1. SolarWinds - an IT monitoring company with the NSA, all five military branches of the Pentagon, and several major civilian agencies, had their software hacked by the Russian hacker group Cozy Bear yesterday, the same group responsible for the 2016 DNC hack.

2. SolarWinds uses a protocol called Orion Improvement Protocol (I believe this is a wrapper for RMON and SNMP calls), and this protocol was hacked at Treasury and NTIA, the National Telecommunication advisor agency.
3. As a veteran of hacking forensics, I always look at modus operandi by malicious groups and at human factor compromises as the first investigative avenues to pursue. My research partner Jen Moore discovered Pavel Yershov lead the 2016 attack for GRU also worked for Microsoft.
4. Interesting that Warren Flood also works for Microsoft Pro Services, and he was intimately involved in the 2016 DNC Microsoft GRU "Hack". Flood and his wife were instrumental in the Dominion Voting Machine purchases in Wayne County, Michigan and the State of Georgia,
5. Even more interesting that Warren Flood has worked for a long time for Joe Biden as has his wife.
6. We have also tracked two GRU hackers, Krylova and Bogacheva, to a safe house in Novi, Michigan, and Ypsilanti through a Kelly Service handler named Paul Whelan, a man convicted of espionage in Russia.
7. A Ukrainian Hacker named Nataliia Sova was also involved in the Washington, DC area providing safe houses for Eastern European hackers in 2012, and she was married to a member of the Awan Spy Ring on Capitol Hill for the 2016 DNC "Hack".
8. Also, Peter Strzok's favorite Russian spy handler, Patrick Byrne, arranged meetings between Russian femme fatale Maria Butina and Stanley Fisher, a high-level official at the hacked agency. FBI LURES can use extracting thumb drives to steal passwords from top exec laptops.
9. Would it not make sense to see which known GRU agents have hacked before, and to study their DNC connections. Physical access is usually the most difficult part of hacking. Butina "met" with John Rockefeller IV and Hank Greenberg also in DC, both known to maintain DC spy nets
10. And Butina transferred over 12 Terabytes to Moscow for a Treasury transactions to her Russian Central Bank Exec Alex Torshin. Sound like a hack to you? And Patrick Byrne, her handler, specializes in encrypted, blockchain financial transactions.
11. Is Strzok moping up his 2016 hacks now with a covering hack in 2020. Same Cozy Bears. Same IP addresses. Same DNC operatives. Same safe houses. Same handlers. You Decide. Just a continuation of a four-year Russian Hoax?

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A thread.


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This strategy failed. It is impossible to 'cocoon' the vulnerable, as Covid is passed from younger people to older, more vulnerable people.

We can see this playing out through heatmaps. e.g. these heatmaps from the second


The Government then decided to change its strategy to 'preventing a second wave that overwhelms the NHS'. This was announced on 8 June in Parliament.

This is not the same as 'preventing a second wave'.

https://t.co/DPWiJbCKRm


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Legacy site *downloads* ~630 KB CSS per theme and writing direction.

6,769 rules
9,252 selectors
16.7k declarations
3,370 unique declarations
44 media queries
36 unique colors
50 unique background colors
46 unique font sizes
39 unique z-indices

https://t.co/qyl4Bt1i5x


PWA *incrementally generates* ~30 KB CSS that handles all themes and writing directions.

735 rules
740 selectors
757 declarations
730 unique declarations
0 media queries
11 unique colors
32 unique background colors
15 unique font sizes
7 unique z-indices

https://t.co/w7oNG5KUkJ


The legacy site's CSS is what happens when hundreds of people directly write CSS over many years. Specificity wars, redundancy, a house of cards that can't be fixed. The result is extremely inefficient and error-prone styling that punishes users and developers.

The PWA's CSS is generated on-demand by a JS framework that manages styles and outputs "atomic CSS". The framework can enforce strict constraints and perform optimisations, which is why the CSS is so much smaller and safer. Style conflicts and unbounded CSS growth are avoided.