Fifteen months into a wide-ranging investigation by the agency’s counterintelligence arm, known as Q Group, and the F.B.I., officials still do not know whether the N.S.A. is the victim of a brilliantly executed hack, with Russia as the most likely perpetrator, an insider’s leak, or both. Three employees have been arrested since 2015 for taking classified files, but there is fear that one or more leakers may still be in place. And there is broad agreement that the damage from the Shadow Brokers already far exceeds the harm to American intelligence done by Edward J. Snowden, the former N.S.A. contractor who fled with four laptops of classified material in 2013.
Millions of people saw their computers shut down by ransomware, with demands for payments in digital currency to have their access restored. Tens of thousands of employees at Mondelez International, the maker of Oreo cookies, had their data completely wiped. FedEx reported that an attack on a European subsidiary had halted deliveries and cost $300 million. Hospitals in Pennsylvania, Britain and Indonesia had to turn away patients. The attacks disrupted production at a car plant in France, an oil company in Brazil and a chocolate factory in Tasmania, among thousands of enterprises affected worldwide.
American officials had to explain to close allies — and to business leaders in the United States — how cyberweapons developed at Fort Meade in Maryland came to be used against them. Experts believe more attacks using the stolen N.S.A. tools are all but certain.
Inside the agency’s Maryland headquarters and its campuses around the country, N.S.A. employees have been subjected to polygraphs and suspended from their jobs in a hunt for turncoats allied with the Shadow Brokers. Much of the agency’s arsenal is still being replaced, curtailing operations. Morale has plunged, and experienced specialists are leaving the agency for better-paying jobs — including with firms defending computer networks from intrusions that use the N.S.A.’s leaked tools.
“It’s a disaster on multiple levels,” Mr. Williams said. “It’s embarrassing that the people responsible for this have not been brought to justice.”
Russia is the prime suspect in a parallel hemorrhage of hacking tools and secret documents from the C.I.A.’s Center for Cyber Intelligence, posted week after week since March to the WikiLeaks website under the names Vault7 and Vault8. That breach, too, is unsolved. Together, the flood of digital secrets from agencies that invest huge resources in preventing such breaches is raising profound questions.
Then there are the Shadow Brokers’ writings, which betray a seeming immersion in American culture. Last April, about the time Mr. Williams was discovering their inside knowledge of T.A.O. operations, the Shadow Brokers posted an appeal to President Trump: “Don’t Forget Your Base.” With the ease of a seasoned pundit, they tossed around details about Stephen K. Bannon, the president’s now departed adviser; the Freedom Caucus in Congress; the “deep state”; the Alien and Sedition Acts; and white privilege.
“TheShadowBrokers is wanting to see you succeed,” the post said, addressing Mr. Trump. “TheShadowBrokers is wanting America to be great again.”
Mr. Williams said it may be years before the “full fallout” of the Shadow Brokers breach is understood. Even the arrest of whoever is responsible for the leaks may not end them, he said — because the sophisticated perpetrators may have built a “dead man’s switch” to release all remaining files automatically upon their arrest.
“We’re obviously dealing with people who have operational security knowledge,” he said. “They have the whole law enforcement system and intelligence system after them. And they haven’t been caught.”
With the amount of Trump's posts today and this cryptic message, I think things are moving rapidly. Of course, I thought that at random times over the past 2 years but... Maybe there's some code in this as well. I notice Trump put "score" in quotes, and @01010001 (binary for 'Q') says "This is not a game". I don't know what the NYT did and you never know what the clowns in america are doing behind the scenes, but methinks it is getting interesting.
I think, there are cyberattacks that have happened and continue to happen. They get blamed on Russia without reason, then it turns out it’s actually somebody within ‘US’ us. Attacking things and collecting data because they can?
The overall theory I’m seeing is that Q has some very talented data collection teams and they have everything. By everything they mean everything, proof of all the fraud, crimes and illegal activities.
I've tried to follow some decoders as complex as serial brain and others more simple, and also started combining observations about the 8 types of smart - we all have some level of intelligence around logic, words, art, body/movement, music, self, others, nature (patterns).
Those who post the decodes seem to have a great level of logic and pattern recognition, so the conclusions feel obvious to them; meanwhile the rest of us need a little push to see significance and connect the dots. It helps me to try and wear a "military" sort of hat, where you look first for weapons or potential to use as a weapon, then go back and think about how it WAS used as a weapon. Because by the time we find out about anything, it's already been in play for years.
Lol OK bro. Tell me one time Gregg Phillips has made good when he promises the world. Oh what's that? Never? Oh yeah. Eventually you become desensitized to people that promise the world and never delivers, it's sad that you are still bamboozled by this idiot.
u/#q146
https://web.archive.org/web/20220727212121/https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/12/us/nsa-shadow-brokers.html a link to that article that's now behind a paywall
Use this for paywalls: https://12ft.io
This guy built a site that gets around paywalls. 12 foot ladder.
You forgot a /
https://12ft.io/
Wowsers. Thanks for posting! I didn't pick up on that being a direct Q quote.
Fifteen months into a wide-ranging investigation by the agency’s counterintelligence arm, known as Q Group, and the F.B.I., officials still do not know whether the N.S.A. is the victim of a brilliantly executed hack, with Russia as the most likely perpetrator, an insider’s leak, or both. Three employees have been arrested since 2015 for taking classified files, but there is fear that one or more leakers may still be in place. And there is broad agreement that the damage from the Shadow Brokers already far exceeds the harm to American intelligence done by Edward J. Snowden, the former N.S.A. contractor who fled with four laptops of classified material in 2013.
Millions of people saw their computers shut down by ransomware, with demands for payments in digital currency to have their access restored. Tens of thousands of employees at Mondelez International, the maker of Oreo cookies, had their data completely wiped. FedEx reported that an attack on a European subsidiary had halted deliveries and cost $300 million. Hospitals in Pennsylvania, Britain and Indonesia had to turn away patients. The attacks disrupted production at a car plant in France, an oil company in Brazil and a chocolate factory in Tasmania, among thousands of enterprises affected worldwide.
American officials had to explain to close allies — and to business leaders in the United States — how cyberweapons developed at Fort Meade in Maryland came to be used against them. Experts believe more attacks using the stolen N.S.A. tools are all but certain.
Inside the agency’s Maryland headquarters and its campuses around the country, N.S.A. employees have been subjected to polygraphs and suspended from their jobs in a hunt for turncoats allied with the Shadow Brokers. Much of the agency’s arsenal is still being replaced, curtailing operations. Morale has plunged, and experienced specialists are leaving the agency for better-paying jobs — including with firms defending computer networks from intrusions that use the N.S.A.’s leaked tools.
“It’s a disaster on multiple levels,” Mr. Williams said. “It’s embarrassing that the people responsible for this have not been brought to justice.”
Russia is the prime suspect in a parallel hemorrhage of hacking tools and secret documents from the C.I.A.’s Center for Cyber Intelligence, posted week after week since March to the WikiLeaks website under the names Vault7 and Vault8. That breach, too, is unsolved. Together, the flood of digital secrets from agencies that invest huge resources in preventing such breaches is raising profound questions.
WE HAVE EVERYTHING
Then there are the Shadow Brokers’ writings, which betray a seeming immersion in American culture. Last April, about the time Mr. Williams was discovering their inside knowledge of T.A.O. operations, the Shadow Brokers posted an appeal to President Trump: “Don’t Forget Your Base.” With the ease of a seasoned pundit, they tossed around details about Stephen K. Bannon, the president’s now departed adviser; the Freedom Caucus in Congress; the “deep state”; the Alien and Sedition Acts; and white privilege.
“TheShadowBrokers is wanting to see you succeed,” the post said, addressing Mr. Trump. “TheShadowBrokers is wanting America to be great again.”
Mr. Williams said it may be years before the “full fallout” of the Shadow Brokers breach is understood. Even the arrest of whoever is responsible for the leaks may not end them, he said — because the sophisticated perpetrators may have built a “dead man’s switch” to release all remaining files automatically upon their arrest.
“We’re obviously dealing with people who have operational security knowledge,” he said. “They have the whole law enforcement system and intelligence system after them. And they haven’t been caught.”
u/#q147
With the amount of Trump's posts today and this cryptic message, I think things are moving rapidly. Of course, I thought that at random times over the past 2 years but... Maybe there's some code in this as well. I notice Trump put "score" in quotes, and @01010001 (binary for 'Q') says "This is not a game". I don't know what the NYT did and you never know what the clowns in america are doing behind the scenes, but methinks it is getting interesting.
This is a BOOM week….for real!
NYT is scared shitless right now: https://thefederalist.com/2022/08/29/new-york-times-amplifies-misinformation-groups-talking-points-to-smear-truth-social-as-qanon-haven/
Also don’t forget project veritas is going after them as well.
September 3rd.....time is up.
think its getting warm in here???
Mega KEKs. August is usually a hot month.
Over tomorrow too.😲
Can someone break this one down? I'm not tracking.
I think, there are cyberattacks that have happened and continue to happen. They get blamed on Russia without reason, then it turns out it’s actually somebody within ‘US’ us. Attacking things and collecting data because they can?
The overall theory I’m seeing is that Q has some very talented data collection teams and they have everything. By everything they mean everything, proof of all the fraud, crimes and illegal activities.
Thanks, I wasn't getting the connection either.
I've tried to follow some decoders as complex as serial brain and others more simple, and also started combining observations about the 8 types of smart - we all have some level of intelligence around logic, words, art, body/movement, music, self, others, nature (patterns).
Those who post the decodes seem to have a great level of logic and pattern recognition, so the conclusions feel obvious to them; meanwhile the rest of us need a little push to see significance and connect the dots. It helps me to try and wear a "military" sort of hat, where you look first for weapons or potential to use as a weapon, then go back and think about how it WAS used as a weapon. Because by the time we find out about anything, it's already been in play for years.
Score = Scorecard?
Moves and Countermoves
Nice! That flashed into my mind as well.
Also interesting is he capitalized CEI.
https://casetext.com/case/cei-washington-bureau-v-dept-of-justice
my thought as well
What is the "+++ admonition" he is referring to
Why is Q146 from 11/12/17 relevant today
Did I type this incorrectly: https://12ft.io/https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/12/us/nsa-shadow-brokers.html ?
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🤯 thank you!
A++++++++
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You may wanna try again with the title.
? If you mean the spelling of Phillips, I thought I corrected it, but you can't edit after posting. Was there something else?
Can anyone hack news tickers?
News tickers? Now THIS sounds like fun. Honestly, I'm kind of expecting the white hats to have done that already and are waiting for the moment.
Can someone fill me in on who +++ is?
Warning, Gregg Phillips never pulls through or makes good on anything he says!
"Warning": Attempted character assassination in progress.
Notice the assassin uses poisoned words pretending to be facts.
Notice how many sources are offered. Notice how many reasons are provided.
Hopefully readers will react with prayers for Greg and for the anonymous assassin.
Lol OK bro. Tell me one time Gregg Phillips has made good when he promises the world. Oh what's that? Never? Oh yeah. Eventually you become desensitized to people that promise the world and never delivers, it's sad that you are still bamboozled by this idiot.
No they Bend over then sell their Souls for the Satanic Dough