Comment Of Course: Mondays! (Score 1) 78
Just when you thought it couldn't get any worse after the weekend along comes a space rock to turn your already bad Monday into something even worse.
Cheers,
Dave
Just when you thought it couldn't get any worse after the weekend along comes a space rock to turn your already bad Monday into something even worse.
Cheers,
Dave
Keep in mind that Einstein is a DHS program for monitoring the security of government networks from an internal point of view. It consolidates information from participating agencies' firewalls, intrusion detection systems, malware detection, anti-virus scanners, etc,. It has nothing to do with monitoring anyone or anything aside from government-owned systems, government-owned internal networks (i.e. the LAN in a government office building), and the actions of government employees using those internal government-owned stems and networks. In other words, it's exactly the same sort of thing every major company, university, or other organization does in their security operations centers.
Whether or not the data should be kept around for research purposes is a worthwhile question, although publishing it would require a lot of sanitization to avoid revealing data that would be useful to attackers (for instance, the name, IP address, and precise version number of every firewall within a given agency).
But in this case it's not about covering up any surveillance or information gathering on public behavior.
How about records of one or more government agencies intruding into other government agency's or branch's networks?
For instance, could there be evidence contained in those logs of TLAs intruding into the networks of Congress, the SCOTUS, etc?
Never mind TLAs spying on normal everyday citizens. The Executive Branch has been quite cavalier of late in spying on those in the other branches of government, particularly when said other branches may be deciding whether or not to exercise their duty and ability to limit the Executive Branch's power and scope.
This data could provide hard evidence regarding just how extensive and pervasive these practices have become.
Strat
Only if you want to rape the earth with a chainsaw is nuclear the worst option.
People who are against nuclear may as well set fire to an acre of tires in their back yard, it would represent a tiny fraction of the pollution you have caused from the continued and future use of coal plants, you dirty bastard.
Studies have shown that the paleo diet is the healthiest way for humans to eat. And we all know that the earth is overpopulated.
So what you are saying is we know we all should be eating mostly meat, and there's way too much meat on two legs wandering around.
HMM...
Have you ever talked to a little girl? Saying that having to Frozen characters involved might interest more little girls is not sexism, it's the most common of sense.
People like you say you want more women in coding but don't want to do anything real to make it happen, at the level it needs to happen - early education.
So, in other words, Americans are a bunch of mindless drones who use their spare time posting mindless comments to mindless "news"... Who knew?
You mean, like posting to slashdot?
Cheers,
Dave
The next person to mention spaghetti stacks to me is going to have his head knocked off. -- Bill Conrad