[ExI] pussy riot case

[T. Watts]

Computer security is a joke in many places it ought not be. Ira Winkler tells some hair-raising anecdotes; an employee of NSA named "Kirk" whose password was "captain", or how he talked his way into root access at a) a military base and b) a fortune 500 IT section, each in under 24 hours. I misunderstood your point, I thought you were saying physical measures were in place and were defeated, not that physical measures were not being observed.
Tom



> From: spike66 at att.net
> To: extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org
> Date: Thu, 23 Aug 2012 16:58:31 -0700
> Subject: Re: [ExI] pussy riot case
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> [mailto:extropy-chat-bounces at lists.extropy.org] On Behalf Of Kelly Anderson
> ...
> >
> >> ...  That being said, he didn't actually spill classified 
> > information, for if it is classified, it wouldn't have been on any 
> > network which had a USB port.  He spilled a ton of sensitive information
> for sure.
> 
> >... but the damage he could have done would have been far less without the
> assistance of Mr. Assange. I don't know about USB ports and all that, but
> every news story says the information or much of it was "classified".
> -Kelly
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> 
> Kelly OK cool, I realized why it is you and I were misunderstanding each
> other.
> 
> The people who are in big trouble here are the ones who wrote classified
> info on a computer system which isn't qualified for that level of
> classification.  Any system which has a disk burner, a USB port in which one
> can put a flash drive, any kind of removable medium or memory, usually any
> computer case which is not locked or can be opened or compromised without
> setting off alarms or disabling everything, any computer which is physically
> located outside a facility specifically designed for containing classified
> info, any computer which meets any one of the above is an example of a
> computer on which no one is allowed to write classified info.
> 
> This is puzzling: I read the Wikipedia page, which says the material was a
> quarter of a million US diplomatic cables, 40% confidential, 6% secret.  So
> now I don't understand how all that secret stuff ended up where a 19 yr old
> PFC could get to it, 1500 secret documents, oy.  That represents a pile of
> security clearances which are now up in smoke.  From the security office's
> point of view, the info was already compromised by the time PFC Manning saw
> it.  Whoever wrote the info on a non-secure system (see above) would lose
> their clearance at the very least, which means they lose their job.  I don't
> know what they do in a case like this.  We need to stand by and see what the
> final verdict reads.
> 
> spike
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