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Defense Agency To Begin Moving Classified Data to Amazon's Secret Cloud After Protest
.nextgov.com ^
| MARCH 13, 2018 12:19 PM ET
| By Frank Konkel
Posted on 03/13/2018 8:03:55 PM PDT by slag
For the first time, the Defense Department will begin moving classified data and applications to Amazon Web Services’ Secret Region—the same cloud environment developed for the CIA and intelligence community several years ago.
The Defense Department’s sole-source decision—a contract awarded without a full and open competition—was protested by Microsoft, which itself offers a variety of cloud services to the federal government.
TOPICS: Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: amazon; amazoncloud; bezos; cia; dod; fascism; nationalsecurity; publicprivatedeal; thecloud
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posted on
03/13/2018 8:03:55 PM PDT
by
slag
To: slag
That deal really stinks of rotten fish. Bezos, Amazon, WaPO, CIA, FBI.
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posted on
03/13/2018 8:06:36 PM PDT
by
virgil
(The evil that men do lives after them)
To: slag
What could POSSIBLY go wrong ? ?
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posted on
03/13/2018 8:08:53 PM PDT
by
tomkat
To: slag
Bezos and Amazon pay essentially no taxes.
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posted on
03/13/2018 8:11:41 PM PDT
by
Uncle Miltie
(Demographics destroys cultures more completely than thermonuclear war.)
To: slag
Actually, I don’t see that much of a problem with this - just use pre-internet encryption before putting anything in the cloud. If it never goes down the wire as anything but gibberish then its not of any use to others.
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posted on
03/13/2018 8:14:30 PM PDT
by
glorgau
To: slag
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posted on
03/13/2018 8:14:48 PM PDT
by
G Larry
(There is no great virtue in bargaining with the Devil)
To: slag
Oh yeah - this will end well....
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posted on
03/13/2018 8:20:07 PM PDT
by
SaveFerris
(Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
To: glorgau
which encryption program do YOU use?
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posted on
03/13/2018 8:23:17 PM PDT
by
goodnesswins
(There were 1.41 MILLION NON Profit orgs in 2013 with $1.73 TRILLION in REVENUE)
To: slag
🤔👀🐂💨💩. Gee, what could possibly go wrong?
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posted on
03/13/2018 8:29:27 PM PDT
by
rktman
(Enlisted in the Navy in '67 to protect folks rights to strip my rights. WTH?)
To: tomkat
Doh! I just repeated your post except I added emojis. 👹
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posted on
03/13/2018 8:30:36 PM PDT
by
rktman
(Enlisted in the Navy in '67 to protect folks rights to strip my rights. WTH?)
To: slag
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posted on
03/13/2018 8:47:44 PM PDT
by
Taxman
(Replace the income tax with the FAIRtax and abolish the IRS!)
To: slag
Is it just me, or does anyone else see a major catastrophe waiting to happen???
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posted on
03/13/2018 8:52:59 PM PDT
by
Viking2002
("For they have sown the wind, and they shall reap the whirlwind." Hosea 7:8)
To: slag
An announcement to hackers and crypto-kiddies about the DoD sending classified data to the “Secret” cloud. Brilliant!
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posted on
03/13/2018 8:55:41 PM PDT
by
bluejean
(The lunatics are running the asylum)
To: glorgau
I’d still prefer to deny an attacker access to the information via isolated systems and networks. Make every step in obtaining cleartext information as difficult as possible.
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posted on
03/13/2018 9:00:05 PM PDT
by
ThunderSleeps
(Doing my part to help make America great again!)
To: slag
Hillary won’t even have to sell our secrets anymore.
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posted on
03/13/2018 9:00:22 PM PDT
by
Revel
To: tomkat
I actually have more faith in the private sector taking care of data than the government. I don’t think amazon has ever been hacked or breeched.
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posted on
03/13/2018 9:00:58 PM PDT
by
Psycho_Runner
(Have a good day, unless you have other plans.)
To: slag
“The cloud” is just someone else’s computer.
To: Psycho_Runner
I actually have more faith in the private sector taking care of data than the government. I don’t think amazon has ever been hacked or breeched. The data isn't moving to Amazon's cloud servers. It's just that government servers will be running Amazon's cloud software. Whatever they were running before was probably inferior.
To: slag
There’s classified and then there’s classified. Let’s hope this stuff is just classified.
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posted on
03/13/2018 9:15:30 PM PDT
by
Trod Upon
(Government employees and welfare recipients are both net tax consumers. Often for life.)
To: slag
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posted on
03/13/2018 9:16:34 PM PDT
by
Nifster
(I see puppy dogs in the clouds)
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