I know right? 😂 Think they're just saying that to hide their involvement lol. they knew but didn't give Erik more details than he needed to know imo.

@@nycrsny3406 it's actually quite possible they were not told much. But to act surprised that you were not told the full story in espionage is like movie level funny

The entirety of europe baring 2 are vassal states of the united states

Imagine trusting the CIA...ever. Like...no that's just goofy. 😂

@@2rx_bni ah yes the glowies

It is strange, a lot of people were kept in the dark about this - even the Dutch prime minister wasn’t informed

Because the US doesn't even trusts it's "Allies" All thos fcking government agencies should be dismantled.

It's not strange, really. As an analogue, consider a construction site for a new house. At first there's land movers to flatten the ground. Then builders raise up the walls and roof. Then plumbers and electricians to make their job accordingly. Thing is, the electrician only does the electrical connections. He doesn't make the landscaping not build the walls to the house. He doesn't need to know how to build a house or what purpose the house is built for. He only have to know about his own specialization; where to put the plugs and route the wires. A job for a secret agent is no different. This guy only had to deliver the package and maybe something else, but do not have to know what exactly he's carrying or why. But on the contrary to the electrician, while it doesn't do any harm for him know something about landscaping, secret agents are a whole different thing. Any knowledge they have, does have a risk of falling into enemy's hands. If he doesn't know something, he cannot possibly leak the info. It is imperative he only knows things that are essential for him to carry out the mission; you know "need-to-know basis". Anything else is an unwarranted risk.

@@anteshellyou are right, for the agent there’s no need to know what he’s bringing inside the plant. But it’s being said (also in this video) that the AIVD didn’t even know what was about to happen. Of course we don’t know for sure who knew what at what specific moment, but let’s assume that they really didn’t know, then why didn’t they know? Perhaps the US and Israel didn’t want to tell the Dutch but I still consider “please don’t tell me so I don’t have to tell my superiors/have to lie to my superiors” a feasible scenario too.

Simple CIA basics 1o1. They never trust anyone, the only goal is to use other people for self benefits.

Wow very intersting if it's real

The AI supplemented visual cues are a bit much IMHO - still love the content but it feels a bit like a kindergarten class, pictures-with-words moment

Impossible because it was air gapped

@@JS-jr1fo of course that’s the intelligent way to set it up however in the real world engineering portals exist for programmers to access systems and install fixes/updates. I’ve seen major companies get hacked through these before when you would expect it to be air-gapped.

@@JS-jr1fo theres a stuxnet doco, i think on netflix, where they interview an anonymous shadowy figure who claims to have been a member of the TAO. He says that getting the exploit past the air gap wasn’t one of the major challenges of the operation and that they had multiple options on the table and it was just a matter of timing that dictated which one they went with. The major complication was building the malware to operate without any C&C and with minimal intelligence of network topology etc. most of the intel they got was from a short puff piece that IRAN put out which had B roll footage inside the facility.

I've heard countless times over the years that they infected a flash drive and just left it in the parking lot of the facility. One day someone was dumb enough to plug it into an internal system and voila.

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There are no redundancies on a bike. One thing goes wrong and you're toast.

True but we have no details of what happened. Could have also been something innocent like he hit a patch of gravel, or swerved to avoid something. No way to really say whether it was sabotage or not.

@@rideroftheforce5245 I agree. I’ve bailed 2 times. Once, hit a small patch of Sandy roadway and my front tire just went sideways… another, I took a left turn with shorts on and rear sets, my calf touched the tailpipe and out of pain/ not expecting the burn, while in the turn I pinned the throttle which straightened out my bike and I went into the curb. Both are examples of shit just happening lol so it definitely could have just been that.

It was karma

@@orion10x10 nha, it was fabricated.... kinda like karma, but different....

Not karma he was obviously killed off by the cia and mossad since he was a lead.

😂😂😂

Ask David Bombal & OTW to duplicate it. LOL! I just watched one of Bombal's videos where OTW described how Mr. Robot did the FBI phone eavesdropping hack in year 2 episode 5 using a femtocell that has already been done for real by a number of elite hackers. OTW even owns a femtocell he bought off of eBay for about $100 bucks that he & others are converting. He even showed the exact model that Erik used on the show. The only difference is that OTW was explaining how to do the eavesdropping while on Mr. Robot they were not only eavesdropping they were injecting malware into the FBI's phone system. I checked it out & you can still buy a wide variety of femtocells, like mini-Stingray systems, on Amazon, AliExpress & eBay - for varying prices depending on what capabilities the models have. The one OTW has is a Verizon one built by Samsung that you can get if you live in a dead zone or one with poor reception. Femtocells are just wireless access points to enhance WiFi reception. If you can get root (& pwds for older models are still known), flash their kernel with a more powerful Linux kernel than the one commonly used, you can easily set up a MiTM attack. You still have to decode SMS & Phone encryption (find the right codexes - or codices for the pedants - for your target), but Data is in the clear. This exploit, like pretty much every hack in Mr. Robot is taken from real life & predates its use in the show.

Airdrop was never secure, needs both WiFi and Bluetooth enabled and if you think Bluetooth was ever secure... please share whatever you are smoking. And yes I know "Legacy mode for the old AirDrop protocol (which only uses Wi-Fi) between a 2012 or older Mac computer (or a computer running OS X Lion through OS X Mavericks) and another Mac computer" didn't need bluetooth, but I am refering to the modern Airdrop version.

Technically it doesn’t reveal the info. You have to already know what the info could possibly be and then you can confirm it. Doesn’t really matter though, i bet iOS 17.3.1 will add some additional info to the sender number before hashing, so a database of phonenumbers cant be used to solve the hash

Why would Apple want to keep it forensically anonymous? That’s the opposite of a safe strategy for a business in 2024

@@windcorpOLEGSHA because they made the claim that airdrop doesn’t send the identity of sender, now there is a public exploit which contradicts this claim so in order to continue claiming ‘privacy is one of our core values’ they’ll have to patch it.

​@@windcorpOLEGSHA Apple has a history of keeping user data away from the government

thats wild bcuz if you know anything about intelligence agencies it was definitely #2 in your scenario

@@poindextertunes it wasnt 3 because iran doesnt have the ability to get to someone outside of iran.

1.a: the combination of stress from the situation+ being in a new place with unfamiliar roads and traffic patterns resulted in the accident

@@hefoxed Also, it's Dubai. The videos of crazy drivers coming out of there are just unreal even without any glowie shenanigans.

Def not #3. #1 is super probable and #2 super easy.

I’ve read elsewhere that it was a Siemens Industrial controller that was infected, i think they just used ‘pump’ in the article to dumb it down for non technical readers.

I was thinking the same

Me too! Heard it several times!

It doesn't seem like the hashes were intended to be secure, just an identity. And a salt is only useful if an attacker cannot access it. But this salt would be on every iphone.

@@CrazyStranger11 The salt is not secret. It is random for each use. Its purpose is to prevent the making of pre-computed lists of hashes, as this is now multiplied by the number of possible salt values, which is easily >4 billion for four bytes of salt.

@@JohnDlugosz I see, yep, I was mistaken. I see how salting could have made it actually anonymous, but it doesn't seem like that was Apple's intention in the first place.

I second this!! not only stress, but most of the time that also entails struggling to sleep.

this not true at all 😂

Doing ≠ Having. Having puts you on jail and a watchlist. Also further investigations to see if you ever did it. Doing puts you in jail without bailing out, a watchlist, and probably you're getting killed in prison by inmates. Also more investigations.

I wish I didn't have to be skeptical that he even had that... but our 'intelligence' agencies and 'police' have proven over and over to be criminals willing to do anything to get what they want. Maybe they just planted it to make up for them not really having a case. idk anything about the hacker, but it just sounds very convenient

@@somexnehow do you know this? 🙃

Probably planted by 3 letter agency

@@somexnemost sex offenders have protective facilities to prevent this, also the top most hated prisoners by statistics and most likely to be killed by other inmates are ANIMAL ABUSERS not child abusers surprisingly

i personally think that the stress and anxiety he experienced could've lead to that crash.

There aren't real world events free of coincidences.

Thats their usual MO, so it wouldn't be a stretch.

Dubai would absolutely be crawling with operatives given the geographical closeness to us military installations in neighboring countries and the lax enforcement of policies addressing money laundering simultaneously make it a hub for certain ne’er-do-wells working for intelligence and their expat targets. It’s basically the cantina from Star Wars. Like my synopsis?

Right?! for trained operatives, some of the decisions made by people shortly before they befall some kind of "accident" can be baffling You'd think that the US/The Netherlands would/should provide Asylum and protection, though if I was tasked with installing an infected water pump to an Iranian Nuclear facility I wouldn't be doing it without clearly written assurances and plans for after the operation for certain eventualities. Fucking Dubai 🤦‍♂ "Nothing to indicate possible intent " - Oh well that settles that then.

@@pistol0grip0pump you mean a paper commitment to protect you would stop a 3 letter agency from actually wiping you out as a loose thread, all the while they would deny such a commitment ever existed? The naivete. The guy was nervous for a reason nad I very much doubt he died without any connection to the case. The moral being, don't work for/with 3 letter agencies - they aren't loyal even to themselves much less to some 3rd party schmucks who do the dirty jobs for them.

The CIA killed him. His only objective at that time was to get his family out of iran but he had no way to know that the CIA decided to off him to tie up loose ends

@@pistol0grip0pump It's not baffling. Just follow the money. Suddenly all lifes oddities start to make sense.

The fact that you know about it means its certainly not the best

@@xDMG15x I know your mother, and she’s the best

@@Penultimeat the best malware? Omg, you really do know my mother 😱

ikr? what was that dude even thinking?

Good points. Means and motives and all that.

it totally makes sense. Did you overhear the part where he was upset and wanted to leave Iran immediately? There's a good chance he planned to go public with this information, just like Snowden. Imagine what kind of trouble he would've caused by exposing multiple agencies and cause an international uproar? If this info got out into the public, it would've ruined a lot of relationships with the US. It makes total sense that he was deleted for good.

Russia would like to talk with you

@@youtubyoutub2304America shits on every country when it comes to cyber

@@cane870 yeah that's why Midnight Blizzard hacked HP and Microsoft last year, and not just anyone, but their cybersecurity teams. "every country" for sure.

sus

He is reporting on an article. Its journalism. He isn't releasing this information he is just sharing an already public piece of information.

Same could be said for Iran, yet even more worse.

@@YeahNoTellTheTruth yeah but muh allies. Also, ever wonder why Israel, even though claiming to be an ally, persistently spies on us and steals our tech yet begs for money every year like it's some overshadowed stereotype? They have bombed our ships, took StuxNet and just decided they were the boss and orchestrated their own 9/11 on 10/07?

Something to think about 😂, look at them tunnels, who Epstein was linked with

@@emberframe6994 haha, I also think he said israel but meant Jews

If he was anxious too he might've been driving recklessly or not having his mind totally on what he was doing.

⁠@@Aeduonailed it, maybe it could have even been intentional, to protect his iranian family

He was an agent for an international spy agency, Im sure he knew how to ride a motorcycle without dying

​@@JS-jr1foknowledge only gets you so far when you share the road with idiots

​@@JS-jr1foyou can be the most skilled motorcycle rider in the world, but that skill still won't carry you to victory in a head to head deathmatch against an oblivious 2-ton+ chunk of metal on wheels

apparently, yes

I wish you were wrong.

Chat GPT answer AirDrop is a feature that allows Apple devices to share files wirelessly with each other. It typically works between iPhones, iPads, iPod Touches, and Macs. However, it doesn't require a cellular connection or an active carrier plan. If you have an older iPhone that is not currently on a cellular plan, you can still use AirDrop as long as the device supports the feature and is running a compatible version of iOS. AirDrop uses a combination of Bluetooth and Wi-Fi to establish a peer-to-peer connection between devices for file transfer. So, even without an active carrier plan, you should be able to use AirDrop on your older iPhone as long as it's capable of running the required software and has the necessary hardware (Bluetooth and Wi-Fi). Keep in mind that the availability of certain features might depend on the specific model and iOS version.

Google search answer Source 1 FAIK, Apple has not mentioned that a SIM card is required, only Bluetooth & Wi-Fi be enabled on both devices. Source 2 AirDrop doesn't require a cellular connection or SIM card. It also doesn't require a WiFi connection or an internet connection. All that is required is for Bluetooth to be enabled for discovery of nearby Apple devices

Seeing as the other two don’t mention it, i thought it would be useful to add that if you don’t have a phone number attached to the device then it will send the email address of your apple ID in place of the phone number. Airdrop has a setting that makes your device visible only to people in your contact list so there needs to be some identifier to match. I guess that would be a fairly safe option actually, especially if you were trying to be private about it and used a unique email address that ccp dont have in their hash list.

@@xDMG15x I don't know where you got your info from, but AirDrop doesn't need an AppleID at all to work. And yes, I just tried on a fresh phone, has not been logged into any AppleID, has no data on it, no email or phone numbers attached.

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Enlighten me, please

Yeah, motorcycle accidents never happen. Oh wait... they are actually quite common.

If you know anything about whats going on in china you would know everything said is warranted

I think they just used the word ‘pump’ so readers wouldnt get bogged down in the technical jargon. In reality it was a Siemens Industrial Controller for a water pump

The second is sometimes called "Stuxnet's Evil Twin." Though Evil is a relative term here, because what the US & Israel did to Iran is officially the first documented act of state-to-state cyber warfare - an unprovoked attack since Iran was still in compliance with the NNPT (Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty), signed by every nation in the world except Pakistan, India & Israel. North Korea backed out during GWB's first year because the US defaulted on parts of the deal Clinton had made with NK not to develop any more plutonium-based nuclear weapons (which, as far as we know, they were still abiding by).

LOL

No they really havent. The vast majority of chinese cyber attacks are low-tier phishing. While suprisingly effective, they aren't quite that advanced. Meanwhile, the US has a databases of 0-days for nearly every major software and OS to be used in the last 45 years. Including many built into the software, the standards, and in some cases even common hardware designs. Only israel is even close to parity with the USA, and then only because of the interchange of export-controlled tech, and Intel's ability to implement deep silicon backdoors. China has made strides here, but most nations know not to use chinese parts in critical systems. Their attack surface is mostly a low-level consumer one, for now. Who knows how things will change, even the 'best' koreans might make strides in e-war.

@@nobodynoone2500 they are the developers of hardware and software, they've literally designed all those "0 days"