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Comment Re:Sadly this is wrong (Score 5, Interesting) 929

If I had points I would mod you up. You are correct the indictment is for hacking. Seems helped Manning hack a password for the SPIPRNET Though manning had access to TS Level information it is compartmentalized and your not just able to get data from the State Department and other entities. Assange helped him by providing information how to do it. Thus becoming a co-conspirator to the hacking. The indictment is floating around various news sites for anyone to see.

Comment Will PC culture do what Microsoft couldn't? (Score 1) 663

I'm wondering if this is a harbinger of death for the kernel. You don't approve my patches ? You must be a sexist! Okay will allow this one memory leak so you don't hash tag me on twitter. Ever notice how many 'articles' by news sites just report what somebody tweeted? Why investigate when you can just be troll on twitter.

Comment Warrants are apparently meaningless (Score 1) 60

The secret FISA court even recognized that they were just being used. http://circa.com/politics/bara... "The normally supportive court censured administration officials, saying the failure to disclose the extent of the violations earlier amounted to an “institutional lack of candor” and that the improper searches constituted a “very serious Fourth Amendment issue,” according to a recently unsealed court document dated April 26, 2017. The admitted violations undercut one of the primary defenses that the intelligence community and Obama officials have used in recent weeks to justify their snooping into incidental NSA intercepts about Americans."

Comment Re:So, a CBP 'plant' can spy on Top Secret? Stupid (Score 1) 627

And you can put top secret information on a phone and just leave the country? I am astounded at the level of stupidity here. He could not carry a government phone carrying any type of restricted information out of the country. When he received that phone he would have had to sign a waiver of all expectation of privacy. But its the Verge reporting on a guys Facebook post. Since his last name isn't Clinton he would be jail.

Comment Re:He didn't have authority to grant permission (Score 1) 627

Not only are you not a lawyer, you also know nothing about export control. This story is crap. Not only does he not have any expectation of privacy on that device he had to sign a waiver saying as much when he was given it. And if there were anything sensitive on it he would be in jail not posting on Facebook.

Comment Re: Export Controls? (Score 1) 627

B.S. I work for NASA and was previously in the Air Force. You cannot take a government phone with any kind of restricted information on it. Period, end of discussion. Since nobody at the Verge did much in the name of research beyond this guys Facebook posts, I wouldn't be surprised if a whole lot of information about this incident isn't left out. When I went out of the country on business I was specifically given a laptop that had nothing that could not be viewed by the public. I was also told and signed a form that stated I would not put any classified or restricted information on it and that I had no expectation of privacy. Its government property not yours, what if the the Chilean government had detained him? He is going to tell them no? That's why we have regulations in place on taking devices out of the country. In fact if you take your own phone you still have to sign a form saying your doing so and the it is not connected to a government email account. Every year we take a refresher course on the rules.

Comment Re:Double standard (Score 4, Insightful) 156

And using bleach bit to permanently delete emails wasn't destroying evidence? Even though it was a fools errand because it existed on recipient computers is beside the point. There was a clear intent there to conceal. So yes there is a very big double standard. A Navy guy in Portsmouth VA was convicted and all he did was connect his tablet to receive emails in the field. No intent, no destroying evidence, just mishandling. I can recount an airman getting an article 15 for leaving a safe unlocked. The safe was in a secure facility designed to allow and store classified information. Basically a safe inside a vault. Career ruined over a simple lapse.

Comment Re:Coal workers (Score 1) 504

Those "dumb rednecks" could always manufacture guns. Wouldn't that be nice. From the election map by counties most liberals are either completely surrounded or have only an ocean at their backs. I bet only a portion of the billions spent subsidizing solar could build a very good filter for miners to use.

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