Hello John and Doves,
Back in 2023, the US Department of
Defense banned defense employees from using the Chinese
TikTok on government computers/phones/etc. Sighting
security concerns. Anything coming out of China is CCP
controlled. The CCP would love to get inside the
Dod! So this certainly makes sense to ban this app.
Then, surprisingly, this year, US
Department of Defense found defense employees connecting
their work computers to Chinese servers to access the new
Chinese AI chatbot DeepSeek.
I find this shocking. I've
worked for companies that were concerned about sabotage from
'outside' the company and banned employees from downloading
anything on to work computers. Everything on every
company computer had to be approved.
Any employee that downloaded
'something', whether knowingly or not, was fired. No
questions asked. And we were constantly warned about
opening links on emails. This was a no-no unless the
link was generated from internal email. My employers
had the absolute right to do this and put security
first. Every employee knew the risks.
The Defense Department's IT
security moved to block access to DeepSeek's website on
Tuesday. Data collected by DeepSeek is stored on
servers in China. And this data is governed under
Chinese law.
I don't know if these defense
employees unknowingly did this, but after the FBI Director
Wray warned Congress and Americans through out the totality
of 2024 about Chinese 'getting into everything' - 'the CCP
is in our critical infrastructure just waiting for the war
to start' - they should have known better. They are
DoD employees!!
How much damage was done has not
been announced. This news just came out. But one
article said the DoD had to remove 'code' associated with
the DeepSeek downloads. Not good.
Naive, stupid or in
collusion with China - this needs to be thoroughly
investigated. No DoD employee needs to be doing
'research' on a Chinese AI platform with Chinese servers
or using their chat. That should have been a
no-brainer. Chat on your own private computer/phone
outside of work!
Hopefully, the new
Defense Secretary Hegseth will get on this and assess the
damage and see what has been
stolen/compromised/malwared/infiltrated, etc. And
put out a ban on all apps, links, etc without prior
approval. He needs to find out, why,
despite restrictions, thousands of defence employees
broke the rules!
The United States
is at war with China. And I'm sure there are
traitors in the DoD that has sold us out to China.
DoD Banned TikTok:
Back in June of 2023, "The Defense
Department was among three federal agencies Friday to
formally issue an interim rule that bans the
"presence or use" of the Chinese-owned social networking
app TikTok on devices that connect with government
systems, including those owned by outside
contractors."
"For years now, the Pentagon has
unequivocally urged personnel against
downloading and accessing TikTok on government and personal
devices. Federal leaders have repeatedly raised
concerns of cybersecurity and spying threats, and Congress
has also warned that user data captured via the social media
app could ....ultimately be used in ways that threaten
national security."
President Biden signed a bill, the
"No TikTok on Government Devices Act" in 2022 that
prohibited the use of TikTok by the federal government's
nearly 4 million employees on devices owned by its
agencies...."
I'm surprised it
took a ban to get employees to pay attention to national
security issues. The companies I worked for would
have fired them.
New Chinese AI Chatbot, DeepSeek, Has Become a Big
Concern:
"US Defense Department
employees connected their work computers to Chinese
servers to access DeepSeek's new AI chatbot for at least
two days before the Pentagon moved to shut off access,
according to a defense official familiar with the matter."
"The Pentagon's IT experts are still determining
the extent to which employees directly used DeepSeek's
system through a web browser, the official said."
Why Wasn't This
Flagged?:
Why aren't Department of Defense
employees, of ALL the federal employees, more aware of
national security threats from China? Too much
DEI? Especially since former FBI Director Wray was in
the news every other week last year telling us that the
Chinese were getting into everything in the U.S. - a big RED
FLAG for the DoD and a concern for the FBI. Employees
at the DoD are on the front lines of national
security. THEY, of all federal employees, should be
the most cautious, the most aware of threats from China.
The Defense Department is trying
to find out how much damage was done. How deep did
this go?
DeepSeek App:
The DeepSeek app was introduced
"in the U.S. on Monday" - 'it quickly became the most
downloaded free app in the country on Apple's app
store.' This is yet another Chinese app. Like
TikTok, but it's AI. DeepSeek is yet another way for
China to steal data and invade privacy. DeepSeek is now more
popular than ChatGPT.
DeepSeek's privacy policy notes
"personal information it collects from users is held "on
secure servers located in the People's Republic of
China."
"One issue that DeepSeek users
face outside of China: censorship. For example,
a CBS News analysis of the application found that DeepSeek
did not return any results for a prompt seeking information
about the 1989 Tiananmen Square protects and subsequent
massacre in Beijing." It is cleared "being curated to
push Chinese narratives and censorship."
DeepSeek
raises national security concerns, U.S. officials say
And China just "unveiled its
latest open-source AI model, R1, which its creators claim
has outperformed leading products from US
developers"... And China is allowing anyone to
download and run it on their own servers for free.
"In 2022, a team of
AI engineers in southern China working for the parent
company of DeepSeek proudly unveiled a new AI
supercomputer and said they were making it available free
of charge to researchers across the nation." The US
company Nvidia sold the Chinese 10,000 A100 advanced
graphics processing units (GPUs). Nvidia is the
world's leading maker of AI chips. In late 2022, the
U.S. banned the sell of Nvidia's chips to China.
When China's DeepSeek chatbot was released it erased "$1
Trillion from the stock market. Because the Chinese
claimed their model cost $5.6 million in computing costs
and used Nvidia's less advanced H800 chips. (China
may have bought the advanced chips from Nvidia through
third parties.) AI experts are questioning the
Chinese cost of $5.6 million.
"The research firm
SemiAnalysis estimated Friday that DeepSeek has spent more
than half a billion dollars on GPUs with total capital
expenditures of almost $1.3 billion. Experts said
that the performance of the DeepSeek is "comparable to
leading competitors." "...China just has some
outstanding AI researchers, and a lot of them seems to be
clustered in DeepSeek right now.." And the Chinese
government "is now trying to claim and harness" this AI
company.
DeepSeek, in the
summer of 2022, "announced it was taking requests
from universities and research institutes to use the
powerful machine for free." "For
researchers, the desire for computing power is endless."
"Much of
DeepSeek's research has been done in conjunction with
seasoned researchers at leading universities.
One of Deepseek's first research papers, for example, was
on a 3D generator developed in conjunction with China's
elite Tsinghua University." They have been using
DeepSeek to train their AI models - this results in
creating supercomputers faster, more efficiently.
China’s
new AI star DeepSeek grew on more than a shoestring
budget
Pentagon Blocks
DeepSeek:
"The Defense Information Systems
Agency which manages the Pentagon's IT networks, moved to
block access to the DeepSeek website late on Tuesday due
to multiple defense employees having used the latest AI
chatbot for at least two days...DISA
experts are now assessing the extent of employee's direct
use of DeepSeek through web browsers." The
user data of those who access this app via the Chinese
website or the app on the Apple App Store and Google Play is
"stored on serves in China and governed by Chinese law."
Thousands of Pentagon
employees who, "despite the restrictions...
continue to use the Chinese-trained AI (DeepSeek) through
the authorized web platform Ask Sage, which provides access
to multiple models, including DeepSeek, hosted on its own
US-based servers."
"Some US military personnel
downloaded an earlier version of DeepSeek onto their
workstations as early as the fall of 2024...At the time, the
connection to China was allegedly 'not evident' to Defense
Department security teams, and the downloads did not raise
immediate concerns."
"The growing interest in DeepSeek has
prompted the US military to locate and remove code
from China-origin chatbots on employee's machines."
What information does DeepSeek now
have from our Department of Defense? Are they still
'in' the department's computers/phones?
TikTok - And What It
"Collects":
I suppose that many American are
not aware of the information TikTok is gathering on them -
their browsing history, their facial ID, their voice print,
texts and location, their IP address, and what they are
clicking on, typing, searching for. And "TikTok
gathers data on people who don't even use the app
itself. And TikTok uses trackers called
"pixels'. TikTok knows which websites you visit, what
you search. And pixels on other websites notify TikTok of
your 'visit'. We know Facebook, Meta, Google do this -
but why should the Chinese 'want' your personal
information??
"The national Girl Scouts website
has a TikTok pixel on every page, which will transmit
details about children if they use the site- TikTok gets
this information. TikTok gets medical information from
WebMD, where a pixel reported that we'd search for "erectile
dysfunction. And RiteAid told TikTok when we added
Plan B emergency contraceptives to our cart. Recovery
Centers of America, which operates addiction treatment
facilities, notified TikTok when a visitor views its
locations or reads about insurance coverage. And
the pixels on RAINN website, a leading anti-sexual violence
organization, sent TikTok information. Also,
personal information about 'student finances' from the
College Board gets sent to TikTok. And personal loan
and debt-consolidation loan info gets sent to TikTok.
MayoClinic was "sharing data about medical conditions" with
the TikTok pixels on its site.
"Most people have no idea that
TikTok and other companies gather information about them in
this way." "The only reason it works is
because it's a secret operation. Some
people might not care, but people should have a choice. It
shouldn't be happening in the shadows."
What You Can Do:
To help protect
against the stealing of your personal information -
privacy experts recommend Disconnect and uBlock Origin.
TikTok was recently faced with
shutting down in the U.S. I imagine that the CCP had
to hurry up on it's replacement: DeepSeek is very new
to Americans and security analysts. What exactly can
this app do? Certainly any app that's Chinese owned
should NOT be allowed on government computers/phones.
The Navy has banned any use of
DeepSeek. And the Air Force requires 'proper approvals'
before connecting to any AI systems. I see DeepSeek as
a major problem because of its connection to the CCP.
If TikTok is collecting all of that info, what is DeepSeek
capable of??
So DeepSeek has offered, so
kindly, their AI computer to universities and research
institutes for free. Of course they have! To
steal as much as they can.
As research facilities latch on to
DeepSeek for their research - that research will end up in
the hands of the CCP. As some Pentagon employees have
latched on to DeepSeek, how much defense information ended
up in the hands of the CCP?
This Chinese AI should be banned
from the country. This AI is NOT free.
China is not our friend.
Everything they offer for free has an ulterior motive -
strings attached. Finding 'code' from China-origin
chatbots on DoD employee's computers is more than
concerning. I can see the Biden-Obama holdovers in the
DoD wrecking havoc on our national security..especially with
their connections to China. There is a whole lot of
spite and hate against President Trump and MAGA. The
evil minions of satan are on the move.
We are at war with China.
Time to wake up. Too many gullible and naïve people in
our government - supernaturally blinded??
Pray for the peace of Jerusalem!
Maranatha!
Chance