Re: BEg2 chapter 15 Igor’s Limo

[Mark Kohut]

And from that aforementioned article, another example of America's TOTAL
bullying:
"The discussions at the Justice Department and the F.B.I. continued until
last summer, when the F.B.I. finally decided not to deploy the NSO weapons.
"

Two corrupt institutions stumbling into a Rule of Law decision, of course.
Based on the Rights of citizens, human beings but really just a mistake.

On Sat, Jan 29, 2022 at 3:47 AM Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:

> Relevant to BE, Pynchon's nailing it as usual. Early if not quite
> prophetically so. This pull quote from the paragraphs below which are just
> part of a longer NYT article in yesterday's paper:
>
> "The criminal world had gone dark even as it was increasingly going
> global."
>
> "Since NSO had introduced Pegasus to the global market in 2011, it had
> helped Mexican authorities capture Joaquín Guzmán Loera, the drug lord
> known as El Chapo. European investigators have quietly used Pegasus to
> thwart terrorist plots, fight organized crime and, in one case, take down a
> global child-abuse ring, identifying dozens of suspects in more than 40
> countries. In a broader sense, NSO’s products seemed to solve one of the
> biggest problems facing law-enforcement and intelligence agencies in the
> 21st century: that criminals and terrorists had better technology for
> encrypting their communications than investigators had to decrypt them. The
> criminal world had gone dark even as it was increasingly going global.
>
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>
> But by the time the company’s engineers walked through the door of the New
> Jersey facility in 2019, t
> <https://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/03/technology/nso-group-how-spy-tech-firms-let-governments-see-everything-on-a-smartphone.html>he
> many abuses of Pegasus had also been well documented
> <https://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/03/technology/nso-group-how-spy-tech-firms-let-governments-see-everything-on-a-smartphone.html>.
> Mexico deployed the software not just against gangsters but also against
> journalists and political dissidents. The United Arab Emirates used the
> software to hack the phone of a civil rights activist whom the government
> threw in jail. Saudi Arabia used it against women’s rights activists and,
> according to a lawsuit filed by a Saudi dissident, to spy on communications
> with Jamal Khashoggi, a columnist for The Washington Post, whom Saudi
> operatives killed and dismembered in Istanbul in 2018."
>
> On Sat, Jan 29, 2022 at 1:09 AM Michael Bailey <
> michael.lee.bailey at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> “Maxine notices a Cyrillic bumper sticker, which as she is shortly to
>> learn
>> reads MY OTHER LIMO IS A MAYBACH, for this vehicle here turns out,
>> actually, to be a ZiL-41047, brought over piece by piece from Russia,
>> reassembled in Brooklyn, and belonging to Igor….”
>>
>>
>> https://youtu.be/DfcyUecHcVE
>> Nice bkgd music!
>>
>>
>> https://1cars.org/10425-zil-41047-specifications-modifications-photo-video-review.html
>>
>> “The Russian design team chose a different way – they decided to weld an
>> armored capsule, and then to build a car around it! Such a device is not
>> completely suitable for mass production, in connection with this, only 25
>> such armored capsules were made at the Kurgan plant. Of these, 5 were
>> designed for fire tests. This unique machine of the Likhachev plant has a
>> maximum degree of safety.”
>>
>>
>> Produced in very small numbers for the highest officials / oligarchs.
>> Igor
>> is a big shot.
>>
>>
>> ZIL - auto manufacturing plant near Moscow started in 1916 now defunct,
>> demolished & per Wikipedia slated to be a real estate development site for
>> LSR, huge construction conglomerate.
>> --
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>>
>