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anyone see this? probably nuthin 2 it...
credit to Il_Bagattel
I came across this rather plausible scenario in a Signs of the Times post. They first posted a blogsite entry with comments, then a reader comment, and finally a NY Times story. Together they create an intrigueing chain of events and a possible reason for their happening as such. Here is a snipped cut/paste of the pertinent parts. Note the website editorial *comment* embedded in the NY Times story (and throughout). The one about the outlawing of alternative gold payment systems caught my eye:
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[...]I wonder what Fort would have made of this: in separate incidents last week, two helicopters fell into New York's East River.
The first helicopter, carrying sightseers, concerns us only as a precedent. (Accidents happen, but they also happen sometimes to be a template for attempted murder.) The second helicopter, however, carried "top executives of the financial services company MBNA Corp."
That's enough to merit attention most weeks. But the same week, MBNA made news when a "computer hacker" reportedly "accessed more than 40 million credit card accounts." This attack "was the latest in a series of security lapses affecting consumer information. The breach appears to be the largest yet involving financial data, said David Sobel, general counsel at the Electronic Privacy Information Center."
And like a helicopter in the East River, it doesn't begin or end there. Recent weeks have seen a bizarre rash of "security lapses" at commercial and credit institutions, with headlines like "Personal data on millions of Citigroup clients lost in transit" and "Fed bank insurer's worker data breached".
I don't know what it means, if anything. But I think only a fool could say with confidence that it means nothing.
I'm just feeling like a frog who was minding his own business in a pond, until suddenly, the bottom dropped out.
Look out below.
Reader Comments
8:45 AM
Anonymous said...
Connect the dots . . .
* CitiFinancial data lost
* Ameritrade data lost
* Bank of America data lost
* Time-Warner/AOL data lost
* 40M Mastercard accounts breached
* MBNA executives in the downed helicopter
Another 9/11, only not in the form of planes hitting buildings? Economic crisis, anyone? Or perhaps just another unfortunate coincidence?
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