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Canadian Spying Case Proves Floppy Drive Isn't Dead Yet
An anonymous reader writes "The details of a Canadian spying case are coming to light, including the method of copying the sensitive data from the 'secured' computer linking five countries and the Russian handlers: Copy Data into Notepad; Save File to Floppy Drive; USB Key; ???; Profit! For $3000/mo in prepaid credit cards and wire transfers."
But frankly, the fact that they aren't blowing billions of dollars on having bases in the Middle East, supporting an "ally" that stabs them in the back every chance they get while still doing things that stir up trouible - like stealing other people's land, and the fact that I've never heard protestors in a Muslim country yell, "Death to Cananda!" or a Latin/South American say something bad about a Canadian.
If it weren't for us, the US, I bet their lives would be much more peaceful.
I'll take their problems anyday.
TO ALL EMPLOYEES:
Effective immediately, all documents must be at least 1.46 MB in size.
- The mgmt
P.S. Nobody even THINK about installing PKZIP, k?
Spying on Sarah Palin's house.
Canada and the US have several joint RADAR installations in the arctic.
In World War II, the influx of volunteer Canadian pilots kept the RAF from being attritted into nothingness during the Battle of Britain. On D-Day, the Canadians at Juno Beach faced stiffer resistance than any other beachhead except Omaha - by day's end they had penetrated deeper into France than any of the other four beachheads. Later, it was the Canadians who drove the German Fifteenth Army, at that time the last fully cohesive German unit in the region, off their superbly-fortified position overlooking (and denying naval access to) the port of Antwerp, which the Allies desperately needed for supplies and which the British had failed to open.
You can joke all you want, but you seriously don't want to fuck with the Canadian military (and no, I'm not Canadian).
Everything is better with chainsaws.
Is it just me or does the author not know what false flag means?
Well put, Antipater. Nice to see someone who studies real history, not just the US classroom version!
Although, you could have mentioned how we kicked Yankee arse in 1812.....
The internet has definitely changed the espionage game. If you think about it, the entire premise of Star Wars falls apart completely in an internet society. The movie starts out with Vader trying to recover the plans for the Death Star which are stored on R2D2, and then the entire middle of the movie involves trying to physically transport R2 to the Rebels to allow them to stage an attack. If the Empire had internet, then the rebel spies would have just uploaded the plans for the Death Star to the Rebel Alliance, and you'd skip straight to the final scene of the movie.
Dear Canadian Fan.
Have you ever heard of the Dieppe Raid?
Sincerely,
A Canadian
He had access to Stone Ghost: "It's a computer system that links the five eyes. The five eyes are the United States, Britain, Australia, New Zealand and Canada. All their information is shared on the Stone Ghost computer." (http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/nova-scotia/story/2012/10/10/ns-delisle-spy-hearing.html) So it's not just Canadian secrets.
This piece of shit sold out my country for a lousy $3000 a month?
Although, you could have mentioned how we kicked Yankee arse in 1812.....
Canada wasn't a country until 1867.
We'll liberate you yet, don't worry. Most of you have placed yourself in easy reach along the border already... :)
Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law
The AutoCAD file for the Death Star must have been humongous. Transmiting a file that large would have exceeded their data caps.
Any insufficiently advanced magic is indistinguishable from technology.
They could have modulated the death star ray to transmit data.
Perhaps they did and some idiot turned up the gain when transmitting a threat to Alderaan...
To do something right, you often have to roll up your sleeves and get busy.
I think the Polish and New Zealander's would like to discuss who "kept the RAF from being attritted into nothingness". And I'm pretty sure the British would not consider having around 1900 of their 2350 pilots left at the end of the Battle of Britain as being "attritted into nothingness".
I don't see how triumphant and selective reporting of war time events is any better coming from Canadians than it is from Americans.
And that could possibly be only because Broc died. He had supported Tecumseh in his bid for 'nationhood', but got himself killed in a battle. His superiors were not as grateful to the native leader as the guy who was fighting alongside them was. However, what would one generals belief do in London? It's unclear.
Until there are 50-cent, rewritable at will and without hassle, flat storage media, floppy disks still have some utility. Obviously the utility is declining because of their limited capacity, but I still use 'em. I throw adequate-res photos of clients' property into their insurance files. Way faster and easier than burning an optical disc.
USB flash drives are just as convenient, but they're still too pricey for some applications. If you could buy tens-of-megabyte thin, flat flash drives for tens of cents each, I'd buy a case of them.
We'll liberate you yet, don't worry. Most of you have placed yourself in easy reach along the border already... :)
Are you really so naive?? 95+% of our 35m people (err, shock troopers hardened in the north working as jumberjacks and hunting bears with knives to survive or skinning beaver tails) is within 100km of the border. When an order is given, these troops will sweep down to the Gulf, only pausing for a minute to burn the whitehouse twice.
Easy access goes both ways, eh? :) No wander US gov't is freaking out and spending billions on the northern border.
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I work with point clouds for scanning military vessels. That's what the data on the screen in Star Wars shows, point clouds.
Each compartment IRL is a couple of GB of data. The Death star, assuming 1000 compartments, would require several Terabytes of point cloud information in order for it to be useful to the Alliance. We have trouble moving individual compartments around our 1000 Network and it's just easier to move stuff around on portable hard drives.
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ECHELON is a government program to find words like bomb, jihad, plutonium, assassinate, and anarchy.
Gross negligence on behalf of the tech staff. Disabling ports and drives is basic level security stuff.