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Submission + - NSA Broke Into Links Between Google, Yahoo Datacenters (washingtonpost.com) 2

Submitted by barlevg
barlevg writes: The Washington Post reports that, according to documents obtained from Edward Snowden, through their so-called "MUSCULAR" initiative, the National Security Agency has exploited a weakness in the transfers between data centers, which Google and others pay a premium to send over secure fiber optic cables. The leaked documents include a post-it note as part of an internal NSA Powerpoint presentation showing a diagram of Google network traffic, an arrow pointing to the Google front-end server with text reading, "SSL Added and Removed Here" with a smiley face. When shown the sketch by The Post and asked for comment, two engineers with close ties to Google responded with strings of profanity.

Comment Re:too much wheel reinvention (Score 1) 362

by eneville (#45261491) Attached to: Debian To Replace SysVinit, Switch To Systemd Or Upstart

Reinventing the wheel is how you put your collective mark on things. Programmers like writing things, and there is a natural desire to write rather then use, and a warm fuzzy feeling when other people use what you have written.

The whole unix way is to reuse, http://catb.org/esr/writings/unix-koans/ten-thousand.html comes to mind.

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