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| Kent considers himself a ], citing his military experience and the death of his wife. He said that he lost many friends and his wife due to "our ruling class - Republicans and Democrats - consistently lied to the American people to keep us engaged in wars abroad".<ref>{{Cite web |last=La Corte |first=Rachel |date=October 12, 2022 |title=Washington House seat in play amid increased polarization |url=https://apnews.com/article/2022-midterm-elections-vancouver-washington-impeachments-jaime-herrera-beutler-7c2ce5bfed8b7d22f0bf7d7263108fe0 |access-date=October 18, 2022 |website=AP |language=en}}</ref> | Kent considers himself a ], citing his military experience and the death of his wife. He said that he lost many friends and his wife due to "our ruling class - Republicans and Democrats - consistently lied to the American people to keep us engaged in wars abroad".<ref>{{Cite web |last=La Corte |first=Rachel |date=October 12, 2022 |title=Washington House seat in play amid increased polarization |url=https://apnews.com/article/2022-midterm-elections-vancouver-washington-impeachments-jaime-herrera-beutler-7c2ce5bfed8b7d22f0bf7d7263108fe0 |access-date=October 18, 2022 |website=AP |language=en}}</ref> | ||
| === Affiliations with far-right groups === | |||
| Kent's 2022 campaign was endorsed early on by prominent ] commentator ]. Fuentes had partaken in a call with Kent discussing social media strategy; Kent later said that he had no further contact with Fuentes after the call and had not sought Fuentes's endorsement.<ref name=":2">{{Cite web |last=Brynelson |first=Troy |date=March 7, 2022 |title=Congressional candidate Joe Kent distances from white nationalist amid social media spat |url=https://www.opb.org/article/2022/03/07/congressional-candidate-joe-kent-3rd-district-washington-distances-from-white-nationalist/ |access-date=October 18, 2022 |website=opb |language=en}}</ref> | |||
| Graham Jorgensen, a member of the neo-fascist organization ], was employed as a consultant for Kent's 2022 campaign. ], founder of the far-right group ], has also been linked to Kent; Gibson heavily promoted Kent's campaign on social media and spoke at a fundraiser for Kent, in which Kent praised Gibson for "defend this community when our community was under assault from ]".<ref>{{Cite web |last=Slodysko |first=Brian |date=July 27, 2022 |title=GOP's links to extremism surface in congressional primary |url=https://apnews.com/article/2022-midterm-elections-donald-trump-campaigns-race-and-ethnicity-be616cae0967ca6ee9c78ac1efee8e31 |access-date=October 18, 2022 |website=AP |language=en}}</ref> | |||
| In September 2022, ] of ] unearthed an interview from June 2022 between Kent and Greyson Arnold, a neo-Nazi YouTube streamer. A spokesman for Kent's campaign said that Kent was unaware of who Arnold was and assumed he was a local journalist.<ref>{{Cite web |last1=Kaczynski |first1=Andrew |last2=Steck |first2=Em |date=September 30, 2022 |title=GOP congressional candidate Joe Kent's ties to white nationalists include interview with Nazi sympathizer {{!}} CNN Politics |url=https://www.cnn.com/2022/09/30/politics/kfile-joe-kent-ties-to-white-nationalists-nazi-sympathizer/index.html |access-date=October 18, 2022 |website=CNN |language=en}}</ref> | |||
| Kent served a legal notice in September 2023 to '']'', a newspaper in Centralia, Washington, that requested a retraction of the newspaper's reporting of a March 2022 town hall meeting. Kent stated that the reporting included defamatory statements regarding whether or not he agreed with viewpoints brought forth by members of the audience that promoted white nationalism.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Roland |first1=Mitchell |title=The Chronicle stands by coverage after attorney for Joe Kent threatens legal action over 2022 article |url=https://www.chronline.com/stories/attorney-for-joe-kent-threatens-legal-action-against-chronicle-for-2022-town-hall-coverage,324911 |access-date=September 19, 2023 |work=The Chronicle |date=September 5, 2023}}</ref> | |||
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Man-in-the-Middle Attacks (MITM)
Man-in-the-middle Attacks involve a malicious attacker trying to intercept, surveil and/or modify communications between two parties by spoofing one or both party's identities and injecting themselves in-between.
Types of MITM Attacks
- IP Address Spoofing, is where the attacker hijacks routing protocols to reroute the targets traffic to a vulnerable network node for traffic interception or injection.
- Message Spoofing (via Email, SMS or OTT Messaging), is where the attacker spoofs the identity or carrier service while the target is using messaging protocols like Email, SMS or OTT (IP-based) messaging apps. The attacker can then monitor conversations, launch social attacks or trigger zero-day-vulnerabilities to allow for further attacks.
- WiFi SSID Spoofing, is where the attacker simulates a WIFI base station SSID to capture and modify internet traffic and transactions. The attacker can also use local network addressing and reduced network defenses to penetrate the target's firewall by breaching known vulnerabilities. Sometimes known as a Pineapple attack thanks to a popular device. See also Malicious association.
- DNS Spoofing, is where attackers hijack domain name assignments to redirect traffic to systems under the attackers control, in order to surveil traffic or launch other attacks.
- SSL hijacking, typically coupled with another media-level MITM attack, the attacker spoofs the SSL authentication and encryption protocol by way of Certificate Authority injection in order to decrypt, surveil & modify traffic. See also TLS Interception
Political views
Kent has been characterized as a far-right politician. Kent has labeled his political philosophy as "inclusive populism", with a spokesman stating that it "rejects racism and bigotry" while promoting an "America First agenda".
Kent made false claims that the 2020 presidential election was stolen from Donald Trump a focus of his 2022 campaign. He labeled the perpetrators of the January 6 United States Capitol attack as "political prisoners" and spoke at a rally in defense of them organized by his top adviser. He supports impeaching Joe Biden and - in the wake of the FBI search of Mar-a-Lago - Merrick Garland.
In a September 2022 debate against Perez, Kent said that he was unvaccinated and that the COVID-19 vaccines are "experimental gene therapy".
Kent considers himself a non-interventionist, citing his military experience and the death of his wife. He said that he lost many friends and his wife due to "our ruling class - Republicans and Democrats - consistently lied to the American people to keep us engaged in wars abroad".
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- Watson, Evan (October 6, 2022). "A closer look at the Trump-endorsed Republican candidate for US House seat in southwest Washington". KGW. Retrieved November 16, 2022.
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Kent said the COVID-19 vaccine is "experimental gene therapy," that he opposes any vaccination requirements and wants to defund the FBI.
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- La Corte, Rachel (October 12, 2022). "Washington House seat in play amid increased polarization". AP. Retrieved October 18, 2022.