Oh Here We Go

Bank Executives "Concerned" About "Devastating" Russian Cyber attacks

What a bore these people are. Boring? What makes somebody boring, then?

Predictability.

Just kill us the honest way, why don’t you?

This Waiting Room Of All You Shall Lose is really growing stale, after more than two years.

”CrowdStrike CEO George Kurtz said that bank executives in the United States are concerned about the possibility of devastating Russian cyberattacks.

The widely-condemned invasion of Ukraine has resulted in the US ordering sanctions against Russia. But Russia has indicated that it plans to retaliate, with the country's Foreign Affairs Ministry responding that its country would take steps "finely tuned and painful to the American side."

And cybersecurity experts like Kurtz have predicted that at least part of Russia's response will involve cyberattacks against American businesses and government entities. Authorities have suspected that Russian-backed outfits have committed a number of major cyberattacks in recent years, including the 2020 SolarWinds attack that featured hackers planting malware on the company's software. CrowdStrike ended up working with SolarWinds to deal with the attack, and in 2021, Kurtz told Insider that "really need to alter their game in the public and the private sector."

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Let me guess, bank executives: When this “happens,” it will make our money vanish, not yours. Oh and the US infrastructure that “could have better cyber security…”…naturally it took THIS to start admitting THAT.

AND it’s an abject, transparent lie.

How’m I doing?

Tired of all this worry-Churching.

Media: Satanic Temple Of “Worry.”

Money is sometimes important but it’s a good idea to learn to live on very little, which I have. One of the many gifts of supposed reputation assassination and economic ruination. It’s fine. It’s a Baptism. And I am lousy about it and I do intend to improve.

I made a promise a long time ago, never to give money any piece of my soul, and if that makes me irresponsible, I’ll accept the accusation.

Money just doesn’t interest me that much. I am motivated mainly by the panic that ensues when I totally run out. It seems to me that having money can be ruinous and so can having none. It also seems to me that money is not entirely “real.”

In any case, this headline made me enraged, as you can see. I’m all messed up now.

And yes, many of you are within your rights to say: “Celia, told you so. Cyber attack.”

Oh wait, I know why I’m so angry.

In 2020, I was persuaded to hire a “cyber security expert” once to rescue my original website The Truth Barrier, after it was taken hostage by two criminals, twin brothers. Before you get conspiratorial: I hired them. (Let’s hear it for Craigslist. And my stupidity.)

And then, when my site was going down in flames, (13 years of writings) and GoDaddy was busy helping the criminals by refusing to let me prove I was myself by any means, I was persuaded to hire a VERY expensive cyber-security wizard. Something like $4,500 for some “intel” but this did not buy the survival of my site.

I can’t even talk about this. The site’s gone.

And here’s the good news: Had this disaster not happened, had brilliant Chris not adamantly suggested Substack, we wouldn’t be here. Misfortune sometimes is truly not as bad as it seems, and can birth so much that other side would not have happened.

But back to my rage.

I can’t even bring myself to call “GoDaddy,” (what a terrible name btw) because it was an infuriating experience even under the best of circumstances. (Meaning, when I still had a site, before it was gone, vanished.)

The only answer is to get attached to virtually nothing material.

I have been blessed with a generosity from angels near and far that far outstrips these robberies—that heals and reverses them. I think I need to give more thanks. Way more. How do you thank people who saved your life, who showed you love?

You try to get Big and Strong and then Pay Love Forward, that’s how.