After having been an unlucky player in the Anthem and Home Depot breaches it's ironic the feds aren't more critical of their own shortcomings wrt to the data protection failures at the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) and the IRS. Losses in those incidents affected individuals and extended family. Possibly for years to come.
This is such a typical gov response to a problem. Too many widgets of one type simply pound them into whatever shape necessary until someone decides either the problem is solved or the "solution" didn't work.
While the subject line specifically pertains to the email challenge for Clinton's campaign the pattern is the same. Say nothing until forced to, assume a disengaged electorate will forget, or not care to begin with, then crank out the next "talking point" all on her terms.
Very detailed histories of a persons family, including SSN's, were part of the heist via Form SF-86. Being a longtime defense department contractor whose security clearance details were likely compromised I am pissed. The forms included personal info from friends gracious enough to vouch for my veracity as a trusted agent for the US government. We were expected to protect paper and electronic copies of this form as we would other sensitive data. The joke appears to be on us.
If the number of affected users, via SF86 forms, is as large as reported the implications are enormous. These clearance request forms contain detailed information about the applicant, extended family, references, etc. Fingerprints just ice the cake.
They have doctrine in place in the Security Technical Implementation Guide (STIG), a DISA product, but that would require DHS to exercise best practices and lessons learned levied on other branches of the government. You know, learn from others mistakes, and improve.
Possibly off-topic but now that I am a very seasoned tech worker facing retirement starting investing in your future literally is my vote. There is nothing like time and compound interest so new grads, setup and contribute to that saving plan (401k, 403b). Pay yourself first, you will not regret it.
Back in the 60's I lived on the US naval base in Guantanamo Bay Cuba and our water source was a desalination plant. Extra water was stored in a old ship anchored in the bay. The climate there is similar to SoCal, arid and mountainous. Sounds like a reasonable approach to take and should it rain stored desalinated water would provide a backup plan, which they need.
Ms. Clinton can use her private server for anything personal anytime she wants. Her government business, especially cabinet level correspondence, must originate from a state.gov address. During my work for the DoD email messages had to be digitally signed with a government issued smart card (CAC) to provide authenticity. It's a tenant of best practices. I can't imagine the State Department not adhering to the same standard of security when doing the people's business.
US Department of Defense. Before everyone tosses the healthcare.gov example as typical government failure, my experience as a DoD IT worker for the past 27+ years does not support that example. I currently work with a top tier group of virtualization engineers, any of which a corporation or startup would be fortunate to have on their payroll.
Depends on location and means. I took some programming classes at a NC public university in 1983 where we used punch cards for FORTRAN 77 programs which were batched and sent to the mainframe in Chapel Hiill for overnight processing. One job/run per day was normal. It paid to be a careful programmer.
About the same time CNN decided the news "reader" was the story rather than what was being read. Just because some guy climbs under a table in his hotel room while continuing to speak in frightened, hushed tones does not a great newsman make. Now they are all personalities.
I earned mostly A-B grades in CS and English because I saw value in each. I may have worked harder in some of the liberal arts courses but, as a returning student with a lot to prove, I demanded excellence.
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After having been an unlucky player in the Anthem and Home Depot breaches it's ironic the feds aren't more critical of their own shortcomings wrt to the data protection failures at the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) and the IRS. Losses in those incidents affected individuals and extended family. Possibly for years to come.
everybody would do it. Like engineering, like medicine, like pro football, like many other things.
LLS, carry on.
Now we know what really took place at Volkswagen and the rigged emissions. Underhanded C!
This is such a typical gov response to a problem. Too many widgets of one type simply pound them into whatever shape necessary until someone decides either the problem is solved or the "solution" didn't work.
Influence the outcome.
While the subject line specifically pertains to the email challenge for Clinton's campaign the pattern is the same. Say nothing until forced to, assume a disengaged electorate will forget, or not care to begin with, then crank out the next "talking point" all on her terms.
Very detailed histories of a persons family, including SSN's, were part of the heist via Form SF-86. Being a longtime defense department contractor whose security clearance details were likely compromised I am pissed. The forms included personal info from friends gracious enough to vouch for my veracity as a trusted agent for the US government. We were expected to protect paper and electronic copies of this form as we would other sensitive data. The joke appears to be on us.
If the number of affected users, via SF86 forms, is as large as reported the implications are enormous. These clearance request forms contain detailed information about the applicant, extended family, references, etc. Fingerprints just ice the cake.
They have doctrine in place in the Security Technical Implementation Guide (STIG), a DISA product, but that would require DHS to exercise best practices and lessons learned levied on other branches of the government. You know, learn from others mistakes, and improve.
Possibly off-topic but now that I am a very seasoned tech worker facing retirement starting investing in your future literally is my vote. There is nothing like time and compound interest so new grads, setup and contribute to that saving plan (401k, 403b). Pay yourself first, you will not regret it.
Ironic that the teachers will the one's taking your job.
Back in the 60's I lived on the US naval base in Guantanamo Bay Cuba and our water source was a desalination plant. Extra water was stored in a old ship anchored in the bay. The climate there is similar to SoCal, arid and mountainous. Sounds like a reasonable approach to take and should it rain stored desalinated water would provide a backup plan, which they need.
Ms. Clinton can use her private server for anything personal anytime she wants. Her government business, especially cabinet level correspondence, must originate from a state.gov address. During my work for the DoD email messages had to be digitally signed with a government issued smart card (CAC) to provide authenticity. It's a tenant of best practices. I can't imagine the State Department not adhering to the same standard of security when doing the people's business.
Based on the number of drivers I see texting while driving there appears to be an abundance of self-driving cars where I live.
US Department of Defense. Before everyone tosses the healthcare.gov example as typical government failure, my experience as a DoD IT worker for the past 27+ years does not support that example. I currently work with a top tier group of virtualization engineers, any of which a corporation or startup would be fortunate to have on their payroll.
Same, same for me with respect to Red Hat 2.0 in 1995. I still have my Red Hat 2.0 CD and the manual, the svelte tome it was.
FTFY
I use IE for work related OWA access. It's really the best app for that. For all other browsing, Firefox or Chrome.
If only there was a way to create a more equally gender balanced workforce...
Queue the 'q'mail haters but djb stuff worked.
Depends on location and means. I took some programming classes at a NC public university in 1983 where we used punch cards for FORTRAN 77 programs which were batched and sent to the mainframe in Chapel Hiill for overnight processing. One job/run per day was normal. It paid to be a careful programmer.
About the same time CNN decided the news "reader" was the story rather than what was being read. Just because some guy climbs under a table in his hotel room while continuing to speak in frightened, hushed tones does not a great newsman make. Now they are all personalities.
I earned mostly A-B grades in CS and English because I saw value in each. I may have worked harder in some of the liberal arts courses but, as a returning student with a lot to prove, I demanded excellence.
Ordinary citizens face felony convictions for this while the feds do something similar and are combatting terromism to keep us safe.