qu1nn’s Comments

• Mar 16th, 2018 @ 8:18pm

  Re: Just more proof they screwed up

  on Judge Tells Prosecutors They Need To Prove Contractor Knew He Had Classified Docs In His 50-Terabyte Stash
  Never had a security clearance, but I'm currently a seasonal tax preparer, have worked for IRS for two seasons as a data transcriber, and temped for Caremark/CVS's mail order prescription processing department. Taxes and scripts are about the most sensitive info you can have access to if you DON'T have a security clearance imo.
  
  My current job I *could* walk off with either the hard copies of my clients' returns or access the information contained on them from pretty much anywhere with an internet connection if I wanted to, but that's mostly because the franchise I work for isn't even willing to upgrade our wireless quality let alone invest in better information security.
  
  (I don't consider making us change passwords mid-season or forcing us to use a second-level sign-in with a text or email code a couple times a season a genuine upgrade, because right now I have the same password as one of my work partners due to hiccups in the "change your password" process and also have my area manager's sign-in info for cases where I need that level of access but she's out of the office/sick/unreachable.)
  
  That was NOT true for either IRS (you have to have a employee card to get into the gated parking lot and then to show human security people to get into the processing area and you're required to decline processing any return where you know ANYBODY on it including the person preparing it) or Caremark (you only have access while logged into the company system not remotely, at least at my level).
  
  So yeah, while there's a non-zero chance this was an espionage case, I think SOMEBODY fell down on the job somewhere above this dude's head to make the "walk out with 50 TB of data" scenario possible at all.
• Mar 16th, 2018 @ 5:53pm

  Re: Exclusionary Rule vs. Exclusionary Suggestion

  on Federal Court Tells ATF It Can't Just Help Itself To Cell Phone Data Seized By Another Law Enforcement Agency
  pretty much, yeah. given the number of messed-up warrants for PHYSICAL evidence that have gotten citizens, pets, and cops killed i do not even want to guess at how fucked-up searches for technological evidence can potentially be.
• Mar 16th, 2018 @ 5:22pm

  Re: Re: Re: Another make work project

  on FBI Uncovers Another Of Its Own Plots, Senator Feinstein Responds By Saying We Should Censor The Internet
  As a mentally ill person who's on Medicare and SSDI, I can assure you that yes, the government picks on mentally ill people.
  
  Cases in point that I've been through personally:
  1) LPC's (my current talk therapist is one) cannot be Medicare providers,but MSW's can be. The educational requirements for both degrees are similar enough that I have no idea why.
  
  2) Because the compensation for Medicare patients is not great and the paperwork's a pain, a LOT of psychiatrists/neurologists/etc. won't accept Medicare, and that frequently leaves patients having to make multiple calls to find one who will if their prior provider quits taking it/moves/retires. I got lucky with my current (two "state's best doctors" list certificates, deserves them) but he was a straight-up cold call and I'm already dreading his retirement.
• Mar 16th, 2018 @ 5:12pm

  Re: Re: I wouldn't rely on the Anarchist's Cookbook's recipes.

  on FBI Uncovers Another Of Its Own Plots, Senator Feinstein Responds By Saying We Should Censor The Internet
  if it was hydrocodone or promethazine (or even Nyquil which at least at one point was something like 20 proof) i imagine the cough syrup thing *did* work.
  
  (another one to skip: supposedly you can get high off smoking the *spice* variety of mace. based on my personal experience, that's a lie.)