"What if the Internet was Gone?" (FTTxJT Fri 102326 hr1)

seven individuals were arrested or surrendered for allegedly participating in a large-scale RICO drug trafficking and money laundering conspiracy.

One of those individuals is the president pro tempore of the Virginia State Senate, Lily Louise

Lucas.

And oh, what fun it is to ride in a one-horse open sleigh.

Just when you thought the rest of the country had decided Virginia has had enough attention for itself this morning, we light ourselves on fire again and let everyone see it.

Yes, the highest-ranking Democrat in Virginia, with apologies to Abigail Spanberger, the most powerful Democrat In Virginia, Louise Lucas turned herself in to the FBI yesterday morning.

Of course, we told you the story months ago of their raiding the office of her dispensary.

And Eddie's incurrence with this are profound.

borderline unending so we're gonna break a lot of this down but there's more of it because even in the world where we'd love to bask in the ignominy of Louise Lucas and her arrest for drug trafficking money laundering and racketeering comes the story that the internet is dying somebody has given the internet a virus And those people either, you know, and it's fun because either, depending on who you ask, AI caused it or AI identified it.

And you've, you've run into those, those situations where somebody, you know, lights a fire.

We've seen this in firefighting circles where you get a fire bug in the fire department and they're lighting fires so they can go out and put them out.

Could that be what AI did? Uh, the internet is teetering as Europe closed most of its internet.

70% of the world's websites impacted after a security hack was discovered in the programming language called PHP.

One security expert told me that they discovered that the password to get into the main server was the number four that is being investigated for us.

But it did not take AI long to find out how to get in to the programming language that has been used underneath most websites since the early 90s and is now mostly what you'll find behind the security certificates in most websites.

70% of the world's websites in Europe were shut down as the governments struggled to come up with fixes.

There was a patch released on Wednesday, which some at the National Security Agency said seemed to be slowing down the exploit, which ostensibly creates a copy of the website once it's inside of it and then puts that on the Internet So that when you go to, say, Amazon, you think you're at Amazon, but you're at a spoof site that just looks exactly like Amazon.

Security experts say that in several cases, the instances of people having their own personal information stolen has been reported as well.

Security experts say that if you have saved passwords and they don't show up on a website, that's an indication that your computer doesn't recognize the language behind the website and it's a red flag that you should leave immediately.

Supreme Court cleared the way Thursday for New Hampshire to ban the use of student IDs for voting during the midterm elections.

Justices granted a Republican-backed emergency appeal and blocked the use of student IDs as a backup method of identification.

Russia continues to bombard Kyiv as the war between Ukraine and Russia continues, even as negotiators are talking about a tripartite negotiation between Russia, Ukraine and the United States now.

And more severe weather striking the Four Corners region Thursday, flooding, swamping low-lying areas of Colorado this morning.