been identified, AI is used to rank these molecules and prioritize them for further assessment, with AI approaches outperforming previous ranking techniques.

* Synthesis pathway generation: Going beyond theoretical drug design, AI is also being used to generate synthesis pathways for producing hypothetical drug compounds, in some cases suggesting modifications to compounds to make them easier to manufacture.

As AI systems continue to improve, the idea of fully automated end-to-end drug discovery appears less and less to be matter of if, but of when....

However, it also opens the floodgates to a host of unresolved issues relating to, e.g., intellectual property rights, the risk of technological misuse, and the continued assurance of drug safety and efficacy in this new era.

https://blog.petrieflom.law.harvard.edu/2023/03/20/how-artificial-intelligence-is-revolutionizing-drug-discovery/;

21 Oct 2023; 6:26am

Answers from @Google Search this morning:

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What is an omics database?

"Omics data is information generated by studies ending with -omics: genomics, proteomics, phenomics, etc. It all started with genomics. When the field of genomics first appeared, it was principally different from genetics since it focused on studying the whole genome rather than single gen"

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Is AI being used in medical research?

"We have already seen many published reports that use AI to interpret images — radiographs, histology, and optic fundi. Tools that utilize AI have come into increasing use in analyzing and interpreting large research databases containing information ranging from laboratory findings to clinical data."

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How is A I being used in drug development?

"Aside from identifying drug targets, AI has also been used successfully in the virtual screening of compounds, such as identifying those that can bind to “undruggable” targets, de novo drug design, drug repurposing and identification of treatment response biomarkers."

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Which pharmaceutical companies use A I in drug trials?

"Companies such as Amgen (AMGN. O), Bayer (BAYGn.DE) and Novartis (NOVN. S) are training AI to scan billions of public health records, prescription data, medical insurance claims and their internal data to find trial patients - in some cases halving the time it takes to sign them up.Sep 22, 2023" Insight: Big Pharma bets on AI to speed up clinical trials | Reutersreuters.com

https://www.reuters.com › technology › big-pharma-bets...

21 Oct 2023; 6:47am ------------------------

1st drug created by A I is in clinical trials

"Hong Kong-based biotech InSilico Medicine has used artificial intelligence (AI) to create the drug INS018-055 to help treat idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF).

IPF is a disease whereby the tissue surrounding the alveoli in the lungs becomes inflamed and thick, causing scarring within the lungs. This causes the lungs to become increasingly stiff, making it difficult for respiration. Pirfenidone and nintedanib are the two main medications used to help delay the progression of IPF.

Pirfenidone works by suppressing the activity of the immune system, whereas nintedanib works by helping slow down the progression of scarring within the lungs. InSilico’s INS-08055 acts by targeting discoidin domain receptor 1 (DDR1). INS-08055 acts by inhibiting DDR1, a collagen-activated pro-inflammatory receptor tyrosine kinase, expressed in epithelial cells and involved in fibrosis. The drug candidate, by inhibiting DDR1, alleviates the disease condition and is administered through intravenous and oral routes. Unlike other AI-produced drugs in trials, INS018_055 is the first drug with both a novel AI-discovered target and a novel AI-generated design."

https://www.clinicaltrialsarena.com/comment/first-drug-created-ai-enters-trials/:~:text=Unlike%20other%20AI-produced%20drugs,a%20novel%20AI-generated%20design.

21 Oct 2023; 6:53am

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from Google search

What are the disadvantages of AI in healthcare?

"Disadvantages of AI in healthcare

* Training complications. ...

* Risk of creating unemployment. ...

* Too much change can be difficult to manage. ...

* Still requires human input. ...

* Increased security risk. ...

* Social variables may not be considered. ...

* Inaccuracies could occur."

* 21 Oct 2023; 6:58am

I have other blogs I update one by one for different purposes and those include these:

https://gloriapoole.blogspot.com

https://gloriapoole-RN-artist.blogspot.com

https://prolife-nurse.blogspot.com

https://gloriapoole-paintings.blogspot.com

https://gpoole817.blogspot.com

https://gloria0817.blogspot.com

https://artist-gloriapoole.blogspot.com

https://publishing-life.blogspot.com

https://tapestry-of-life-LLP.blogspot.com

https://mini-exhibition.blogspot.com

https://cartooning-by-gloriapoole.blogspot.com

https://news-for-life.blogspot.com

https://save-the-baby-humans.blogspot.com

https://real-women-have-babies.blogspot.com

https://salvation-is-free.blogspot.com

Posted today 22 Oct 2023 at 4am by me Gloria Poole,RN,/ gloriapoole.RN/ gloriapoole_RN; gpooleRN artist; Republic Missouri. I moved to Republic Missouri on 31 July 2023.

How to end school murders written by Gloria Poole,RN,artist,Springfield Missouri

I, Gloria Poole,Registered Nurse/artist/author/illustrator/cartoonist /photographer/U S citizen/white/unmarried /woman wrote this this morning after reading Congress's ideas. My first thought was to email it to everyone but I thought first make it known publicly so others can talk it up. Saving the existing children in these 'united"states is almost as important as ending the mass murders of humans in the womb. Any nation that methodically assassinates its children via any technique, ritual, method, has no future. Here are my ideas on what we as a nation must do now to end the planned assaults on the nations'schools by anarchists, communists and anti-self-defense looneys.

My ideas for ending mass murders in schools, written by Gloria Poole,RN,artist,Springfield Missouri:

have only one entrance/exit into school and position armed, trained Police officer at it.

Bolt with deadbolt all other entrances.

Use metal detectors at that entrance for anybody seeking entrance.

Arm all teachers and administration and teach them to shoot straight.

Put bullet proof vests in classroom' closets.

Use surveillance tracking of whereabouts of anybody who enters school space, whether playground, service entrance for trucks, front door.

Require manufacturers of backpacks to put a bullet proof shield in them so students can cover themselves with them.

Teach students how to fight back [not hide under desk where they're visible!]

Research all students' backgrounds, see which students have violent tendencies, and red flag them.

Hold parents responsible for activities and actions of minor children.

Put "panic button"with direct link up to Police Dept on teachers desk that don't require teacher to say anything, or call 911

Put direct link up to S W A T law enforcement for every teacher .

U S Dept of Justice to authorize "shoot to kill"any invader who enters school grounds with assault weapons.

Create an instant pop-up shield on every student desk that encloses student with bullet proof armour.

Hold schools accountable [not taxpayers] for schools that fail to implement these measures.

Require News media to label anyone who kills another human with premeditation as a "murderer"/ criminal/ not as a 'shooter". Shooters hunt ducks and birds and geese and deer and are labeled hunters. Words matter!

Require electronic game manufacturers to remove from all games the playing concept that "killing is sport"or "legal"or "fun". Require game manufacturers to obey the law and not promote sedition or mass murder.

It's insanity to think that it would be possible to prevent anyone in U S from getting a weapon. Creating laws to prevent use of weapons only influences the LAW ABIDING. Those with plans to murder are not law abiding and would not be deterred by idea of "breaking the law". Therefore, teaching students and teachers how to fight back, how to survive is the solution and putting into schools mechanical protections is do-able. written by me Gloria Poole,RN,artist,Springfield Missouri; 8June2022;8:28am

I am updating this immediately to add in this news article from The Federalist

Quote:

" The same agency that investigated hate crime allegations that a garage pull cord was a noose is failing to investigate arson, death threats, and terror threats from pro-abortionists. .. Pro-life centers in nearly half of U.S. states have been attacked following a premature leak of the U.S. Supreme Court’s Dobbs v. Jackson, but the FBI’s plans to address threats of past or future violence, especially if the high court overturns Roe v. Wade, are not clear. Ever since a leaked opinion surfaced, churches, crisis pregnancy centers, and billboards openly support protecting life in the womb have sustained vitriolic attacks, vandalism with pro-abortion mantras, and been burned to the ground by arsonists.

https://thefederalist.com/2022/06/08/what-will-the-fbi-do-about-the-alarming-number-of-attacks-on-pro-life-centers-following-scotus-leak/

I can personally attest that there is a double standard of law enforcment in these United States in which the so-called "law enforcement" protects the murderers and not the innocent, nor prolife citizens.

Also, I am posting something I drew quickly trying to see if I could design a University of GA brazier and an elegant table top cooking pot. I am posting it here even though it is not related to my topic because some groups think I am not the same woman who creates art and posted it on web for 15 years. However, I am the same woman who creates art, writes poems, draws/sketches/paints oil paintings/ cartoons/doodles/photographs and I am the same woman who survived four violent attacks on my life at the hands of the man I was married to at the time, who got a wink wink get outa jail free card courtesy of immoral and illegal "law enforcement"in Colorado [in 2007]. I am divorced from that evil man [DBP] since Oct 2007 and the final decree was certified in Arapahoe County Colorado by the presiding Judge who also told that wannabee assassin DBP to pay me monthly [judgment of one million against DBP] since he destroyed my nursing career and ability to earn wages and caused me permanent injuries. However for the record DBP has never paid me a cent and got away with it by bribing District Judges in Colorado with $300,000 to prevent prison for him as spoken by his male lover in yr 2007.

I ,Gloria Poole, Registered Nurse, artist, writer, author, cartoonist,white woman, twice-divorced, U S citizen born in state of Georgia, UGA alum, GBH alum; Registered Nurse with license in Missouri but for 26 years in the state of Ga. Copyright. All rights reserved for this blog and all content on it are reserved to me Gloria Poole a/ k/ a on web as gloriapoole/ gpoole817/ gloria0817/ gloria.poole/ gloria_poole, gloria-poole, gloriapoole.RN, gloriapoole_RN, Ms Gloria Poole, "Poole,Gloria" of Springfield Missouri. 8June2022; 9:36am.

I have also updated , one by one, other blogs of mine recently including these,

https://cartooning-by-gloriapoole.blogspot.com

https://gloriapoole.blogspot.com

https://artist-gloriapoole.blogspot.com

https://gpoole817.blogspot.com

https://gloria0817.blogspot.com

https://prolife-nurse.blogspot.com

https://publishing-life.blogspot.com

https://news-for-life.blogspot.com

https://gloriapoole-RN-artist.blogspot.com

https://tapestry-of-life-LLP.blogspot.com

https://lifes-entertainment.blogspot.com

https://real-women-have-babies.blogspot.com

https://save-the-baby-humans.blogspot.com

https://mini-exhibition.blogspot.com

https://gloriapoole-paintings.blogspot.com

https://sites.google.com/site/paintingsofgloriapoole

https://glorias_writing.medium.com

and others possibly that I don't recall exact url of at this moment but which I have written in my paper notes.

Posted today 8June2022 at 9:42am by me Gloria Poole / gloriapoole /gpoole817 /gloria0817/ gloria.poole/ gloria_poole/ gloria-poole/ gloriapoole.RN/ gloriapoole_RN/ Ms Gloria Poole/ Poole,Gloria , from my own apartment in Springfield Missouri, using my own equipment [Apple mac, routers, keyboard,smartphones, but I have other equipment [tablets, laptops, smartphones, cell phones, chromebook, routers] which I also bought and use at different times. My real, born with name is Gloria [J is middle initial] Poole and I am law abiding my entire life and believe all U S citizens must have the constitutional right to self defense since even the good Police cannot be in a thousand places at once, because crime has become rampant in U S.

The Vaccine thought religion health care Police written by me Gloria Poole,RN of Springfield MO

Today while researching certain topics I had an aha moment and I wrote it and then decided I should post it for the world to read, so please read all paragraphs.

News questioning how many people in US will be without telephone service if nation allows shut down of 3G and 2G :

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2021/09/30/3g-networks-ending/

[My comment: can you imagine what sort of protest would hit the streets of U S if gasoline service stations required that only vehicles bought in 2022 be allowed to buy gas?

Or how about if appliance manufacturers made their appliances self-destruct every 2 years , as computer manufacturers have done?

Or how about if university degrees expired every 2 years?

Or how about if grocery stores said only those people who bought a 2022 subscription could buy food?

Or how about if the city utilities said only those consumers who bought a new furnace in 2022 will be allowed to have heat?

Or how about if city transit said only those consumers who board bus in this year's fashion statement are allowed to ride?

Or how about if Universities said we won't take students who wear hand-me-down clothes and have " old" phones?

Or how about if retail stores checked your bags at entrance to see if you had this year's "permit to access buying" ?

Or how about if schools said unless you have the mark of the beast you cannot enroll?

Or how about if U S as a nation said that after a person reaches age 60 they must destroy themselves?

{fyi, "old "people on fixed incomes are less likely to pay a thousand bux for a "5G" phone to spy on them for the purpose of appointing them to destruction.}

In the book of Revelation, KJV are warnings that when civilization become evil, they try to prevent those who oppose the regime from buying or using

commonly provided services or products. That is my paraphrase of that. Some of those scriptures are Revelation 18:10-24,KJv.

But that is not the specific scripture I was referring too. The specific verse which I paraphrased is in Revelations 13: 11-18, especially

verse 17: "And he had power to give life unto the image of the beast, that the image of the beast should both speak,

and cause that as many as would not worship the image of the beast to be killed, and he caused all, both small and great, rich and poor,

free and bond, to receive a mark in their right hand, or in their foreheads, and that

no man might buy or sell, save that he had the mark, or the name of the beast, [the enemy of GOD]

or the number of his name.' Revelation 13:17,KJV

Are vaccine papers the "mark of the beast? The covid virus was commissioned from Wuhan Labs by Obama and Biden who drove around in a govt paid vehicle they named "the beast".

Do those who quietly acquiesce to govt domination get real vaccines?

While those who protest get rigged vaccines to destroy them?

Are covid vaccines biochemical warfare against U S citizens in order to implement communism in U S, where government owns and controls every company, every person, every utility, every vehicle, every word, every thought, every manufacturer of anything?

What sort of civilization has these United States become? or is civilization the right word for a nation that has throughout its cities places where human babies are decapitated, shredded, pulled apart, destroyed with chemicals, and places that inject the unwanted with lethal drugs to destroy them [hospices]?

And where semi-automatic weapons are dispensed to the enemies of the U S by some Presidents [Obama in fast and furious]?

The items I was researching that inspired those thoughts are included here:

1) "Google has confirmed it allows some external software developers to read and analyse the inboxes of Gmail users, following scrutiny about privacy on the platform.

External apps can integrate with Gmail so customers have options around how they use their email, director of security at Google Cloud Suzanne Frey said in a blog post."

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-07-04/google-admits-it-allows-external-apps-to-access-user-data/9938556;

On web today 11Nov2021;9:54am

2) Quote :"It's not an employer's role to be the vaccine police"[My comment: Amen, nor school administrators' roles either! U S is a republic where INDIVIDUALS decide what is best for them, not groupthink.]

Quote article :"Last week, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) —

at the direction of the White House — finalized a rule that will deputize small businesses as the government’s vaccine police."

https://thehill.com/opinion/finance/580982-its-not-an-employers-role-to-be-the-vaccine-police;

On web 11Nov2021;10am.

{2nd comment: while I was typing this a cell phn of mine rang to distract me or to get an illegal auth code to login to my equipment, so I am about 99percent sure this computer of mine is infiltrated with spies.

When I answered caller said NOTHING as usual. Stalker calls to see if I am home before he tries to break in??]

It seems to me that Twitter is the thought police permanently suspending anyone who doesn't spout groupthink.

Facebook is the anti-republican, anti-life, police.

The FCC is the anti-republican and anti-life police.

And now OSHA is the vaccine police.

The BIG BROTHER govt [as defined by book 1984] is expanding daily.

I am beginning to believe that the covid virus was intentionally produced as a biochemcial warfare weapon against U S citizens and it is manipulated to cause fear, panic and cause people to willingly surrender all civil liberties.

Citizens who are too stupid to read the U S Constitution are easily fooled into believing that Biden is a self appointed King who has no boundaries in the law.

Might Pinterest be the " alternate" used by i.d thieves to steal identities from other platforms. I never had a Pinterest, nor a Facebook, nor an Instagram account and my twitter accounts were all hijacked by thugs.

I list the known only-democrats-allowed full use platforms: Twitter, Facebook; ; and ???FCC. And telephones that cannot be used without buyer-owner first creating a "profile"of real name, user i.d., tel num, address, email address, physical address, bank card info being stored. There is no such thing as anonymous phone calls in the U S. Every thing any citizen does is"monitored", tracked, located, pin-pointed on a map; sold to "merchants" and thieves and criminal hackers and "shared" with about 90 U S govt agencies. I am law abiding but I still want the U S to have ways for a victim of violence to communicate without the stalker knowing it.

FCC appointee opposed to republicans??

"While I have been deferential to all presidents when it comes to picking their team, I have also pushed back on unqualified nominees and hacks," he wrote. "Gigi Sohn is a complete political ideologue who has disdain for conservatives. She would be a complete nightmare for the country when it comes to regulating the public airwaves."

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2021/11/republicans-fight-biden-fcc-pick-gigi-sohn-claim-shell-censor-conservatives/

11Nov2021;9:38am

I almost overlooked this which also affected my thoughts today:

Quote:

"A bipartisan group of lawmakers in the House of Representatives introduced a bill that would force social media platforms to allow people to use the site without algorithms that filter or prioritize the content that users see. The bill joins a similar act proposed in the Senate, and together, the bills suggest that lawmaker animus toward social media companies isn’t going away...

“Facebook and other dominant platforms manipulate their users through opaque algorithms that prioritize growth and profit over everything else,” Rep. Cicilline said in a statement. “And due to these platforms’ monopoly power and dominance, users are stuck with few alternatives to this exploitative business model, whether it is in their social media feed, on paid advertisements, or in their search results.”...

The bill would require social media sites to post a notice the first time a person interacts with an “opaque” algorithm. The notice would give users the option to turn the algorithm off. The bill defines an opaque algorithm as one that “determines the order of manner that information is furnished to a user... based, in whole or in part, on user-specific data that was not expressly provided by the user to the platform for such purpose.” Social media companies would also be required to offer a setting so users could toggle the use of such algorithms. Social media companies would no doubt wrap words around those settings that would discourage people from using them, but for savvy users, the bill could open a new way of using social media..."

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2021/11/bill-proposes-algorithm-free-option-on-big-tech-platforms-may-portend-bigger-steps/

11Nov2021

LEGAL NOTICE: I NEVER AT ANY TIME AUTHORIZED ANY GOOGLE PAY APP TO STORE MY CARD NUMBERS. YESTERDAY AND TODAY I READ ALERTS THAT GOOGLE HAD STORED 2 OF THEM WITHOUT MY KNOWLEDGE ON THE PHONES OF PEOPLE WHO WERE NEVER AUTHORIZED ON ANY BANK ACCOUNT OF MINE. I WILL NOT BE RESPONSIBLE FOR ANY CHARGES OR FEES INCURRED BY CRIMINAL HACKERS OR I.D. THIEVES, NOR WILL I BE RESPONSIBLE FOR ANY "GOOGLE PAY APP" CHARGES BECAUSE I NEVER SET UP GOOGLE PAY ON ANYTHING AT ANY TIME.

I am REPUBLICAN and I am prolife. That combination is intended to trigger the algorithms that filter out/remove from the web those who don't go along to get along with the tyrant in office. This post is a political protest.

I have also updated other blogs of mine recently,and each is unique created one by one by me, including https://artist-gloriapoole.blogspot.com

https://mini-exhibition.blogspot.com

https://gloriapoole.blogspot.com

https://save-the-baby-humans.blogspot.com

https://real-women-have-babies.blogspot.com

https://publishing-life.blogspot.com

https://gloriapoole-RN-artist.blogspot.com

https://salvation-is-free.blogspot.com

https://gloria0817.blogspot.com

https://gpoole817.blogspot.com

https://prolife-nurse.blogspot.com

https://gloriapoole-paintings.blogspot.com

https://cartooning-by-gloriapoole.blogspot.com

https://lifes-entertainment.blogspot.com

https://news-for-life.blogspot.com

https://gloriapoole.tumblr.com

http://gloriapoole.livejournal.com

https://sites.google.com/site/lifetv

https://gloriapoole-UK.livejournal.com

http://glorias-writing.medium.com

https://sites.google.com/site/PooleGloria

https://sites.google.com/site/paintingsofgloriapoole

https://tapestry-of-life-LLP.blogspot.com

COPYRIGHT NOTICE: I, Gloria Poole, Registered Nurse, artist, photographer, cartoonist, writer, author, drew, painted, signed, photographed, uploaded and copyrighted ALL art AND PHOTOS ON EVERY BLOG OF MINE regardless of where I lived at the time and regardless of the year. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED IN COPYRIGHT LAWS OF USA, EU AND UK TO ME GLORIA POOLE / gloriapoole / gpoole817/ gloria0817/ Ms Gloria Poole,/"Poole,Gloria"; gloria-poole; gloria_poole; gloria.poole/gloriapoole.RN/ gloriapoole_RN/ 11Nov2021 at 11:41am.

Posted today after thinking on this for about an hour. Promoting the ability to think for one's self is what all good people should do. Posted by me Gloria Poole, RN, artist, cartoonist, writer, author, today 11Nov 2021 at 11:44am, using my own computer and router and the internet that comes into my apartment in Springfield Missouri, to write this. For the record, I am a white, woman, U S citizen by birth , college educated twice; divorced-twice, single-again, and I have lived in this same apartment in Springfield Missouri since Oct 2018.

Open Letter to U S FTC, FCC, FBI, and Justice from me Gloria Poole in Springfield Missouri

This open letter to the U.S. agencies Federal Trade Commission, Federal Communications Commission, Federal Bureau of Investigation, and the Dept of Justice is intended to help millions of U S citizens, and is written by me because it involves events that have been forced upon me in an unlawful manner. I am making a public record of this for myself but for every woman who is a victim of violence by an intimate "partner"[husband; ex-husband; boy friend;date] and for "liberty and justice for all" . I have these questions I would like somebody with the power to investigate and prosecute the people involved, to publicly answer these questions in some way, and to follow up so changes are made that help vulnerable women and children.

My questions of you all are:

1) Why are telephone carriers allowed to hire people who handle confidential information, bank, credit cards and set up phones, who had no background check?

2) Why are some telco companies allowed to exploit women who are victims of violence who have a handicap as a result of violence?

3) Why have telco carriers allowed to slough off prepaid customers, or use treachery and deceit to attempt to force them into a post-paid plan?

4) Why is ATandT allowed to label prepaid refills, on their automated system, as "payments"? The word "payments" implies an obligation, a legal contract. Refills are NOT payments but refills. They are not owed to the carrier. They are supposed to be applied in full to the prepaid phone not "shared"with the carrier or the carrier's employees. All prepaid phones have to be bought upfront before leaving the store with them. There are NO payments due on prepaid phones. The purpose of prepaid is to not pay for more than is needed, and to have the flexibility to add more money as needed. And not have unexpected " overages".

5) Why does ATandT ASSUME all prepaid customers who are white,women, U S citizens speak a language other than English? Is not English the language of these United States any longer? I think I have told ATandT I speak ONLY ENGLISH several times every month for about 13 years yet they begin their conversation with me in foreign language. WHY?

6) Are all telcos located outside the continental United States and the retail stores visible in cities are fronts? Clerks in those stores don't seem to have a clue how to put the telephone number from a large SIM card onto a new nano-SIM that came preinstalled in a new " upgrade" even when I showed them the paper receipt, the box it came in and both phones, where I bought the upgrade at a retail store. Do carriers not honor their own logos and brands?

7) Why are ATandT clerks allowed to remove [and in 2 instances, keep secretly] the preinstalled or previous SIM and substitute a fake one, known in the law, as SIm-Jacking? Why is the customer who has the old phone with old SIM and the new phone with new SIM branded ATandT considered to be in the wrong if clerk destroys old SIM, puts in fake SIM in new üpgrade"keeps preinstalled SIM?

8)Why are telcos not expected to honor their own branded merchandise bought legitimately in a retail store such as "big box retailers" for affordable price, [as opposed to phones sold in ATandT for nearly a thousand ]? Are those big box retailers selling fake phones? Or do they have an agreement with telcos? And if so, why does ATandT retail stores'clerks say they cannot put number on SIM bought in store other than ATandT retail? Or even the phone ATandT ships to customer? Are ATandT clerks taught skills? or are they mere appearances of staff?

9) In what other industry does the seller of any product sold in the U S. have the audacity to coerce their customers to buy new something when the seller wants to sell it? Can car dealers lock buyer out of the vehicles they buy, deprecate vehicles' software, make it unusable, contact buyer to tell them they MUST bring car back to that seller and they MUST buy new car from that seller? Can appliance sellers do that? Can any other industry in US use strong-arm tactics to force consumers to buy anything? ATandT intercepted [redirected, forwarded my calls on 2 prepaid phones of mine to themselves to prevent me from using my phones that I bought and activated YEARS ago,] that were working til ATandT decided to try slam my numbers to a murderer, and then tried a bait and switch manuever to try trick me out of my number. ATandT did swindle me out of my iphone number that I bought when I bought my Virgin Mobile iphone [consumers buy their tel nums with Virgin Mobile] and they did swindle me out of 1 virtual number of mine through tricks and deceit, and SIM jacked 1 of my SIMs for 1 of my 2 virtual numbers I paid CenturylLink for,when I went to buy an upgrade smartphone to port those virtual numbers too. I paid for those 2 virtual numbers for about 10 years as part of a post-paid CenturyLink landline, listed in telephone directory, telephone/internet account when I lived in Columbia Missouri for years 2008-2018. ATandT seems to have a corporate culture of swindling women. Why is that legal in US?

10) Why must prepaid customers in the United States, who bought prepaid phones in the United States, be forced to communicate with unknown persons [clerks in call centers] in foreign countries who ask for confidential info and have access to bank card info? Why must citizens of the U S get permission to use the " upgrades" they bought upfront by asking Latin America is it ok? Has United States become a territory of Mexico?

11) Why are cell phone carriers allowed to publish endless propaganda about how necessary 5G is to the United States? The United States does not force all citizens to buy the latest, most expensive model of vehicles to use the highways. The United States does not force citizens to buy the newest, most expensive refrigerator, or T.V. so why is the assumption that cell phones [still a luxury, not a necessity] are a different category of product? Where is the FTC on these issues?

12) Why are telcos publishing lie after lie about 5G? It is not even operational in huge swaths of the nation. The so-called 5G phones which has the only obvious advantage to the merchant of being much more expensive, have a switch that says if you turn off 2G you may not get a signal in some places. 5G is not the saviour of these United States. The U.K. in BBC article recently said their infrastructure will be 2 G for at least another 10 years. Where is truth in telephones concept about marketing? Why are telcos telling public 5G is more secure when cell phones/smartphones are RADIO air waves that float through air, with no real security? P> 13) Why must so-called " upgrades" result in the loss to the consumer of all photos, messages, content on the previous "old" 4G ,3G, 2G phones? Why should consumers have to accept that "deal"of more expense to them, no better service, and loss of content they created in some cases over years of time? Is that supposed to be a good deal for consumers?

14) Why are telcos not expected to put all old, previous content from old/previous iteration of cell phones/smartphones onto new upgrade for the customer? What happened to customer service in the telephone industry?

15) How much power does the Union of Communications Workers exert on prolife citizens? Do they cause these problems?

Update few minutes later to add this: I created a simple website years ago to publish some of the gospel to the world. Google, GOD bless them, kept it for me all these years and put it on their upgraded platform for me. You can see it/ read it here:

Http://sites.google.com/site/wordsthatworkforthegloryofgod.

And also http://sites.google.com/site/wordsthatwork

If links do not work copy and paste url into your browser please.

Also, for the record, I also have T-Mobile phones and a "home phone"on U S Cellular. And thank GOD since some phones are becoming iffy as certain telcos try to coerce me into their schemes.

Posted today 26 Sept 2021 at 8:44am by me Gloria Poole,Registered Nurse, artist, writer, cartoonist, photographer at times, mother of 2 grown daughters, and white, christian, woman, twice-divorced and single-again. I , gloriapoole, Gloria Poole, am using my own computer, my own router in my own private apartment to write this, as usual.

Overcoming the devil takes perseverance --help FBI

This apartment, this computer and the internet that comes into it, and everything in this apartment and this account and all telephones associated with it belong solely to me Gloria Poole,Registered Nurse, artist of and in that very same apartment. I am putting this back on line after a criminal stalker broke into my internet,into my computer and into my account for this blog yesterday.I intend to make it known to FBI that stalkers are stalking me on the web. Here is what I posted yesterday and read it , then read what I added today at the bottom as an update.

A profile page for me Gloria Poole,R.N., artist, writer , owner of this blog: https://words-that-work-llp.blogspot.com/p/blog-page.html.

I noticed this morning that my previous post I put on this entitled why are Fortune 500 companies silent on hack of their customers?, and they hacked my computer and took that post down. So, I had to do about 10 steps to get it back. There are laws that require publicly traded companies to alert thier investors and accounts that they were hacked. There should be laws requiring private companies to do the same. If the internet is to be trusted for commerce, it has to have some integrity, honesty, trustworthiness, but often that is totally lacking. There are some FTC [Federal Trade Commission] laws and some FCC [Federal Communications Commission] laws that apply to the internet. President Trump was good about trying to protect intellectual property of U.S. citizens. Biden not so much. Biden is a socialist if not a communist and an evil man who believes killing of innocent human babies is a so-called "right", when GOD said it is a WRONG! Read Exodus 20:13, KJV, for proof.

Constant, unrelenting harassment of citizen journalists ESPECIALLY those who are university educated and who are advocates for unborn humans; and especially for white women, who don't have bosses or husbands and work for themselves is the internet "norm ". The internet is mysogynist, sexist, and ageist. Google wanted to know my date of birth and I thought about that, and thought to myself: Google knows everything about me. I have had this account for at least 15 years, so for them to ask now sort of raises the question of discrimination doesn't it?

I make a point of documenting when I am hacked, when my sites are taken down by criminals, when my contentis ripped off my computers/tablets/cameras/smartphones by criminal hackers. It is of necessity so my words can be used as testimony by prolife advocates, by law enforcement, by Google, by those who need to get search warrants to seize computers that have 10,000 photos that I photographed and uploaded that were ripped off my Apple computer.

Also, I am posting some of the current news of events that are sequealae of the Capitol [Washington DC] mob on 6th January 2021 but they are personally relevant to me but also to all who publish words, photos, on the web:

Journos: "soft targets?

NEW YORK -- While monitoring online chatter about protests at state capitols in advance of next week's presidential inauguration, the Seattle Times came across a chilling description for journalists: soft targets....

Gas masks and bullet-proof vests are being provided to Star Tribune journalists assigned to cover upcoming rallies, and they will be watched by security hired by the newspaper....

The Associated Press is prepared to cover Capitols in all 50 states, said Brian Carovillano, the organization’s vice president and managing editor.

“We’re not commenting on specific security precautions, other than to say the safety of our journalists is our No. 1 priority," he said. "We’re drawing on the expertise of a lot of people who have a lot of experience covering difficult and sometimes scary situations.”...

In many war zones, journalists make sure they are clearly identified as press so they are not mistaken for enemy combatants. It's a trickier call at demonstrations where some participants consider the press itself the enemy.

.... “It’s the AP’s mission to be there and bear witness when others can’t be there,” Carovillano said. “That’s basically our whole reason for existence.”

Read article at:

https://abcnews.go.com/Entertainment/wireStory/journalists-prepare-protests-targets-75295368?cid=clicksource_4380645_11_heads_posts_card_related

It was on web on 16Janu2021;5:54pm.

Pres Trump to exit White House as President:

"President Donald Trump will leave Washington next Wednesday morning just before President-elect Joe Biden’s inauguration to begin his post-presidential life in Florida....

"Officials are considering an elaborate send-off event reminiscent of the receptions he's received during state visits abroad, complete with a red carpet, color guard, military band and even a 21-gun salute, according to a person familiar with the planning who spoke on condition of anonymity ahead of a formal announcement.

Trump will become only the fourth president in history to boycott his successor's inauguration"

Article on web 16Janu 2021; 11:26am

"middle-class America is arming up"

I quote: "nearly five million Americans who have purchased their first firearm over the past 12 months, driving what analysts are calling the greatest gun-buying spree in the country’s history..."

“A gun is becoming more mainstream like buying a car.” he says. “Right now, I think people are in panic mode.”

Article at:

https://www.yahoo.com/news/protect-myself-case-civil-war-180219516.html

On web 16Janu 2021;11:34am

There is so much I want to say to these not-united states, and I just keep on keeping on. Those people who think a socialist baby-killing President is going to unite this country are either brain dead, stupid to begin with, or heathen people without consciences. I think the revolution as the Press labeled it will continue. Does that make me happy? No, but just as the nation was divided on the so-called right to own other humans as slaves, so is the nation divided on the subject of is there a so-called right to kill tiny, defenseless humans in the womb? It is not an issue that is going to be swept under the rug of government. A government that does not protect human BABIES is not a good government. A nation that pays for the premeditated murder of its own citizens with taxpayer dollars is not only a bad government but a government that is doomed to extinction.

I , gloriapoole, Gloria Poole , am a Registered Nurse with a license in Missouri and a creator of art, a photographer, a citizen journo of sorts. I pay attention to events, to attitudes, to news, and I compare those events I see/read about/ am informed of to the prophecies and commandments in the Holy Bible. When the words of humans contradict the words of GOD, I obey GOD to the best of my ability. I am Christian since the age of seven. I posted this today 17 January 2021 at 10:34am from my own "private"apartment in Springfield Missouri with my own equipment.

Update tpday 18 Janu 2021 at 12:54noonish by me Gloria to restore this blog of mine to web:

Quote:"When asked about comments he made on Facebook that there's going to be "blood running out" of the Capitol if there are more demonstrations, and whether he was afraid that more people could die, Griffin responded, "I am more afraid of losing my freedom than I am anything."

At another point, Griffin also says, "We're not going to allow it. There will never be a Biden presidency."

[And the outcome of that remark was: "]

Santa Fe, New Mexico — A New Mexico county official and founder of the group Cowboys for Trump, who vowed to return to Washington after last week's riot at the U.S. Capitol to "plant our flag" on House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's desk, was arrested Sunday by the FBI.

Otero County Commissioner Couy Griffin was arrested on charges of illegally entering the U.S. Capitol."

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/cowboys-for-trump-founder-who-vowed-to-return-with-guns-to-capitol-for-inauguration-arrested-by-fbi/

18Janu2021;11:14am

FBI is warning all 50 states to be on high alert for possible violence ahead of ..inauguration"; & FBI is using GPS tracking of suspected persons at Captil on 6th Janu 2021;

CBS news; 18Janu 2021; 11:22am

"U.S. Secret Service tightened security in and around the Capitol a week early in preparation, and the city center is essentially on lockdown with streets blocked, high fencing installed and tens of thousands of National Guard and other law enforcement officers stationed around the area."

https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/wireStory/inauguration-rehearsal-evacuated-fire-homeless-camp-75321866?cid=clicksource_4380645_6_heads_hero_live_twopack_hed;

18Janu 2021; 11:07am

"The video captures rioters hunting for lawmakers and, finding none, photographing documents as "evidence," said Pape, a political scientist at the University of Chicago and director of the Chicago Project on Security and Threats. Pape said some people, particularly those giving orders, may have had military, law enforcement or "quasi-paramilitary" training.

He specifically pointed to a man carrying zip ties and wearing military fatigues, later identified as Larry Rendall Brock Jr., a retired Air Force lieutenant colonel who appeared to be giving commands to other rioters in the video. Brock Jr. was later arrested and charged with knowingly entering or remaining in a restricted building without lawful authority and violent entry and disorderly conduct on Capitol grounds, according to The New Yorker. "....Some people began taking photos of documents, and one man said he was trying to find something that he could "use against these scumbags.....

Later, Angeli can be seen taking photographs in Pence's chair and being confronted by a Capitol Police officer. He leaves a note for Pence that reads "it's only a matter of time, justice is coming" before leading a group in a prayer.

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2021/01/18/new-yorker-video-us-capitol-rioters-luke-mogelson/4198301001/

18Janu 2021;9:58am

VP Pence in hist last speech as VP details how Pres Trump did not get US in a "new war"with foreign countries:

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/pence-proud-trump-wh-avoided-engaging-in-new-war

18 Janu 2021; 10:03am

"the riot at the Capitol last Wednesday featured partisans of the long-gone country of South Vietnam, Falun Gong adherents, end-times Christians, neo-Nazis, QAnon believers, a handful of Orthodox Jews, and Daniel Boone impersonators.

The boogaloos weren’t a huge presence in that mob. But according to federal officials, the attack on the Capitol has galvanized them and could inspire boogaloo violence in D.C. and around the country between now and Inauguration Day."...

he boogaloos don’t appear interested in fighting for Donald Trump—they tend to despise him, mostly because they think he panders to the police. But for the past year, boogaloo bois all over the United States have been cheering on the country’s breakdown, waiting for the moment when their nihilistic memes would come to life and the country would devolve into bloody chaos....They’ve already shown up heavily armed (and in their signature Hawaiian shirts) at protests and at state capitols. They’ve allegedly killed law-enforcement officers, talked about throwing Molotov cocktails at cops during the racial-justice protests this summer, and plotted to kidnap Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer. They say they want a total reset of society, even if they haven’t thought very hard about what, exactly, should come next.

Who are the boogaloo bois? And why do they want to start a civil war? ...

Let’s start with what boogaloo isn’t. It isn’t, mainly, a white-supremacist organization, though there are some white-supremacist boogaloo bois. It isn’t a collection of Trump supporters ready to fight for the president, like, say, the Proud Boys. And despite the various attacks—planned or carried out—against police officers and government officials, boogaloo also isn’t a militia in any traditional sense of the word....it's more like... internet culture propagated by libertarian-leaning gun enthusiasts on 4chan—the anonymous, Wild West version of Reddit—that has somehow moved into the real world. It’s jargon and memes and jokes and a sometimes-serious desire to bring about a violent revolution to overthrow the U.S. government....The term boogaloo, for example, can refer to the purveyors of this culture or to an event: a violent revolution some of them hope to hasten, dubbed Civil War 2: Electric Boogaloo....

In April, Swenson posted on Facebook—reportedly using the name “Arnold Derpingston”—that he felt “like hunting the hunters.” Translation: looking for police officers to kill. According to authorities, he then live-streamed himself driving around for about an hour with two pistols, a shotgun, and a bulletproof vest. ...They equate Black Lives Matter with Marxism,.."

Read entire article :

https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2021/01/boogaloo-prepare-civil-war/617683/

18Janu 2021;10:05am

Is "Popular chat service Discord" [quote per WSJ] the new "social media?:

"On Discord, anyone can create a private chat room—a “server,” in Discord parlance—and invite friends in to talk live via video, audio or text and to share pictures and videos. This made Discord a content free-for-all that many parents have been leery of allowing their children to access"

https://www.wsj.com/articles/discord-chat-app-is-safer-now-for-kids-but-still-lacks-parental-controls-11610805602

18Janu2021;10:16am

Microsoft Teams records every activity & scoops ur user info:

"From what I could see, Teams hoovers up all your chats, voicemails, shared meetings, files, transcriptions, your profile details including your email address and phone number, and a detailed analysis of what you were wearing on the call. (I may have made up that last one.)"...

Microsoft offered a little more about the Teams Activity Report (since updated). Here's a sentence that's unsurprising but still a touch uncomfortable: "The table gives you a breakdown of usage by user." Everything from how many meetings that user organized to how many urgent messages they sent is recorded. Separate numbers are given for scheduled meetings and those that were ad hoc. Even individuals' screen-share time is there....Microsoft is measuring privacy settings, device types, time stamps, reasons why someone may have been blocked, and "the number of messages a user posted in a private chat." {My comment: in reading the article here is partial list of what info MSN Teams sends to your boss: ur username, channel messages, replies,posts, chat messages, urgent messages, total meetings u attended; mettings scheduled, meetings ad hoc; meetings participated in, meetings ad hoc participated in; ]

https://www.zdnet.com/article/i-looked-at-all-the-ways-microsoft-teams-tracks-users-and-my-head-is-spinning/

18janu2021; 10:31am

& more on boss surveillance in the name of covid prevention:

"Then there's the potential differentiation of employees by age and relative health. One can understand the logic, just as one fears the implicit discrimination. Moreover, intimate details of one's personal health and well-being -- including mental, perhaps -- will suddenly become the business of your employer...."And we all surely know that once such systems are installed, they have a habit of never actually disappearing. Because too many companies these days enjoy not merely employing human beings, but controlling them. (I am not specifically referring to Amazon.)"

https://www.zdnet.com/article/going-back-to-the-office-new-spying-tools-are-waiting-to-greet-you/

18Janu2021; 10:34am

Health care: "The Massachusetts Department of Public Health announced Sunday that the state has seen its first case of the COVID-19 variant first discovered in the United Kingdom..."Surveillance testing for the B.1.1.7 variant has been ongoing at the Massachusetts State Public Health Laboratory in collaboration with clinical diagnostic laboratories and academic partners. Surveillance consists of genomic sequencing on portions of COVID-19 positive specimens.....“The public health risk reduction measures remain the same. Individuals must continue to wear masks or face coverings while out in public, maintain 6-foot social distancing, stay home when you are sick, and get tested if you have symptoms or are identified as a close contact.”"

https://www.masslive.com/coronavirus/2021/01/highly-contagious-covid-variant-detected-in-massachusetts-health-officials-say-boston-woman-became-ill-after-traveling-to-uk.html

18Janu 2021; 10:37am

Massachusetts advocating early retirement for long time teachers"because of covid:

https://www.masslive.com/news/2021/01/early-retirement-plan-for-longtime-teachers-advocated-amid-covid-pandemic.html

18Janu 2021;10:40am

"GENEVA (Reuters) - Global deaths from COVID-19 are expected to top 100,000 per week “very soon”, from more than 93,000 reported last week, the World Health Organization’s top emergency expert Mike Ryan said on Monday.

In an epidemiological update provided to the WHO’s exective board meeting, he added that the Americas region accounted for about 47 percent of current deaths."

who-says-expects-global-covid-deaths-to-top-100000-a-week-idUSKBN29N19T

18Janu 2021; 11:38am

Mike Bloomberg's & Sheldon Adelson's giving to political parties influenced the election: 18Janu 2021; 11:43am

Update posted today 18Janu 2021 at 1pm by me Gloria Poole,RN,artist of/in Springfield Missouri.

Why are Fortune 500 companies silent on hack of their customers?

I began my morning by read the first article and then the subsequent articles and I want to know the answers to why "Fortune 500 companies"who were hacked [per news reports ] when the US government was hacked have not informed their customers? Read the articles, my comments and my questions to understand this better.

"Reuters identified Cox Communications Inc and Pima County, Arizona government as victims of the intrusion by running a publicly available coding script here from researchers at Moscow-based private cybersecurity firm Kaspersky..."The breaches of U.S. government agencies, first revealed by Reuters on Sunday, hit the Department of Homeland Security, the Treasury Department, State Department and Department of Energy."

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-global-cyber/hackers-broad-attack-sets-cyber-experts-worldwide-scrambling-to-defend-networks-idUSKBN28S2V3

On web 19Dec2020; 8:17am

Congress says US govt massive hack is act of war":

(Reuters) - The suspected Russian hack of U.S. government agencies has led to heated rhetoric from lawmakers, with U.S. Senator Dick Durbin calling it “virtually a declaration of war” and U.S. Senator Marco Rubio saying that “America must retaliate, and not just with sanctions.”

But cybersecurity and legal experts said the hack would not be considered an act of war under international law and will likely go down in history as an act of espionage."[Question: wouldn't organized espionage of many US govt agencies be an act of war?]...

The breached federal agencies include the Commerce Department, Treasury Department, and Department of Energy."..

A Department of Defense law of war manual states that some cyber operations should be subject to the same rules as physical, or “kinetic” attacks. Examples include operations that “trigger a nuclear plant meltdown; open a dam above a populated area, causing destruction; or disable air traffic control services, resulting in airplane crashes.”

https://www.reuters.com/article/global-cyber-legal/explainer-u-s-government-hack-espionage-or-act-of-war-idUSKBN28T0HH

On web 19Dec2020;8:42am

The US govt hack also involved other countries:

"The type of web record, known as a CNAME, includes an encoded unique identifier for each victim and shows which of the thousands of “backdoors” available to them the hackers chose to open, said Kaspersky researcher Igor Kuznetsov."...

Microsoft, which was one of the thousands of companies to receive the malicious update, said it had currently notified more than 40 customers whose networks were further infiltrated by the hackers. Around 30 of those customers were in the United States, it said, with the remaining victims found in Canada, Mexico, Belgium, Spain, Britain, Israel and the United Arab Emirates. Most worked information technology companies, as well as some think tanks and government organisations."

[and from reading it also involved Pima County [Tucson] Arizona and Cox Communications which is in 19 states and has 607 service areas for internet via cable].

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-cyber/solarwinds-hackers-broke-into-u-s-cable-firm-and-arizona-county-web-records-show-idUSKBN28S2B9

& More on cyber-atttack against US govt:

"The bulletin from DHS' Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), represented the most striking assessment yet of a cascading threat to federal, state and local networks. "CISA has determined that this threat poses a grave risk to the federal government and state, local, tribal, and territorial governments as well as critical infrastructure entities and other private sector organizations," the bulletin stated."...

"At this point, the investigation has found that the malware has been isolated to business networks only, and has not impacted the mission essential national security functions of the Department, including the National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA). When DOE identified vulnerable software, immediate action was taken to mitigate the risk, and all software identified as being vulnerable to this attack was disconnected from the DOE network.”...

The system is used by hundreds of thousands of organizations globally, including most Fortune 500 companies and multiple U.S. federal agencies, which will now be scrambling to patch up their networks.

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2020/12/17/ongoing-cyberattack-poses-grave-risk-government-private-sector/3946658001/

On web 19Dec2020;8:49am

& more on that:

"some Trump administration officials acknowledged that other federal agencies — the State Department, the Department of Homeland Security and parts of the Pentagon — had been compromised."

Among those who use SolarWinds [malware-added] software are the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the State Department, the Justice Department, parts of the Pentagon and a number of utility companies"...

Two of the most embarrassing breaches came at the Pentagon and the Department of Homeland Security, whose Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency oversaw the successful defense of the American election system last month"

[My comment: does NY Times think all US citizens are STUPID? The breach was the voter manipulation that Trump talked about that was the method of electing"Biden falsely.]...

A government official, who requested anonymity to speak about the investigation, made clear that the Homeland Security Department, which is charged with securing civilian government agencies and the private sector, was itself a victim of the complex attack."...

Investigators were also focused on why the Russians targeted the Commerce Department’s National Telecommunications and Information Administration, which helps determine policy for internet-related issues, including setting standards and blocking imports and exports of technology that is considered a national security risk. But analysts noted that the agency deals with some of the most cutting-edge commercial technologies, determining what will be sold and denied to adversarial countries.

Nearly all Fortune 500 companies, including The New York Times, use SolarWinds products to monitor their networks. So does Los Alamos National Laboratory, where nuclear weapons are designed, and major defense contractors like Boeing, which declined on Monday to discuss the attack."

[Question: isn't Cox Communications a subsidiary of : "Cox Media Group, Inc. (CMG) is an American media conglomerate principally owned by Apollo Global Management in conjunction with Cox Enterprises, which maintains a 19.9% minority stake in the company. The company primarily owns radio and television stations—many of which are located in the South, Pacific Northwest, Eastern Midwest, and Northeast, and the regional cable news network Pittsburgh Cable News Channel (PCNC"?? According to :

en.wikipedia.org › wiki › Cox_Enterprises en.wikipedia.org › wiki › Cox_Enterprises

"Cox Enterprises, Inc. is a privately held global conglomerate headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia, United States, with approximately 55,000 employees and $21 billion in total revenue. Its major operating subsidiaries are Cox Communications, Cox Automotive, ... Governor Cox purchased the Atlanta Journal in 1939 as well as the WSB ..", they are.

Q2: why has The Atlanta Journal IGNORED this story about cyber-attack on them? https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/14/us/politics/russia-hack-nsa-homeland-security-pentagon.html

19Dec2020; 9am

& it seems some knew about the cyber attack in advance:

“After 9/11 we learned a lot about warning signals that weren’t spotted," Sen. Angus King (I-Maine), co-chair of the Solarium Commission along with Rep. Mike Gallagher (R-Wis.), told me. “In this case, the signals are gigantic neon signs. This is the longest windup for a punch in the history of the world. We know it’s coming but we just don’t know how or when.”

  https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/powerpost/paloma/the-cybersecurity-202/2020/06/30/the-cybersecurity-202-commission-s-plan-to-avert-devastating-cyberattack-faces-uphill-battle-9-11-era-officials-say/5efa223c602ff10807191592/;

19Dec2020; 9:39am

& " City officials quickly reached out to the FBI, the Department of Homeland Security and the Secret Service and experts in the private sector, including Secureworks, as well as incident response teams from Microsoft and Cisco. They also worked with staff from Atlanta Information Management (AIM) to identify the threat and its magnitude, and to protect the perimeter of the technology footprint." from Oct/Nov 2018: https://www.govtech.com/security/What-Can-We-Learn-from-Atlanta.html

Heritage Foundation was 1 of companies hacked when US govt was hacked:

https://www.heritage.org/cybersecurity/commentary/hack-us-agencies-fortune-500-firms-highlights-need-cybersecurity

19Dec2020; 9:44am

Fortune 500 companies were hacked too:

"Hackers penetrated Orion’s update system, introducing malicious code disguised as legitimate Orion updates, according to blog posts by FireEye and Microsoft Corp. The malicious vulnerability existed in updates between March and June, the company said. The hacking tool embedded within the update even stored stolen data within the Orion software as to evade detection, according to FireEye. The result was that hackers could snoop on a company’s network all while appearing as legitimate traffic"...

“The victims have included government, consulting, technology, telecom and extractive entities in North America, Europe, Asia and the Middle East,” according to FireEye. “We anticipate there are additional victims in other countries and verticals."

https://fortune.com/2020/12/15/solarwinds-hackers-u-s-agencies/

& more on how secretive the Fortune 500 companies are about informing their clients of hack that stole info:

https://techcrunch.com/2020/12/17/fireeye-breach-solarwinds-federal-agencies/

19Dec2020;9:52am

US DoJ requires that hacking into businesses be reported [https://www.justice.gov/criminal-ccips/reporting-computer-internet-related-or-intellectual-property-crime] so why haven't the Fortune 500 companies who were reported in several news reports as being hacked by SolarWinds/Microsoft hack, been publicly announced/reported so their customers are not blind-sided?

Also see https://www.ic3.gov.

19Dec2020; 9:55am

Posted by me Gloria Poole,Registered Nurse, artist;Springfield Missouri on 19th Dec 2020 at 10:41am.

Information Technology Glossary compiled by me Gloria Poole

This is part of an Information Technology Glossary I am compiling to help people who do not have computer skills understand the internet and computers. It is only a partial list and is the 4th set of glossary terms I have compiled in common language. It is not perfect nor complete but helpful I hope.

I.T. =information technology; a degree in some Universities and the science of creating, maintaining, sustaining, internet [ a world wide "traffic lane" so to speak]

C.P.U. =central processing unit of a computer. Think of as like the "brain" of the computer.

SSD is secure _______ ? device --a particular "chip" made similar to a radio's circuit board used in computers.

H.D. =hard drive; the physical, tangible part of the computer that is allocated into partitions, folders, files to "process" information fed into it either by humans or other computers.

Data processing means to take "input" and mush it around using algorithms/ formulas/math until it is in the form the computer or person wants.

Input is what you enter into a computer/tablet/smartphone.

Output is what the computer churns out. A quantum computer is a different type using both 0 & 1 simultaneously and can process billions of transactions/ second. Think of supercomputers such as IBM's Watson. "Normal' computers [a loose term since they are unique with different CPUS, different SSD's, different memory etc, can only use binary system of 0 & 1 one at a time. Meaning a switch is either on or off.

GiGO is computer science term meaning "garbage in garbage out", which means if you enter the wrong info you will get the wrong answer. Computers cannot think.

Algoriythm is a mathematical formula that in simplified language sets up a "if this [happens] then do that [task]. An example is "search words". If you enter words into Google's search engine, it uses algorithyms to detect them and decide which word in their vast vocabulary you are looking for. So if you enter word 'won" Google 's math formula will find that definition and display it on screen. So algorithym would be [very simplified] something like 'if string of characters is "won" then display string of characters "victory" [or whatever Websters or other dictionaries would define won as]. But in computer code of course. Some computer instructions are human readable; some are not.

Human-readable means not encrypted, in plain language readable by anyone who sees it.

ROM means readable only memory.

RAM means random access memory.

AFP means Apple [computers ] 's Filing Protocol. Each computer manufacture has many of its designation such as endings on file names. But much of internet is controlled by Protocols established by government agency N.I.S.T.

N.I.S.T means National Institute of Standards & Technology

G.P.U means Graphics Processing Unit using for computers with gaming and a higher level of graphics such as Apple iMacs.

iMac = Apple McIntosh computers

AES = Active Encryption Standard of NIST

DES = Data Encryption Standard which is not secure

DSA =Digital Signature Algorithym , a standard of NIST

[encrypt=then-authenticate is a better more secure standard than authenticate-then-encrypt is]

FIPS-140 = NIST standard for general security for cryptographic software

ISO/IEC17799 Standard for info Security

MAC= message authentification code

PKCS#11 = Public key cryptography

cryptography= a coded language so that if a message is intercepted it cannot be read. It depends on how complex the code is if the US govt can break code. The FBI recently announced their agents broke the code on a new iphone [of a criminal on their wanted list] An example would be [I am just now making a pretend code not real code to illustrate] if the combination of letters eqp+2+y meant the letter A.

X.509certificate a standard produced by A.N.S.I. { I think that means American National Standards institute but not sure, google it]

CBC-Mac (CCM) means encryption that provides message secrecy & integrity.

T.L.S means transport Layer Security; a standard of J.E.T.F.

OWASP = open web application Security Project

RFID means radio frequency identification and has a universal icon of a L on left w/ capital ltrs RFID inside the L shaped line, and on top right side of letter d is a dot & 2 curved lines emanating from dot, indicating that RFID transmits radio frequency; it is a transponder in standards lingo i.e a transmitter and a receiver of radio waves put into a tag. Example is those gadgets in retail stores that have to be removed by cashier. Another example of a larger RFID is the "black box" on airplanes with a much stronger signal so feds can track planes.

transceiver both transmits & receives radio signal [wi-fi and cell phones are both radio devices]

ISO7816 is protocol for smart cards

IVR = Interactive Voice Response

U.S.S.D [forgot what abbrev stands for] is a code sent by text message via radio /cell phn/smartphone that begins with * and ends with # ; & that works on GSM Protocol to signal the carrier to enquire about something.

GSM is satellite ; off top of head cannot remember what the G & M stands for in abbrev.

VPN = virtual private network; creates a secure encrypted tunnel for communications to pass through.

IEEE802.11 is wi-fi protocol or one of them.

BCD = Boot Config Data

Ethernet = wired computer to a wired modem. All tech people say it is much more secure than wireless or wi-fi. Open wi-fi such as in coffee shops is never secure. Do NOT put confidential [such as bank cards] on open wi-fi ever.

pA = processor architecture

pgP ="pretty good privacy" an open source security protocol; open source means anybody can view & edit the code; that has the tendency to keep them honest because people reviewing the code are usually engineers and high tech people [but not always, criminal hackers alter code too in illegal ways to break into computers, internet, secure websites such as banks etc]

CHKDSK =mean 'check disk for errors; a Microsoft Windows command on terminal

DiskPart means disc partition; All computer manufacturers separate the hard drive into partitions and they sandbox the o.s. [operating system] to isolate it, trying to prevent it being hacked.

sandboxing means putting an electronic moat or think of wooden rails around a sand box to contain the sand. It is the method by which manufacturers contain the o.s to maintain its integrity. It is not fail safe however unfortunately.

API means application programming interface

FDMA means analog frequencies on radio

TDMA means frequencies 800mHz or 1900 Mhz.

CDMA means radio frequencies 1850 & 1990 MHz

Quad-based phone means it uses all frequencies 850, 900, 1800, & 1900 Mhz radio frequencies.

PCS = personal communication system [think smartphone] --a computer that is handheld [includes tablets, PSP gaming, nintendo, various others] thaat sends & receives radio frequencies.

ad hoc means the signal jumps from device to device such as from PSP to laptop etc etc; it is used often in gaming and is NOT secure.

3G means standards UMTS, WCDMA, HSDPA, EVDO.

LTE = 4G ;forgot what abbrev means

Posted by me Gloria Poole, Registered Nurse, artist, author, illustrator, cartoonist at times, writer of words; from my own private apartment in Springfield Missouri from my own personal equipment today 3rd July 2020 at 7:54am, central time.