A government employee HAS to abide by the Administrative Code set for them by Policy and Procedure. (I don't even know how many volumes of US Administrative Code there are, hundreds, maybe thousands.) That is the bottom line. The only way you can avoid obedience to the P&P is if you've got enough clout to ignore it. (Which Hillary did, and Trump staffers are doing.)
I've seen this first hand. If you're in IT it happens all the time. Some government Big Shot wants to buck the rules.
But the flip side issue is that the government servers are only so secure (partly because of Big Shots not following best practices). IT can only do so much on the budget they are given and the stupid work-arounds to Best Practices.
The bottom line is no mail server (Public or private) can be made 100% bullet-proof. Hackers will get in. But to save your Public service IT job you follow Best Practices and Standard P&P.
Smart people are soooo easy to game. They fail to understand how logic and reasoning only work in a system that is logical and reasonable. Humanity is neither.
"[Ajit Pai's] plan all along; to offer an extreme frontal assault on net neutrality and FCC authority that would subsequently make any resulting "compromises" seem almost sane."
In talking to the average nimrod on street; Most believe that the FCC was over-regulating ISPs with the current Net Neutrality rules and these nimrods don't want the government deciding what can run on the public's wires (and you know packets on fiber as well).
So let's look at the evidence: That in the U.S. it's a truism that a country governed by a majority will be ruled by the those who feed them.
Cultures much older than the one in the U.S. has been dealing with this for a very long time. Take Africa for instance. For many thousands of years Africa was broken into tribes. A tribe "owned" its land, and it's culture was distinctive. Europeans showed up and shook up the whole place by assigning weird and arbitrary boundaries to the land and giving power to one tribe over another.
Well now it seems that some of those of European dissent living in the U.S. have decided that the tribe (race identity) is a good way to fight for their right to the scarce resources of the land in which they live.
Hmmm, if one ponders this long enough it is easy to see where this leads.
But let's not highlight that a race is behaving in a tribal manner without noting that the other race has done so for millions of years.
The commenters were warning against traveling to the U.S., and I agreed with their assessment. But it seemed to me that they failed to consider that Britain is still a member of Five Eyes, and so it's doubtful the UK would afford you much protection if the U.S. wanted you bad enough. (for evidence see the case against Kim Dotcom)
The smell of this is very Aaron Swartz, or Tamerlan Tsarnaev, -ish to me.
The U.S. government is notorious for first demonizing you in the media, and then eliminating you as a threat.
Good luck to you, Marcus Hutchines, your life might be cut short, but at least you did good before getting the U.S. government treatment.
I don't see it. When the U.S. commits a fault of morality it backs its actions by changing the definition of what is moral. Then when others point that out, the loud and annoying jump on that person whether in social media or other media sources to disparage their claim. The label Fake News is often used to discredit truth when it comes to holding of the U.S.'s feet to the moral fire it so rightly deserves to feel for timeless raping and pillaging of the world and its own populace. Just ask the indigenous people of the Americas how much you can trust the word of the U.S. government.
Now let's have 60 Minutes investigate the Boston Marathon bombing. I suspect the investigation will uncover strikingly similar evidence.
The bottom line in every report of every failure by the U.S. government in regards to any event has been, and will be, summed up in one word "incompetence".
I'm sorry AXANAR PRODUCTIONS for your wrong choice. It wasn't that your choice of material was wrong it was that your choice of country for production was wrong. Next time choose to make jobs where they are wanted.
What if Trump decided to appoint "Ron Swanson" types to the head of each department with the task of making the departments less wasteful and more customer oriented?
Now back to DHS and Kemp: Trump should offer him a job as head of DHS, and tell him, "Put up, or shut up."
As anyone who looks into government should know, government is about government. It's about individuals building kingdoms to control power and money. It's about worker bees invested in keeping their jobs to support their families. (And finding, and keeping tabs on, love interests if they're a part of a spook agency.) It's about "public servants" that are fully invested into a system that works for them; It's their livelihood.
So Trump gets elected by the disenfranchised as a type of "Luddite clog" to break the government system, because it's not meeting their heartfelt needs.
(Of course anarchists are totally on board with this, because as their manifesto states, "A system must be destroyed if something better is to replace it.")
Working in government is weird. Many times you can get away with murder, because it's convenient and gets the job done. Getting the job done is job number one in government. There was a saying in my government office, "You can make any policy you want, but be sure people are going to go around, under, over, or through to get their jobs done."
In my mind this guy was good at his job, and his supervisors turned a blind eye to his actions. Maybe they knew, or maybe they didn't, but I can guarantee you that not one of his supervisors would admit to knowing anything about his actions.
How good of an government employee I'm not sure, but we will be able to tell soon, because the first job of any good government employee is to create your CYA file. I knew of some people who had many cabinet draws full of pictures, memos, emails, and all kinds of evidence covering their actions.
The cardinal rule of government employment is to never do anything unless you have it in writing. Those who don't follow this rule become scapegoats, and are crucified in the audits and cover-ups that are common in government.
I'm sure there are those looking to use some real world catastrophe to justify legislating an Internet Kill Switch. Maybe these DDoS attacks will be that impedes.
Government is About P&P Unless You're Big Enough to Ignore It
I've seen this first hand. If you're in IT it happens all the time. Some government Big Shot wants to buck the rules.
But the flip side issue is that the government servers are only so secure (partly because of Big Shots not following best practices). IT can only do so much on the budget they are given and the stupid work-arounds to Best Practices.
The bottom line is no mail server (Public or private) can be made 100% bullet-proof. Hackers will get in. But to save your Public service IT job you follow Best Practices and Standard P&P.
The System Sock-Puppets
Manning is only a traitor if you're one of the Elite and/or one their henchmen.
Netflix to Pablo Escobar's Brother
The Most Intelligent People Make the Simplest Fools
Gerrymandering the Vote
If AT&T is listening only to that group their assessment would be true.
It Works in Court I'm Sure it Will Work on the Street
In talking to the average nimrod on street; Most believe that the FCC was over-regulating ISPs with the current Net Neutrality rules and these nimrods don't want the government deciding what can run on the public's wires (and you know packets on fiber as well).
So let's look at the evidence: That in the U.S. it's a truism that a country governed by a majority will be ruled by the those who feed them.
Germany, in a First, Shuts Down Left-Wing Extremist Website
Is Godwin's Law the New SLAP
Defenders' Script
Ever Notice How Divisions are Divisive?
Cultures much older than the one in the U.S. has been dealing with this for a very long time. Take Africa for instance. For many thousands of years Africa was broken into tribes. A tribe "owned" its land, and it's culture was distinctive. Europeans showed up and shook up the whole place by assigning weird and arbitrary boundaries to the land and giving power to one tribe over another.
Well now it seems that some of those of European dissent living in the U.S. have decided that the tribe (race identity) is a good way to fight for their right to the scarce resources of the land in which they live.
Hmmm, if one ponders this long enough it is easy to see where this leads.
But let's not highlight that a race is behaving in a tribal manner without noting that the other race has done so for millions of years.
The Register Picked Up on This Story
The smell of this is very Aaron Swartz, or Tamerlan Tsarnaev, -ish to me.
The U.S. government is notorious for first demonizing you in the media, and then eliminating you as a threat.
Good luck to you, Marcus Hutchines, your life might be cut short, but at least you did good before getting the U.S. government treatment.
What's Too Far for a CI
Maybe not, if you consider the incident was a tactical advantage for the FBI.
U.S. Moral High Ground?
Same MO
The bottom line in every report of every failure by the U.S. government in regards to any event has been, and will be, summed up in one word "incompetence".
Pearl Harbor - incompetence
9/11 - incompetence
OMB security breach - incompetence
Unsecured sever breach containing NSA hacking tools - incompetence
How anyone can have faith in such an incompetent organization? I will never understand.
Loss of Control
I Apologize for the Western World
I Know This is Ridiculous, But...
Now back to DHS and Kemp: Trump should offer him a job as head of DHS, and tell him, "Put up, or shut up."
As anyone who looks into government should know, government is about government. It's about individuals building kingdoms to control power and money. It's about worker bees invested in keeping their jobs to support their families. (And finding, and keeping tabs on, love interests if they're a part of a spook agency.) It's about "public servants" that are fully invested into a system that works for them; It's their livelihood.
So Trump gets elected by the disenfranchised as a type of "Luddite clog" to break the government system, because it's not meeting their heartfelt needs.
(Of course anarchists are totally on board with this, because as their manifesto states, "A system must be destroyed if something better is to replace it.")
I Could See This Happening
In my mind this guy was good at his job, and his supervisors turned a blind eye to his actions. Maybe they knew, or maybe they didn't, but I can guarantee you that not one of his supervisors would admit to knowing anything about his actions.
How good of an government employee I'm not sure, but we will be able to tell soon, because the first job of any good government employee is to create your CYA file. I knew of some people who had many cabinet draws full of pictures, memos, emails, and all kinds of evidence covering their actions.
The cardinal rule of government employment is to never do anything unless you have it in writing. Those who don't follow this rule become scapegoats, and are crucified in the audits and cover-ups that are common in government.
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Internet Kill Switch
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