By Catherine Austin Fitts
The recent Snowden revelations have reminded us yet again how deeply invasive the US software system is:
“The National Security Agency has implanted software in nearly 100,000 computers around the world that allows the United States to conduct surveillance on those machines and can also create a digital highway for launching cyber-attacks. While most of the software is inserted by gaining access to computer networks, the N.S.A. has increasingly made use of a secret technology that enables it to enter and alter data in computers even if they are not connected to the Internet, according to N.S.A. documents, computer experts and American officials.”
Laura Carlsen – “A Cyber Invasion- How the NSA Infiltrated Mexico’s Computers”
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Of course there have been rumors and allegations for many years that Microsoft’s rise to fame and riches was not based on the market response to excellent software, but by the willingness to add NSA keys into the software on every computer – whether belonging to citizens, governments, banks or businesses.
The Snowden revelations come at the very time that the number of people in the emerging markets that are accessing information and products and services through smart phones and tablets are growing, surpassing the size of the market in the USA. The Apple app store did $1 billion of sales in December alone. Reports indicate that more of their app sales are coming from the emerging markets than from the US. The importance of their finally making a deal with China Mobile is apparent when you understand the direction of the customer profile.
Now American telecom, software, cloud, social media, and search companies have a marketing problem. They are considered fronts for covert compromise of privacy. They come with a giant sucking sound into the economic warfare and insider trading machines of the New World Order complex. The finger pointing between Washington and Wall Street as to who is to blame and the discussion on how to fix the appearance of the problem but leave the machinery intact is ongoing.
How to persuade hundreds of millions of consumers in Asia and around the world to trust us?
And viola! We have a brilliant, charming, appealing engineer of Indian descent promoted to the helm of Microsoft who appears to really care about doing a great job. And a new Chairman of African-American descent who just happens to have a distinguished career in security software and is considered a good friend of the President Obama.
Who is John Thompson: Microsoft’s New Chairman?
Who says the market did not speak? Looks to me like the Microsoft shareholders heard the customer loud and clear, not to mention the importance of close communication with Washington on highly sophisticated issues.
Gates is no longer chairman. He is now a technical advisor; except he is still the richest man in the world. Or is he? Given how the money was made was he just told to put it all in the Gates Foundation? Maybe he is just the worlds richest “cut-out.”
Whatever the truth, an enormous portion of the profits made on building the surveillance society have been safely moved beyond the citizens and consumers who might demand back what was stolen and beyond the tax system that might collect a portion to pay for the social safety net that eases the pain.
Indeed, the profits are dedicated to the Gates Foundation doing “good works.”
It’s all so refreshing.
Related Reading:
The Databeast, by Catherine Austin Fitts
