Playing Russian Roulette with Cyber Security

One would think that the Russian security software vendors would have "it" all together regarding how best to manage their own product offerings. After all, they are supposed to be pretty smart as technogeeks--if not also in other areas--right? At least that is what I thought until recently.

For the last several years I sought to protect my Compaq/HP and Dell PC's (using 32-bit Windows XP Pro) by experimenting with all the major players, as well as several minor ones, in the security software field from around the globe. I finally settled on a little-known Russian vendor's product out of St. Petersburg as the best all-around solution for me, but this did not come easily.

I first had to wrangle with their tech support staff to find out why it would not install on my machine(s). This process involved back-and-forth email exchanges using diagnostics, memory dumps, screenshots, uninstallers, and virus removal tools. Each time I submitted more data for them to mull over, they suggested other options to try. It became obvious that they were just as much in the dark as I, and were stumbling around blindly to come up with a workable solution.

After several weeks of this, I eventually received a revelatory insight that I believe came by direct inspiration from the Lord (something with which I have been frequently blessed in my Spirit-led Christian walk spanning over five decades). After applying the Holy Spirit's "hotfix" solution, my software installation proceeded flawlessly. I didn't bother to inform the Russian IT support staff of this, since by then they had become largely irrelevant. I am still using this vendor's product on my Virtual (Windows XP) PC contained within the 64-bit Windows 7 Pro on my new Dell.

Something similar to this again happened to me just recently, as I sought to install the latest offering from another well-known Russian security firm based out of Moscow. Again I hit an installation snag (this time with 64-bit Windows 7 Pro), and again their tech support staff offered me nothing but asinine "solutions" that didn't work, after I followed their instructions to the letter and fed them with every report they asked for. In the process I also uninstalled several good supplemental security programs I have come to rely upon over the years--all for nothing!

This time, however, I ran out of my own man-hours and patience in trying to help them debug their own software--should I really be doing that for free anyway?--and went with another nation's vendor with a proven track record of reliability and user friendliness. I am left with the impression that, if I have to come up with my own solutions for using someone else's software, I may as well be paid for it as some sort of field consultant. I certainly don't need to be paying them for it!

As for the Russians' famed "intelligence"? They don't appear to be so smart after all.

The Chemtrail Conspiracy Conundrum: Causation by Correlation, or Just Occam's Razor?

I am posting a link to an ADEQ (Arizona Department of Environmental Quality) publication at the end of this blog post, because it got buried amidst all of the globalist tinfoil conspiracy crap on the Mohave County Arizona Chemtrail Group (a Facebook group from which I was just recently booted). This group ostensibly started out as a local citizens' initiative--hence its name, one would suppose--but it quickly devolved into a worldwide "free-for-all-for-anyone-who-was-remotely-interested" group, which have legions of copycat clones on Facebook, with thousands of members, which also have been in existence for much longer periods of time--and therefore having more opportunities to get things right. It begs the question, "Why reinvent the wheel?"

Purportedly created to deal with observed instances of increased levels of trace metallic elements and chemical compounds in the blood and hair samples of local residents, it became obfuscated with detailed analyses of airplane spray nozzle technology and declassified worldwide government cover-ups, etc., which are far sexier topics but have little or no bearing on the ADEQ's mandated mission of monitoring Arizona's geophysical environment. Add to this the inclusion of every Tom, Dick, and Harry around the globe who have feigned an interest in these subjects, and you have a cacophonous mix of strident voices, each vying for a preeminent position on the same soapbox.

Local and worldwide proponents of the chemtrail/geoengineering conspiracy movement (as well as those in other movements), in a dogged pursuit of "proof" for their elaborate theories, often overlook the basic principle of logic found in "Occam's Razor" to arrive at more plausible explanations for those observed phenomena. For those who may have the propensity to seek complex theoretical constructs and explanations to explain observed events and phenomena, the principle of "Occam's Razor" basically states that the simplest explanation is usually the most plausible one, if only because it carries with it the least amount of suppositions to prove.

https://web.cn.edu/kwheeler/logic_occam.html

I came across a published document while doing some online research in preparation for a recent public meeting held at the Mohave County Administration Building on these subjects. I posted it on the aforementioned group a few days ago and received only one response, largely due (I believe) to the sheer volume of material being posted there hourly on a veritable cornucopia of topics--some good, some bad, and some just plain stupid. One could not see the forest for the trees, as it took me about an hour to find it again before posting it here.

Our own State Senator Kelli Ward did an admirable job of providing an open forum for her constituents in Legislative District 5 who expressed concerns about these things--at a great personal cost to her own political standing statewide, I might add--but realistically her office only provides her with a limited purview to deal with such issues as an AZ legislator. An ADEQ bureaucratic spokeswoman (a non-scientist!) at the same meeting also kept speaking of her agency's limited funding and jurisdiction in these matters. The following document, however, prepared and published by the ADEQ in June of 2001, provides a solid baseline for further tests to be done in our area--hopefully to include air, soil, and rainwater sampling--but at the very least establishes them as a stakeholder in any future proceedings.

The logical fallacy of "Causation by Correlation"

If those who claim injury from chemtrails want to prove a global conspiracy, they are "chasing windmills" (and I wish them luck); however, their immediate medical issues will not be addressed by anyone who can be made accountable for them in their lifetimes. I actually tried to help them, by showing them an easier, more direct, and less time-consuming way to do that with an agency which already has skin in the game, and for that I was shunned and vilified. I offered what many would consider to be a more promising path of investigation for these individuals to follow, in order to nail down the most likely causative factors for their medical conditions; yet, these same individuals have continued to "tilt at windmills" in their zealous quest to get at the "truth." It makes me question the sincerity of their intentions to really get the help they say they need and want for themselves, as opposed to just grandstanding and making noise for an all too receptive alternative media audience.

https://azdeq.gov/environ/water/assessment/download/ofr-01-04.pdf