Because nothing helps the spread of knowledge and information like Big Brother watching every single thing that we do:|
I limit what I see and do on the internet based on the assumption that the Government is watching everything that we do already. ( And I'm so damned boring I don't even break any laws:| )
Once / if it becomes mandatory to log in with a Government approved ID card, I'll just cease using the internet at all.
My generation ( X ) is the last one who can remember a life without it. Considering the current state of the web as an advertising, surveillance and malware distribution platform, I can't say I would miss it much.
Apps merely went along for the ride when the smartphone market exploded.
They were new, everyone just HAD to have one and the apps followed in their footsteps.
Now that smartphones are ho-hum, so are the apps. I really don't care what the next generation of Android or IOS will be.
I'm likely going to switch back to a dumb phone next time around. It will make calls and do basic texting and that's it. When I even bother to turn it on, that is.
I am done with the $600 advertising and surveillance platform that masquarades as a phone.
is they're doing everything they can to keep their crazy ass neighbors, ( that's us ) who kill each other out of boredom, from noticing them.
You probably have one on your street. The crazy family you do everything you can NOT to interact with ?
Not that I can blame them. A species that can't even get along with themselves have no place in the rest of the universe. Better to let us die off from our own stupidity.
If I were to make an uneducated guess, I would be thinking along the lines of a live fire test of their next generation cruise missiles. ( Something like LRASM )
One of the requirements of the next gen systems is their ability to operate in a communications / GPS denied environment.
So best guess is, sometime within the month, a live fire launch from a platform in the Pacific should be expected. Especially if the target area is China Lake AND the FAA is involved.
Will very likely have a chase plane or two following it during the course of its flight.
Never discount the most worthless employee you have. There is tremendous power there.
We use them as deterrents when other folks around the company become a bit too demanding and don't understand we don't just drop everything we're doing every time they have a project they want done yesterday.
Since telling them " No " would simply cause them to go whine to one of the executives, we deploy one of our special snowflakes and assign them to their project. A project that should take a day or so, ends up taking a week or two.
It does not take long before they figure out that being a demanding asshole isn't in their best interests. They are usually FAR more understanding and even nice the next time they have a project that requires our help. We then reward them with a top tier type who blazes through their project in half the time they allocated for it.
My guess is because he knows he can trust Congress ( or our Government at all for that matter ) as much as the intelligence community to do the right thing ?
Does ANYONE have any faith in our Government to do the right thing ?
You see that is the problem.
Once the Government has been caught in enough lies, no one trusts them. For anything. They only have themselves to blame.
Assume you have dangerous information that shows the Government has been illegally doing X. Your disclosure of it would put a lot of folks in jail, embarass the Nation as a whole and would have worldwide inplications.
Do you bring it up to the very folks who have been committing or authorizing the crime who will do ANYTHING to keep it quiet ?
Or do you use some common sense and release it in a fashion that won't see you imprisoned or missing a few days later ?
I stand with Snowden on his methods because my trust in our Government is long gone.
Before we tackle what makes up a good password, we probably need a standard implemented across the board.
Things like:
Minimum and maximum characters. Standardized character sets. ( Aa4# ) Hashes, salts, and storage of credentials. Mandatory HTTPS for login sessions.
Then fine the sh*t out of companies who get breached and expose login credentials because they weren't following the standard.
It does no good to have a fully random twenty seven character password if the damn thing is wide open on the server side or they are still using MD5 to store it.
After we get there, we can probably talk about what makes a good password.
"If I may speak for a second on behalf of everyone in the rest of the world...
America, you have just shy of 325 million residents. I don't know how many of those are natural-born residents eligible to run for US President, but I assume the percentage is fairly high. Let's say at least 275 million people. How is it that from such a huge number that these are the best people you could come up with???
You guys really need to dig deeper for political talent. We in the outside world are getting worried about you if the current crop of clowns is the best you can find!"
Easy answer.
The absolute best people we have that -could- turn this country around, have no interest in that job. The more intelligent ones know that the President is nothing more than a corporate puppet anyway. ( Much like Congress is. )
In order to get elected, you have to promise the world knowing you can't deliver it without approval from the true idiots who are running this country into the ground for their own personal gain. In order to get elected, you need to be rich, and / or have well connected access to those that are rich because they pretty much control everything.
They control the parties and elected officials because of the funding they can bestow or withhold. They can get laws written or re-written to benefit whatever agenda they're currently pursuing. They control the corporations which, in turn, control the media. As such, they decide who we get to vote for very early on. ( Not much of a true Democracy when your choices are pre-selected for you now is it ? )
So, only the fools and those with delusions of grandeur ever bother applying for the job.
This is why Trump is such an anomaly. He has enough money backing him that he can run without being reliant upon corporate funding to make it happen. This scares the hell out of the establishment because they won't be able to control him. Will he make a good President ? I don't know. No one does. If he follows in the footsteps of his predecessors for the past forty years, the answer will be a resounding: NO. I do think if he goes down that path, we will reach a tipping point and folks will all but give up on the system as a whole. There is a limit to how much people can take and I'm of the opinion we are at the cliff's edge on that one.
As for why folks are dying off in record numbers:
Maybe we're tired.
Tired of the lies. Tired of the quality of life doing everything it can to race to the bottom. Tired of not really having a voice in how the country should be run. Tired of working your ass off your entire life with little to show for it in the end. Tired of hypocrisy. ( Laws for the elites vs laws for the rest of us ) Tired of wealth inequality. Tired of corporations having more rights than I. Tired of my rights meaning shit upon the utterance of any of the following: National Security, Terrorists, Think of the Children, Executive Privilege
I certainly won't miss this place when it's my time to go. Not at all. Some days I wish for it.
I'm sure someone will give the usual " Do something about it by voting " speech. To those I will point you to my above statement about corporations getting to pick and choose who you vote for. If that doesn't work, I'll leave you with this quote: "Choice is an illusion created between those with power and those without."
" A senior U.S. intelligence official told NBC News that they are "most worried about Trump, who has no experience with government computer systems or protocols."
As opposed to Hillary's extensive experience of maintaining a secure platform to conduct official business ?
Technically, she had the experience and knowledge to conduct State Deparment business, she just chose to ignore it.
Of the two, I would be more concerned about Hillary who KNEW better, but elected to follow her own rules vs the established ones. ( There is a very good reason we handle classified info the way we do. )
While completely off topic, when the hatred of all things " Trump " flare up and cause folks to act irrationally remember this:
It was not all that long ago when Tom Wheeler was chosen to head the FCC. When the announcement came, everyone lost their fucking minds.
They said:
" He's the worst possible person for the job ! " " He's a cable industry shill ! " " He'll destroy everything ! " " He's on the payroll of Big Media ! " " It's the end of everything as we know it ! " " I like turtles ! "
Fast forward a few years to today. Once the guy was given the chance to show the world how he did things, there was not enough crow to go around to balance out the hatred and stupidity that was preached early on. He impressed the hell out of everyone, including the most vocal of critics. Much to the disdain of the Telcos and Cable Industries.
The moral of this story is this: Give folks a chance to show you what they're capable of when it counts. Sometimes, they surprise us all.
If their actions or the end results don't live up to their claims, then by all means give them hell about it. At least give them the chance to prove us wrong.
Cars are for people whose commute distance makes taking the buss unrealistic.
Cars are for people whose job hours can vary from day to day which makes bus schedules frustrating.
Cars are for people who once had no other alternative than to take the bus and, after the experience, swore to never step on one ever again.
Cars are for people who don't wish to sit next to the masses in a confined space. Because they include any or all of the following:
The guy yelling into his cell phone. The guy who forgot what a bar of soap is. The guy who smokes like a chimney. The crazy guy talking to himself. The gal who used a gallon of perfume. The 500lb guy who sits right next to you. etc. etc. etc.
So, tbh, I don't care if the bus is autonomous or not. In fact, it could be FREE and I still wouldn't use it for the aforementioned reasons.
While the lawmakers made sure that the Government and various law enforcement agencies are exempt from the circumvention rules of the DMCA, I don't see where that would apply to the use of non-government or non-law enforcement talent. Being within the employ of the FBI itself, ( thus subject to US laws ) is one thing, resorting to non-US talent is quite another.
How can we hope to keep anything in check if our own government is going to utilize non-US talent to circumvent those pesky laws ?
one of the reasons the ISP's have no interest in the MPAA and their delusions of grandeur is that the ISP's have a better understanding of the concept of " Due Process ".
They also understand that anyone who is wrongfully accused and disconnected sans hard evidence is just a very pricy lawsuit landmine just itching to be stepped on.
I would let the MPAA / RIAA fund their own crusade and catch the inevitable blowback when it happens.
No, we actually we have much more disposable income than the college crowd, we just refuse to sit through Phone-Fest when the movie starts because smartphones are the digital equivilent of a security blanket for some people. Take it away for even a little while and they lose their fucking minds.
As such, we'll buy the giganto screen TV, and a house shaking sound system to match, then watch the show in the comfort of our home when it releases to Pay Per view, Netflix, Blu-Ray, whatever floats your boat.
My food, snacks, alcohol, rules and I can pause it if need be.
Greater amounts of disposable income seems to be the work around for clueless idiots and their smartphone obsessions.
"I think the companies should really just negotiate on a dollar figure for compensation, and let the union figure out how to manage health benefits and pensions. No long-term unknown costs and the union is motivated to seek the best solution for it's members because they will have a much more direct influence by voting on different plans than on union officers negotiating plans with the company."
The bad thing is, while the Union might like to pretend they care about their members, they truly only give a damn about one thing:
Payraises.
Why ? Because Union Dues are a percentage of your base pay. Thus, if your pay goes up, their pay goes up.
This is why they will fight tooth and nail for a payraise, but could give two shits about anything else. Sorry your health care premiums doubled, but we got what we wanted out of it. . . .
They'll put up the good fight for appearances, may even call a strike so they can " show the company we mean business ", but in the end they'll give in because they got the payraise.
The company just laughs as it applies all the funds it saved by not paying employees during the strike to fund the healthcare package for the next few years.
Certainly they exist, but can also be said of non-union employees as well. Besides, mgmt will be picking up the slack on the job while the strike continues:D
While folks may be quick to jump to conclusions, I would probably look at what's happened the past one or two contracts before going all judgemental on them.
If their contracts are anything like ours, they got a 1% raise each year for the last five years as well as watching their health care premiums triple over the life of the contract.
The sneaky thing my company is doing now is mixing the Unions together. Where part of the group is from Union X and another from Union Y. Makes for all sorts of good times when you find out they make more than you do while doing the exact same job.
I figure the company is doing this to negate Union negotiation leverage by nullifying the strike. If half of any given group is from another Union, then they are under a different contract. It is no coincidence that contracts for the different Unions are ofdset from one another to prevent too many folks from going out on Strike at once.
This way, if Union X goes on strike, Union Y is still there under contract doing the job. The company can weather a strike far more easily this way.
I've tried to point this out to Union officials, but it falls on deaf ears. So I gave up.
They'll figure it out after the company screws everyone over come next contract or two.
If they want to keep something off the news, then they can flag it as FOUO ( For Official Use Only ), Restricted or Confidential. Or, you know, they can fire and prosecute the persons responsible for failing to control themselves.
Once you tag something with any of the usual classification designations, a whole new set of rules goes into play. Breaking any of those rules for information which falls under any of those categories is a felony criminal offense. Period. Ignorance of the rules is not a valid excuse for breaking them. Though it seems that is really only true for us peons. Not the folks running the show:|
As you increase the classification levels, the rules governing the storage and handling of them tend to become more rigid as well. Once you start getting into the upper tiers ( TS, TS/SCI, TS/SAP, Codeword stuff, and beyond ) things start getting silly. Two person control rules, exclusion zones around the area when the material is out of storage, signing of NDA's threatening you with everything under the Sun if you ever disclose it, blahblahblah.
Stripping of the classification markings and sending it unsecured doesn't make it ok. If anything, that's willfully disseminating classified information while trying to bypass the rules regarding it. She ( and anyone who mishandles classified information ) should be fully prosecuted for her actions. Otherwise why bother with making the laws concerning them in the first place ?
Personally, they should time this to ensure any conviction of said crime isn't pardoned by His Majesty before he leaves office.
Ahhhh now see. I can relate a similar experience but with Comcast instead of AT&T.
My neighbors house was purchased by a new family who wasted no time cutting the cable in half with a shovel while planting new trees in their back yard. They give Comcast a ring and they roll a tech out to fix it for them.
To " fix " it, the tech removed my cable line from it's connection on the pedestal and hooked up the neighbors instead. Leaving my entire home quite dead. Internet, Alarm System, Television, etc. Didn't even bother to check to see if the connection was an active customer or not, just disconnected it.:|
Called up Comcast and told them what happened. Told them my service was out BECAUSE one of their technicians disconnected my line. They told me it would be TWO MONTHS before they could send a tech out to fix it:|
As the pedestal resides in my back yard, my solution was far more efficient. I moved the neighbors connection to their original post on the pedestal and reconnected my service back up. Then filed a Complaint on the tech for being incompetent. ( Not that it would do anything, but whatever )
Seriously though, TWO MONTHS to get a tech back out for an outage your tech caused in the first place ? WTF.
Moral of this story: It isn't just AT&T that sucks. They all do in one form or another.
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Because nothing helps the spread of knowledge and information like Big Brother watching every single thing that we do :|
I limit what I see and do on the internet based on the assumption that the Government is watching everything that we do already. :| )
( And I'm so damned boring I don't even break any laws
Once / if it becomes mandatory to log in with a Government approved ID card, I'll just cease using the internet at all.
My generation ( X ) is the last one who can remember a life without it. Considering the current state of the web as an advertising,
surveillance and malware distribution platform, I can't say I would miss it much.
Apps merely went along for the ride when the smartphone market exploded.
They were new, everyone just HAD to have one and the apps followed in their footsteps.
Now that smartphones are ho-hum, so are the apps. I really don't care what the next generation of Android or IOS will be.
I'm likely going to switch back to a dumb phone next time around. It will make calls and do basic texting and that's it. When I even bother to turn it on, that is.
I am done with the $600 advertising and surveillance platform that masquarades as a phone.
is they're doing everything they can to keep their crazy ass neighbors, ( that's us ) who kill each other out of boredom, from noticing them.
You probably have one on your street. The crazy family you do everything you can NOT to interact with ?
Not that I can blame them. A species that can't even get along with themselves have no place in the rest of the universe. Better to let us die off from our own stupidity.
If I were to make an uneducated guess, I would be thinking along the lines of a live fire test of their next generation cruise missiles. ( Something like LRASM )
One of the requirements of the next gen systems is their ability to operate in a communications / GPS denied environment.
So best guess is, sometime within the month, a live fire launch from a platform in the Pacific should be expected. Especially if the target area is China Lake AND the FAA is involved.
Will very likely have a chase plane or two following it during the course of its flight.
Just a guess though :)
is to discontinue subscribing to Netflix. ( Unlike Cable or Satellite, discontinuing / restarting service is dead simple. )
Enough folks follow this method and Netflix will set a world record in getting this issue resolved.
Never discount the most worthless employee you have. There is tremendous power there.
We use them as deterrents when other folks around the company become a bit too demanding and don't understand we don't just drop everything we're doing every time they have a project they want done yesterday.
Since telling them " No " would simply cause them to go whine to one of the executives, we deploy one of our special snowflakes and assign them to their project. A project that should take a day or so, ends up taking a week or two.
It does not take long before they figure out that being a demanding asshole isn't in their best interests. They are usually FAR more understanding and even nice the next time they have a project that requires our help. We then reward them with a top tier type who blazes through their project in half the time they allocated for it.
My guess is because he knows he can trust Congress ( or our Government at all for that matter ) as much as the intelligence community to do the right thing ?
Does ANYONE have any faith in our Government to do the right thing ?
You see that is the problem.
Once the Government has been caught in enough lies, no one trusts them. For anything. They only have themselves to blame.
Assume you have dangerous information that shows the Government has been illegally doing X. Your disclosure of it would put a lot of folks in jail, embarass the Nation as a whole and would have worldwide inplications.
Do you bring it up to the very folks who have been committing or authorizing the crime who will do ANYTHING to keep it quiet ?
Or do you use some common sense and release it in a fashion that won't see you imprisoned or missing a few days later ?
I stand with Snowden on his methods because my trust in our Government is long gone.
Before we tackle what makes up a good password, we probably need a standard implemented across the board.
Things like:
Minimum and maximum characters.
Standardized character sets. ( Aa4# )
Hashes, salts, and storage of credentials.
Mandatory HTTPS for login sessions.
Then fine the sh*t out of companies who get breached and expose login credentials because they weren't following the standard.
It does no good to have a fully random twenty seven character password if the damn thing is wide open on the server side or they are still using MD5 to store it.
After we get there, we can probably talk about what makes a good password.
"If I may speak for a second on behalf of everyone in the rest of the world...
America, you have just shy of 325 million residents. I don't know how many of those are natural-born residents eligible to run for US President, but I assume the percentage is fairly high. Let's say at least 275 million people. How is it that from such a huge number that these are the best people you could come up with???
You guys really need to dig deeper for political talent. We in the outside world are getting worried about you if the current crop of clowns is the best you can find!"
Easy answer.
The absolute best people we have that -could- turn this country around, have no interest in that job. The more intelligent ones know that the President is nothing more than a corporate puppet anyway. ( Much like Congress is. )
In order to get elected, you have to promise the world knowing you can't deliver it without approval from the true idiots who are running this country into the ground for their own personal gain. In order to get elected, you need to be rich, and / or have well connected access to those that are rich because they pretty much control everything.
They control the parties and elected officials because of the funding they can bestow or withhold. They can get laws written or re-written to benefit whatever agenda they're currently pursuing. They control the corporations which, in turn, control the media. As such, they decide who we get to vote for very early on.
( Not much of a true Democracy when your choices are pre-selected for you now is it ? )
So, only the fools and those with delusions of grandeur ever bother applying for the job.
This is why Trump is such an anomaly. He has enough money backing him that he can run without being reliant upon corporate funding to make it happen.
This scares the hell out of the establishment because they won't be able to control him. Will he make a good President ? I don't know. No one does. If he follows in the footsteps of his predecessors for the past forty years, the answer will be a resounding: NO. I do think if he goes down that path, we will reach a tipping point and folks will all but give up on the system as a whole. There is a limit to how much people can take and I'm of the opinion we are at the cliff's edge on that one.
As for why folks are dying off in record numbers:
Maybe we're tired.
Tired of the lies.
Tired of the quality of life doing everything it can to race to the bottom.
Tired of not really having a voice in how the country should be run.
Tired of working your ass off your entire life with little to show for it in the end.
Tired of hypocrisy. ( Laws for the elites vs laws for the rest of us )
Tired of wealth inequality.
Tired of corporations having more rights than I.
Tired of my rights meaning shit upon the utterance of any of the following: National Security, Terrorists, Think of the Children, Executive Privilege
I certainly won't miss this place when it's my time to go. Not at all. Some days I wish for it.
I'm sure someone will give the usual " Do something about it by voting " speech. To those I will point you to my above statement about corporations getting to pick and choose who you vote for. If that doesn't work, I'll leave you with this quote: "Choice is an illusion created between those with power and those without."
Considering how densely packed the security lines are at the moment, the efficient bomber will target those instead of the plane.
A lot more bang for your buck in bodycount and you don't even have to worry about getting past the screening process :|
" A senior U.S. intelligence official told NBC News that they are "most worried about Trump, who has no experience with government computer systems or protocols."
As opposed to Hillary's extensive experience of maintaining a secure platform to conduct official business ?
Technically, she had the experience and knowledge to conduct State Deparment business, she just chose to ignore it.
Of the two, I would be more concerned about Hillary who KNEW better, but elected to follow her own rules vs the established ones. ( There is a very good reason we handle classified info the way we do. )
While completely off topic, when the hatred of all things " Trump " flare up and cause folks to act irrationally remember this:
It was not all that long ago when Tom Wheeler was chosen to head the FCC. When the announcement came, everyone lost
their fucking minds.
They said:
" He's the worst possible person for the job ! "
" He's a cable industry shill ! "
" He'll destroy everything ! "
" He's on the payroll of Big Media ! "
" It's the end of everything as we know it ! "
" I like turtles ! "
Fast forward a few years to today. Once the guy was given the chance to show the world how he did things, there was not enough
crow to go around to balance out the hatred and stupidity that was preached early on. He impressed the hell out of everyone, including
the most vocal of critics. Much to the disdain of the Telcos and Cable Industries.
The moral of this story is this: Give folks a chance to show you what they're capable of when it counts. Sometimes, they surprise us all.
If their actions or the end results don't live up to their claims, then by all means give them hell about it. At least give them the chance to
prove us wrong.
Cars are for people whose commute distance makes taking the buss unrealistic.
Cars are for people whose job hours can vary from day to day which makes bus schedules frustrating.
Cars are for people who once had no other alternative than to take the bus and, after the experience, swore to never step on one ever again.
Cars are for people who don't wish to sit next to the masses in a confined space. Because they include any or all of the following:
The guy yelling into his cell phone.
The guy who forgot what a bar of soap is.
The guy who smokes like a chimney.
The crazy guy talking to himself.
The gal who used a gallon of perfume.
The 500lb guy who sits right next to you.
etc. etc. etc.
So, tbh, I don't care if the bus is autonomous or not. In fact, it could be FREE and I still wouldn't use it for the aforementioned reasons.
What has my curiosity at the moment is this:
While the lawmakers made sure that the Government and various law enforcement agencies are exempt from the circumvention rules of the DMCA, I don't see where that would apply to the use of non-government or non-law enforcement talent. Being within the employ of the FBI itself, ( thus subject to US laws ) is one thing, resorting to non-US talent is quite another.
How can we hope to keep anything in check if our own government is going to utilize non-US talent to circumvent those pesky laws ?
one of the reasons the ISP's have no interest in the MPAA and their delusions of grandeur is that the ISP's have a better understanding of the concept of " Due Process ".
They also understand that anyone who is wrongfully accused and disconnected sans hard evidence is just a very pricy lawsuit landmine just itching to be stepped on.
I would let the MPAA / RIAA fund their own crusade and catch the inevitable blowback when it happens.
Come on man, you can't see the pattern here ? :D
Your citizenship attribute is directly proportional to the amount of money or information you can wield at any given moment.
The wealthier or more "in-the-know" you are, the stronger your citizenship score.
This is why if I protest a thing, I am ignored. But if say. . . Goldman Sachs or Google protests a thing, folks take notice.
Especially those lawmakers who receive bribes. . . . er. . . campaign donations from said groups.
No, we actually we have much more disposable income than the college crowd, we just refuse to sit through Phone-Fest when the movie starts because smartphones are the digital equivilent of a security blanket for some people. Take it away for even a little while and they lose their fucking minds.
As such, we'll buy the giganto screen TV, and a house shaking sound system to match, then watch the show in the comfort of our home when it releases to Pay Per view, Netflix, Blu-Ray, whatever floats your boat.
My food, snacks, alcohol, rules and I can pause it if need be.
Greater amounts of disposable income seems to be the work around for clueless idiots and their smartphone obsessions.
"I think the companies should really just negotiate on a dollar figure for compensation, and let the union figure out how to manage health benefits and pensions. No long-term unknown costs and the union is motivated to seek the best solution for it's members because they will have a much more direct influence by voting on different plans than on union officers negotiating plans with the company."
The bad thing is, while the Union might like to pretend they care about their members, they truly only give a damn about one thing:
Payraises.
Why ? Because Union Dues are a percentage of your base pay. Thus, if your pay goes up, their pay goes up.
This is why they will fight tooth and nail for a payraise, but could give two shits about anything else. Sorry your health care premiums doubled, but we got what we wanted out of it. . . .
They'll put up the good fight for appearances, may even call a strike so they can " show the company we mean business ", but in the end they'll give in because they got the payraise.
The company just laughs as it applies all the funds it saved by not paying employees during the strike to fund the healthcare package for the next few years.
Not all of them.
Certainly they exist, but can also be said of non-union employees as well. Besides, mgmt will be picking up the slack on the job while the strike continues :D
While folks may be quick to jump to conclusions, I would probably look at what's happened the past one or two contracts before going all judgemental on them.
If their contracts are anything like ours, they got a 1% raise each year for the last five years as well as watching their health care premiums triple over the life of the contract.
The sneaky thing my company is doing now is mixing the Unions together. Where part of the group is from Union X and another from Union Y. Makes for all sorts of good times when you find out they make more than you do while doing the exact same job.
I figure the company is doing this to negate Union negotiation leverage by nullifying the strike. If half of any given group is from another Union, then they are under a different contract. It is no coincidence that contracts for the different Unions are ofdset from one another to prevent too many folks from going out on Strike at once.
This way, if Union X goes on strike, Union Y is still there under contract doing the job. The company can weather a strike far more easily this way.
I've tried to point this out to Union officials, but it falls on deaf ears. So I gave up.
They'll figure it out after the company screws everyone over come next contract or two.
IBEW = International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers
Many of the telecom sector employees are Union Members under IBEW. Those that aren't, are usually under CWA. ( Communication Workers of America )
We know what the distinction is, so does Hillary.
If they want to keep something off the news, then they can flag it as FOUO ( For Official Use Only ), Restricted or Confidential. Or, you know, they can fire and prosecute the persons responsible for failing to control themselves.
Once you tag something with any of the usual classification designations, a whole new set of rules goes into play. Breaking any of those rules for information which falls under any of those categories is a felony criminal offense. Period. Ignorance of the rules is not a valid excuse for breaking them. Though it seems that is really only true for us peons. Not the folks running the show :|
As you increase the classification levels, the rules governing the storage and handling of them tend to become more rigid as well. Once you start getting into the upper tiers ( TS, TS/SCI, TS/SAP, Codeword stuff, and beyond ) things start getting silly. Two person control rules, exclusion zones around the area when the material is out of storage, signing of NDA's threatening you with everything under the Sun if you ever disclose it, blahblahblah.
Stripping of the classification markings and sending it unsecured doesn't make it ok. If anything, that's willfully disseminating classified information while trying to bypass the rules regarding it. She ( and anyone who mishandles classified information ) should be fully prosecuted for her actions. Otherwise why bother with making the laws concerning them in the first place ?
Personally, they should time this to ensure any conviction of said crime isn't pardoned by His Majesty before he leaves office.
It would be far easier, and cheaper, to simply pay the company who did it for the FBI vs a lawsuit.
For that matter, they could also brib. . . . er. . . contribute campaign funds to those in Congress who were briefed on the matter.
Ahhhh now see. I can relate a similar experience but with Comcast instead of AT&T.
My neighbors house was purchased by a new family who wasted no time cutting the cable in half with a shovel while planting new trees in their back yard. They give Comcast a ring and they roll a tech out to fix it for them.
To " fix " it, the tech removed my cable line from it's connection on the pedestal and hooked up the neighbors instead. Leaving my entire home quite dead. Internet, Alarm System, Television, etc. Didn't even bother to check to see if the connection was an active customer or not, just disconnected it. :|
Called up Comcast and told them what happened. Told them my service was out BECAUSE one of their technicians disconnected my line. They told me it would be TWO MONTHS before they could send a tech out to fix it :|
As the pedestal resides in my back yard, my solution was far more efficient. I moved the neighbors connection to their original post on the pedestal and reconnected my service back up. Then filed a Complaint on the tech for being incompetent. ( Not that it would do anything, but whatever )
Seriously though, TWO MONTHS to get a tech back out for an outage your tech caused in the first place ? WTF.
Moral of this story: It isn't just AT&T that sucks. They all do in one form or another.
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We will probably set some sort of record for highest thread count. :|