tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3856837.post1021981648208014255..comments2023-10-24T09:06:30.200-04:00Comments on No More Mister Nice Blog: Steve M.http://www.blogger.com/profile/11963290427258439242noreply@blogger.comBlogger12125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3856837.post-29262250174316873182014-11-09T01:34:06.556-05:002014-11-09T01:34:06.556-05:00Thanks, Steve. I call it like I see it!Thanks, Steve. I call it like I see it!John Sawyerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11635133938408075683noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3856837.post-42303700221523452272014-11-08T11:17:51.579-05:002014-11-08T11:17:51.579-05:00Than you, John. I think you've got it exactly ...Than you, John. I think you've got it exactly right.Steve M.https://www.blogger.com/profile/11963290427258439242noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3856837.post-78885474523788988442014-11-08T01:51:46.308-05:002014-11-08T01:51:46.308-05:00Literally unbelievable. As some other commenters ...Literally unbelievable. As some other commenters have noted here, mouse or trackpad clicks can be clearly heard in her video (it's probably trackpad clicks--she's using an Apple Macbook Pro, whose entire trackpad is the clicker). She may not have even set up an external keyboard and/or mouse to pull this off, because you'll notice her video doesn't show the trackpad--at most, the bottom of the frame goes briefly to the lower row of keys, but doesn't go further down to show the trackpad, and while the text is being monkeyed with, she doesn't show the portion of the keyboard where the Delete key is located. But most tellingly, each of the audible clicks PRECEDES an action that can then be seen onscreen, such as pulling down menus and clicking buttons, so she can't claim that the undesired event first occurred onscreen, after which she clicked the trackpad to try to stop it. Obviously a remote hacker can't physically push on a mouse or trackpad clicker from a distance. She's doing it all herself, and she just didn't figure out that people know these obvious things. This says something about her state of mind, if she's so unaware that other people know such elementary things.<br /><br />In an interview that aired today (Nov 7) on MSNBC between Attkisson and Chris Hayes (http://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/chris-hayes-interviews-sharyl-attkisson-355291203735), Attkisson said some odd things about her video:<br /><br />Hayes: "I'm a little confused. Is the claim that that is documentation of some government entity hacking your computer in real time?"<br /><br />Attkisson: "No. Thank you for asking. And it was not released just to clarify a response to questions about the case, for example. It was just a video pre-release before the book came out. That I would call a visual anecdote of something that happened some months after, that three computer forensics exams confirmed these highly sophisticated intrusions.…What really happened, if you look in the first couple of seconds, pages were wiping in a matter of a couple of seconds--it wasn't a sort of backspace key, which doesn't exist, or a delete key on the computer being held down…"<br /><br />It's hard to tell what she's saying here. My first impression was that she's saying her video isn't a realtime capture of one of these supposed hacking events, but maybe a simulation she put together later as an example of what she claims happened. But a few minutes later into the interview, she says she took this video during a particular day when she was having trouble with her computer, and suspects it was due to some kind of hacking. She's also wrong when she says the first couple seconds show entire pages being wiped--what's actually shown are some words and several lines being deleted (with at most a paragraph being removed), and it also shows large portions of text merely being selected/highlighted, and then unhighlighted, without being deleted. And, there's the issue of her saying that a backspace key doesn't exist. This is true only in the sense that on a Mac keyboard, it's not labeled "Backspace", but "Delete" instead, but it performs the same function.<br /><br />I'm not going so far as to claim that her forensics experts must be wrong in their evaluation that she was being monitored at some point, but it's clear that this video proves nothing of what she's claiming they found, and shows every bit of evidence of having been faked by her.John Sawyerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11635133938408075683noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3856837.post-29355346582235861172014-11-02T15:39:35.919-05:002014-11-02T15:39:35.919-05:00I don't think it's a real hacking attempt,...I don't think it's a real hacking attempt, but she's not claiming this incident took place in 2012. She dates it as September 2013 (when the episode of DWTS aired) in the book: http://wapo.st/1wVs08EBixhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03924119954199649577noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3856837.post-88472760959571090462014-11-01T19:59:53.045-04:002014-11-01T19:59:53.045-04:00was her editor. He was getting rid of the garbage...was her editor. He was getting rid of the garbage she had just written by vnc.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3856837.post-46224097988146722792014-11-01T11:50:59.183-04:002014-11-01T11:50:59.183-04:00The consensus on the left seems to be a malfunctio...The consensus on the left seems to be a malfunctioning laptop, but I vote malicious fraud. She knows hat publicizing a book is a multimedia process these days. She needed a visual for Fox News and the Web. Just having files go missing wouldn't be visual. This, by contrast, is visually compelling. It'll play on a loop every time she's on Fox, or is discussed on Fox. And it's already gone viral online.Steve M.https://www.blogger.com/profile/11963290427258439242noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3856837.post-61037560985553176432014-11-01T11:35:41.348-04:002014-11-01T11:35:41.348-04:00Yas,
Probably both!Yas,<br />Probably both!Victorhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06609452382111686086noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3856837.post-53594240027436859472014-11-01T11:05:21.425-04:002014-11-01T11:05:21.425-04:00And the verdict is in. Either malicious fraud or s...And <a href="http://crooksandliars.com/2014/10/busted-sharyl-attkissons-hacked-video" rel="nofollow">the verdict is in</a>. Either malicious fraud or stupidity aggravated by fraudulence.Yastreblyanskyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08335868257729063363noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3856837.post-90150728354940738002014-11-01T08:20:27.119-04:002014-11-01T08:20:27.119-04:00Yes, she's telling the truth - because everyon...Yes, she's telling the truth - because everyone's first instinct when their computer goes ka-blooey, is to take your cell phone out and record what's happening.<br />Not shut the computer off, and reboot it.<br />No.<br />It's to record it.<br /><br />I call major BS!Victorhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06609452382111686086noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3856837.post-83101201903975455802014-11-01T06:44:53.659-04:002014-11-01T06:44:53.659-04:00The experts are right about stuck keys. I have had...The experts are right about stuck keys. I have had this very thing happen to me a handful of times over the years, although usually while using a web browser, so while the page scrolled wildly and uncontrollably, nothing was deleted. <br /><br />If you're paranoid and predisposed by months of hysterical Snowwald reporting to believe that the government is literally watching every move of every American, and if you have the amplified sense of victimization that all conservatives have, it's easy to see how in her delusional state Cheryl Attkisson thought someone was, you know, pressing a remote delete key while she was typing, in order to ... you know ... stop her from reporting bad stuff about them?<br /><br />How fucking delusional does a person have to be to believe this story?<br /><br />Sadly, tens of millions *will* believe it. They fell for all the Greenwald/Snowden lies and exaggerations; they'll believe the NSA is reading our screens as we typing and sharing control of our keyboard with us.<br /><br />These stories are going to send more than a few mentally ill people over the edge. Just as every cold is Ebola during the height of an Ebola panic, every minor computer malfunction is Obama tyranny during the height of Obama panic -- a panic now in its seventh year.Jackhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01894655800419937862noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3856837.post-51594060949592141422014-10-31T22:31:51.126-04:002014-10-31T22:31:51.126-04:00Indeed, why would a hacker edit her document inste...Indeed, why would a hacker edit her document instead of just deleting it entirely? Seems dumb.Glennishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03681336164718681936noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3856837.post-8963766617841765222014-10-31T19:11:13.029-04:002014-10-31T19:11:13.029-04:00Hey look it's tough trying to sell a book to c...Hey look it's tough trying to sell a book to conservatives these days. The competition is fierce. Any little gimmick to get a bit of publicity is all good, and it's not like anyone can prove she's lying.Ken_Lhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11709548046018362581noreply@blogger.com