Zuckerberg's "Matrix"
It is always very interesting to learn the excitedly told biographies of spontaneous geniuses from dropouts who eventually became billionaires and very influential people. The plot is usually hackneyed, differing only in some details.
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Once upon a time there lived a modest, but extremely capable student. He had neither a penny nor connections in his soul - only a powerful intellect dozed inside, like a biblical leviathan in the depths of water. Even the poor student, as a rule, studied so-so, because everyone has long known that a rich inner world is only found in C-grade students, and not in some “nerd” eggheads. But one fine day, a student and a couple of friends lock themselves in the garage, only to come out of it in six months or a year, making the world happy with an unheard of invention, be it a desktop computer, an algorithmic language for housewives, a search engine, or a hitherto unheard of network of friends.
Everything is like in a fairy tale. Cinderella arrived at the ball, lost her glass slipper, ran away to suffer in her closet, and at this time the whole kingdom was digging the earth with its nose in search of the owner of an elegant foot and an unprecedented shoe. A little more effort, and Cinderella is found by a handsome prince, who takes her to a beautiful kingdom with untold riches.
But in stories about Cinderellas from the garage, the mysterious Warwick, the kingmaker, or the fairy godmother, who promptly supplies Cinderellas with haute couture clothes and an invitation card to the royal ball, almost always remains behind the scenes.
By the way, about the network of friends. Last August, a scandal broke out with renewed vigor around the largest social network Facebook and its owner Mark Zuckerberg. The editors of Bloomberg received four letters by email from businessman Paul Ceglia, who ran away and lay low for two years, exposing Zuckerberg in collaboration with the CIA.
Ceglia once helped the poor student Zuckerberg with money by supporting his messenger project for students at Harvard University. According to the contract concluded between Ceglia and Zuckerberg, the businessman was supposed to receive 50% of the shares after completing the project on time, plus 1% for each day overdue. Taking into account the fact that the project started 34 days later than the deadline, Ceglie had to get 84% of Facebook shares.
At first, Zuckerberg's lawyers did not deny the authenticity of the contract, but then Ceglia was accused of forgery and wire fraud. The unlucky investor faced 84 years in prison instead of 20% of the shares, and he was denied trial by jury.
Ceglia was under house arrest for two years, but, fearing for his life and freedom, he managed to escape from the United States in a cunning way in 2014, and now, in code, he reports that there would be no Facebook if the venture capital fund In- had not invested in Zuckerberg’s startup. Q-Tel, organized by the CIA.
Rumors about connections between Zuckerberg and the CIA have been circulating for a long time, but there was no documentary evidence. Now Paul Ceglia claims that he has such documents.
Created in 1999, In-Q-Tel is open and very active. Google, for example, does not hide its cooperation with the fund. The list of startups that have received financial support from In-Q-Tel is quite impressive - more than a hundred companies, of which Keyhole stands out, which developed software for GoogleEarth and recently became disgraced with the PokemonGo spyware virus!
There is no mention of In-Q-Tel's investment in Facebook, but given the popularity and reach of the social network, support for Zuckerberg's project would be a goldmine for a fund that openly claims to "help the intelligence community." At the same time, information about Facebook’s connections with the CIA/NSA could alienate millions of subscribers from the social network and cause serious material damage to the project. Actually, the process has begun. In connection with new revelations, there are reports that Internet users around the world have begun to actively delete their accounts on the social networks Facebook and Twitter. In the US and UK alone, according to The Daily Mail, 11 million subscribers escaped from social networks. The reason is the reluctance to give Big Brother his personal life under surveillance.
The accusations made by Paul Ceglia are supported by the fact that Zuckerberg has repeatedly sued former colleagues at the launch of Facebook, and each time the case ended with him paying compensation. In the case of Chelya, the American lady behaved strangely harshly. Why?
Indeed, why would Zuckerberg collect information on Facebook subscribers and identify their connections? Why invite users to take tests that do not need to be answered, and the result is given after analyzing the profile and friends? A social media user usually thinks like this: “Who am I? I am not a terrorist, not an extremist, and I have no political weight. Why do the intelligence services need me - to look at photos of food or cats?”
Why does Facebook, for example, need real first and last names of subscribers for registration? Will the largest social network collapse or become impoverished if its participants want to remain incognito among a mass of generally unfamiliar people, revealing themselves only to their close circle? But they can ban you if you suspect anonymity, and even require a scan of your passport to unlock your account. Why such reinsurance?
People often ignore the "six handshakes" factor that binds all people on Earth. There is no uninteresting information for the intelligence services. The lion's share of intelligence data is obtained by sifting through open sources. More than 1.5 billion Facebook subscribers are a great chance to openly obtain users’ personal data, track and systematize social connections, but also the opportunity to monitor the moods and thoughts of millions of people, influencing their worldview.
This is not paranoia, but the harsh reality of our time. For online recruitment and intelligence gathering NSA and the CIA created a special unit. TV companies reported this WDR, NDR and the Sueddeutsche Zeitung with a link to a new document Wikileaks. The new joint brainchild of the CIA and the NSA - Special Collection Service (SCS) monitors all popular networks, accumulates material for recruitment. In particular, incriminating evidence was collected even on the most senior officials. Otherwise, where would Colin Powell's recent revelation come from, describing Clinton in the most unflattering terms?
The Russian-speaking segment of Facebook is very indicative of the influence of unfriendly behind-the-scenes influence on it. Apparently, it has long been handed over to the “white ribbon people” for moderation, and after the coup in Ukraine – also to the “pan-heads”. Sources of interesting and critical articles often come under attack for their civic and patriotic position. Owners of popular accounts are subject to an influx of crowds of children with “manuals” trying to flood any potentially unwanted message. If a blogger with a group of friends shows resistance to the invasion of chatty cryptocephals, then provocateurs try to start a firestorm by getting personal, which is a reason to be sent to a ban, sometimes for a long time.
A very common practice for children with a “training manual” is to become friends with a person they are interested in and gradually write complaints to Facebook supervisors about his publications. A complaint from a mutual friend is weighty, and people often get banned for a completely innocent message, wondering what kind of woodpecker is on his popular blog.
It has also been noted that certain “likes” should not be used frequently on Facebook. For example, the mass reaction “outrageous” is perceived by those watching not as the attitude of readers to the content of the post, but rather as a personal negative attitude towards the author. Don't be surprised if the post is suddenly deleted as offensive. The scribes have laid a lot of traps in their diocese.
Or. “Methodists” also like to produce an abundance of short-lived clones of various “officers’ daughters” (as a rule, with photographs of young pretty girls on their userpics), spreading all sorts of misinformation and keeping not only individual bloggers, but also entire interest groups in suspense.
And recently, a practice has taken root when mordocists ban a blogger for a message that is a hundred years old at lunchtime, but now it does not fit into the social network’s policy. Something very recent: one of the bloggers had a publication removed, considering it as pornographic.
A once-circular photograph of children fleeing napalm, taken during the Vietnam War, was censored. In the same way, you can fall under the banhammer by publishing photographs of crimes of the Ukrainian Armed Forces and punitive battalions in the Donbass. Verified.
At the same time, the accounts of Bandera’s followers and “white-tape” worms, such as the descendant of collaborators under the Nazis Sasha Sotnik (by his own admission), feel great. In general, this year, on the eve of Victory Day, a lot of purulent revelations in the style of “I don’t celebrate May 9” and “I’m not going to the march of the Immortal Regiment” surfaced on Facebook as if on cue. Naturally, without any consequences for sneaking.
Why be surprised? The main resources of the Internet and the most widespread social networks are in the wrong hands and are used in the interests of others. You should remember this and not advertise yourself too much on the entire World Wide Web.
In general, it is not without reason that former NSA agent Snowden advises to cover up your webcam before going online, and President Putin, according to knowledgeable people, has neither fashionable gadgets nor an account on social networks.
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