Financial Security Versus Communications Security


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4:51 This is why it is surprising to me that the United Nations doesn't have any programme for enabling secure communications between member states and their people. It is pretty fundamental to the whole idea, but they seem to think that a handful of US corporations will do the best job. In 2019 the Russian government tried to set up international protocols to control international hacking but the United States, the UK and Europe were not interested and the CIA doubled-down on "cyber warfare" activities. Recently they passed a law permitting third-party contractors to engage in offensive cyber attacks on the government's behalf. See Angela Collier and Sage the Bad Naturalist Talking About the UK Government's "Protect and Survive" Pamphlet.

Markus Kuhn once informed me that financial security is more important than telecommunications security. Well, he should know because he is a computer security researcher and he works for GCHQ in the UK. The UK is a fanancialised economy, which means it earns foreign exchange by harbouring flight capital from all around the world, including Russia, and as a side gig, by peddling second-rate financial services, mainly money-laundering for the likes of Jeffrey Epstein and other national intelligence services through the likes of HSBC. See Glenn Diesen interview with Thomas Fazi. 

The thing is that the financial services the UK operates barely work because the telecommunications services are so poor. You have to communicate with them through a fuck-witted AI which as far as I can see is made up of a series of regular expressions nowhere near as sophisticated as you could do with awk. They can't accept email communication because it's unauthenticable, and they can't afford to employ enough agents (or even to find enough who are sufficiently illiterate, the ones I have communicated with have been borderline literate, to put it kindly) to answer the phones or to take the queries the AI can't manage, which is probably a very high percentage.

And this is happening while the high-street banks agglomerate faster than they can change their corporate logos.

By-bye Britian, I can't say it was nice knowing you. I wish I hadn't. 

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