The dropbox trick doesn't work well inside a secure environment. In order to access it, you'd have to authenticate yourself as Petraeus (for example). And they (and many security conscious companies) have methods for detecting 'compromised accounts' like two logons from different locations at the same time.
In fact, one report on this topic had the investigation starting based on some unusual attempts made by Broadwell to access Petraeus' account. Not sure if subsequent news has ruled this out. But it does look like the dropbox trick could have been compromised.
Patraeus is a public servant. The military and public servants agree to adhere to a higher standard of ethics when they take their jobs.
Making them easier to blackmail. I'd rather have a public servant agree to adhere to the letter of the law (as applicable to the rest of us) and not be put in a position where his/her behavior, acceptable for the general public, would put his/her job in jeopardy.
Patraeus is said to have sent 20 to 30,000 pages of emails to this lady.. What on earth was he sending her?
Probably a lot of copies of his military and CIA correspondence and reports (sanitized of course) for her use in his biography.
What others have said about the head of the CIA not being able to conceal an affair: This guy is an idiot for not knowing that his life is under scrutiny as a condition of having a secret clearance. Heck, here in Boeing territory, we all know that the DIA contacts our neighbors periodically to see if we (those of us with secret clearances) have 'unusual' lifestyle patterns that might signal possible compromise by foreign intelligence.
Funny anecdote: When conducting interviews, they ask my friends and neighbors not to discuss it with me. But their kids come over and say, "Hey mister! The FBI was asking my dad about you. Are you some sort of criminal or something?" [Yeah, I bury pesky kids in my back yard. So stay off my lawn!] So its pretty easy to find out when they do their rounds.
Can someone point me to an e-mail vendor who can decrypt my traffic? I mean other then the headers needed for delivery?
I wouldn't deal with an ISP* that insisted on holding my private key. And if I were an ISP, I wouldn't want my customer's keys either. It gives me a level of deniability.
*The issues of corporate or government departmental e-mails being somewhat different. The CIA reserves the right to inspect all traffic coming and going from its premises (both e-mails and briefcases).
Actually, it was the other way around. People who went to school to pursue academic interests but also had aptitude for playing sports did so. They'd play, but with the idea that they'd be getting out of school and going into a profession related to their education. But then college (and sadly high school) has become a farm team for the NFL and NBA.
Yeah. Because we all know how few people followed collegiate sports before the advent of Twitter. Or the Internet.
The music market is different. People download to try something new out. There are very few potential football fans that wouldn't have thought of attending a game without having read a few Tweets beforehand.
You act as if there's nothing to be learned from playing sports. There's plenty, both strategy and teamwork spring to mind immediately.
You are addressing an audience largely involved in intellectual pursuits. Teamwork and loyalty to the organization are less important than the physics or logic supporting our decisions. If that is wrong, then the team is wrong. Not a concept I see much from ex-jock co-workers and management.
The whole concept of needing competition to achieve some goal runs counter to the drive to continually improve a product or process absent that competition.
Also, sports give the opportunity to many socio-economically disadvantaged people to obtain a college education that they might not have otherwise had access to.
It would be better to put the money into some scholarships for underprivileged talented kids. The dollars spent would buy more degrees.
Yeah, I know. Many sports are self-supporting. So let the college sponsor a team. If some of the players want to take their salary and enroll in school, fine. But don't stretch the definition of 'student' to capture the necessary roster of first string players to capture a championship. And the profits from ticket sales and TV rights can still be funneled into scholarship programs.
And its not done yet. Climate models need to continually be revised to account for as yet unexplained phenomena. Like why Antarctic ice is growing. Until these models are refined to the point of making reliable predictions, they are of little use to support critical economic decisions. And preliminary decisions already in effect may have to be refined or even reversed should revised theories dictate their change.
On the other hand, if the science is 'done' as many claim, then we could save a bundle of money by defunding a lot of climate research. If only 3 out of 28 'experts' advising government agencies are scientists, it would seem that this is in fact the case.
If business won't spend the money and there's a risk of it losing value, they can hand it back to the shareholders.
and if they invest and win, which they judge unlikely at this point already,
If business has no faith in it's ability to take risks and win, after handing the shareholders their money, they can turn off the lights and close the doors. The shareholders can find some other opportunity for investment.
have politicians pluck down a much larger chunk of the profits,
The claim that lower tax rates lead to higher growth has been debunked. At any rate, we tried it that way. It isn't working. Time to try something different.
... about this incident, the more I envy Petraeus. I can't even begin to count the times I could have used FBI intervention when a bunny-boiler I'd been seeing went off the deep end.
Want to sit on a pile of cash? Fine. It won't be worth much come next year. Greece and Spain (and the US?) are too deep in debt? No problem. Pay your (fixed) obligations with tomorrow's devalued currency.
The problem is that the political landscape is being manipulated by people who have tons of cash and demand a risk-free guaranteed ROI. That's what caused the whole mortgage crisis. People with money went to Congress and then Goldman Sachs demanding some sort of paper that had zero risk and paid big interest. And Goldman's Morlocks went to work creating them for all the rich folks upstairs. But then someone blew the horn.
Sorry. No more free lunch. With return comes risk. Don't like it? Buy a mattress.
If this spreads, it would be impossible to follow Fox News any longer. On account of all their new anchors trying to talk while holding guns in their mouths.
... where they take you through the seven stages of grief? Twelve steps to living a sober life?
Will we have to go up in front of a group and say, "Hi. My name is PPH and I plugged a thumb drive into my SCADA controller. I've been doing Windows for years and I guess it just caught up with me one day."
There used to be numerous state and local laws prohibiting the corporate ownership of auto dealerships. To protect independent dealers from dealership chains and vertical monopolization of the market channel.
I though these laws were thrown out by federal courts years ago. What's up with New York and Massachusetts?
But what sort of information and what sort of problems? And who is to judge?
Being gay in the military used to be a problem. It isn't anymore. At a couple of my past employers, going to the wrong denomination church was (still is?) a major career limiting move.
Like I said in another post: If you have a problem with some sort of non-job related behavior, you probably shouldn't be in a management or decision-making position. Something being "a problem" because its defined as being "a problem" is circular logic. Its fine for some low level grunt who has to read the company rule book. But not for policy makers.
I have an open marriage and my boss doesn't care what I do with my spare time? Want to circulate pictures of me and the mistress? Fine. Can I print some extra copies? I want to send them out as Christmas cards. Blackmail can only be used if someone is threatened by the release of the information.
The FBI was investigating Broadwell (Petraeus' biographer) for accessing e-mails without authorization. Unless she got his e-mail password off a post-it on his office monitor (a major FAIL for the CIA director), that's her problem, not his.
So now, they come to him over the e-mail issue and he breaks down, confesses an affair and resigns??? How do we train these CIA people anyway?
"Abdul, we haven't even put the electrodes on his testicles yet. And already he's crying like a baby and babbling all his secrets!"
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Backups. Some people want them.
Heck, I've still got some ASCII porn backed up on tape somewhere. Now get off my lawn!
The dropbox trick doesn't work well inside a secure environment. In order to access it, you'd have to authenticate yourself as Petraeus (for example). And they (and many security conscious companies) have methods for detecting 'compromised accounts' like two logons from different locations at the same time.
In fact, one report on this topic had the investigation starting based on some unusual attempts made by Broadwell to access Petraeus' account. Not sure if subsequent news has ruled this out. But it does look like the dropbox trick could have been compromised.
Patraeus is a public servant. The military and public servants agree to adhere to a higher standard of ethics when they take their jobs.
Making them easier to blackmail. I'd rather have a public servant agree to adhere to the letter of the law (as applicable to the rest of us) and not be put in a position where his/her behavior, acceptable for the general public, would put his/her job in jeopardy.
Patraeus is said to have sent 20 to 30,000 pages of emails to this lady.. What on earth was he sending her?
Probably a lot of copies of his military and CIA correspondence and reports (sanitized of course) for her use in his biography.
What others have said about the head of the CIA not being able to conceal an affair: This guy is an idiot for not knowing that his life is under scrutiny as a condition of having a secret clearance. Heck, here in Boeing territory, we all know that the DIA contacts our neighbors periodically to see if we (those of us with secret clearances) have 'unusual' lifestyle patterns that might signal possible compromise by foreign intelligence.
Funny anecdote: When conducting interviews, they ask my friends and neighbors not to discuss it with me. But their kids come over and say, "Hey mister! The FBI was asking my dad about you. Are you some sort of criminal or something?" [Yeah, I bury pesky kids in my back yard. So stay off my lawn!] So its pretty easy to find out when they do their rounds.
Can someone point me to an e-mail vendor who can decrypt my traffic? I mean other then the headers needed for delivery?
I wouldn't deal with an ISP* that insisted on holding my private key. And if I were an ISP, I wouldn't want my customer's keys either. It gives me a level of deniability.
*The issues of corporate or government departmental e-mails being somewhat different. The CIA reserves the right to inspect all traffic coming and going from its premises (both e-mails and briefcases).
Actually, it was the other way around. People who went to school to pursue academic interests but also had aptitude for playing sports did so. They'd play, but with the idea that they'd be getting out of school and going into a profession related to their education. But then college (and sadly high school) has become a farm team for the NFL and NBA.
Yeah. Because we all know how few people followed collegiate sports before the advent of Twitter. Or the Internet.
The music market is different. People download to try something new out. There are very few potential football fans that wouldn't have thought of attending a game without having read a few Tweets beforehand.
You act as if there's nothing to be learned from playing sports. There's plenty, both strategy and teamwork spring to mind immediately.
You are addressing an audience largely involved in intellectual pursuits. Teamwork and loyalty to the organization are less important than the physics or logic supporting our decisions. If that is wrong, then the team is wrong. Not a concept I see much from ex-jock co-workers and management.
The whole concept of needing competition to achieve some goal runs counter to the drive to continually improve a product or process absent that competition.
Also, sports give the opportunity to many socio-economically disadvantaged people to obtain a college education that they might not have otherwise had access to.
It would be better to put the money into some scholarships for underprivileged talented kids. The dollars spent would buy more degrees.
Yeah, I know. Many sports are self-supporting. So let the college sponsor a team. If some of the players want to take their salary and enroll in school, fine. But don't stretch the definition of 'student' to capture the necessary roster of first string players to capture a championship. And the profits from ticket sales and TV rights can still be funneled into scholarship programs.
Science is not impartial.
What?!! It had damned well better be.
And its not done yet. Climate models need to continually be revised to account for as yet unexplained phenomena. Like why Antarctic ice is growing. Until these models are refined to the point of making reliable predictions, they are of little use to support critical economic decisions. And preliminary decisions already in effect may have to be refined or even reversed should revised theories dictate their change.
On the other hand, if the science is 'done' as many claim, then we could save a bundle of money by defunding a lot of climate research. If only 3 out of 28 'experts' advising government agencies are scientists, it would seem that this is in fact the case.
If business won't spend the money and there's a risk of it losing value, they can hand it back to the shareholders.
and if they invest and win, which they judge unlikely at this point already,
If business has no faith in it's ability to take risks and win, after handing the shareholders their money, they can turn off the lights and close the doors. The shareholders can find some other opportunity for investment.
have politicians pluck down a much larger chunk of the profits,
The claim that lower tax rates lead to higher growth has been debunked. At any rate, we tried it that way. It isn't working. Time to try something different.
Fine. We're certain that your tax rate will be going to 39.6% come January first and Greece won't be paying your bonds back.
Feel better? Now get to work.
Simple solution: Inflation.
Want to sit on a pile of cash? Fine. It won't be worth much come next year. Greece and Spain (and the US?) are too deep in debt? No problem. Pay your (fixed) obligations with tomorrow's devalued currency.
The problem is that the political landscape is being manipulated by people who have tons of cash and demand a risk-free guaranteed ROI. That's what caused the whole mortgage crisis. People with money went to Congress and then Goldman Sachs demanding some sort of paper that had zero risk and paid big interest. And Goldman's Morlocks went to work creating them for all the rich folks upstairs. But then someone blew the horn.
Sorry. No more free lunch. With return comes risk. Don't like it? Buy a mattress.
If this spreads, it would be impossible to follow Fox News any longer. On account of all their new anchors trying to talk while holding guns in their mouths.
Will we have to go up in front of a group and say, "Hi. My name is PPH and I plugged a thumb drive into my SCADA controller. I've been doing Windows for years and I guess it just caught up with me one day."
Don't know about that one. What do all the blinking red light mean?
There used to be numerous state and local laws prohibiting the corporate ownership of auto dealerships. To protect independent dealers from dealership chains and vertical monopolization of the market channel.
I though these laws were thrown out by federal courts years ago. What's up with New York and Massachusetts?
Sounds like a bad advertising campaign. Emotional appeals: Marketing 101.
Out of scientific arguments already?
But what sort of information and what sort of problems? And who is to judge?
Being gay in the military used to be a problem. It isn't anymore. At a couple of my past employers, going to the wrong denomination church was (still is?) a major career limiting move.
Like I said in another post: If you have a problem with some sort of non-job related behavior, you probably shouldn't be in a management or decision-making position. Something being "a problem" because its defined as being "a problem" is circular logic. Its fine for some low level grunt who has to read the company rule book. But not for policy makers.
BTW, does your wife know you post on Slashdot?
Blackmail would more likely be used
How?
I have an open marriage and my boss doesn't care what I do with my spare time? Want to circulate pictures of me and the mistress? Fine. Can I print some extra copies? I want to send them out as Christmas cards. Blackmail can only be used if someone is threatened by the release of the information.
The FBI was investigating Broadwell (Petraeus' biographer) for accessing e-mails without authorization. Unless she got his e-mail password off a post-it on his office monitor (a major FAIL for the CIA director), that's her problem, not his.
So now, they come to him over the e-mail issue and he breaks down, confesses an affair and resigns??? How do we train these CIA people anyway?
"Abdul, we haven't even put the electrodes on his testicles yet. And already he's crying like a baby and babbling all his secrets!"
Hasn't he watched any James Bond movies lately?