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Posted on 06/16/2015 6:34:20 AM PDT by Rockitz
The first reports of the massive penetration of Office of Personnel Management files and security clearance applications — apparently by Chinese hackers most likely working for, or with, that country’s military intelligence apparatus — included grumbles from the affected employees that the administration didn’t handle the situation very well.
Those early grumbles were but the snap responses of a few individual employees the media chose at random. Now that the millions of people potentially affected by the hack have been given a few days to digest the news and consider the Administration’s response, their attitude has soured into what government employees described to BuzzFeed as “collective panic.”
It is interesting that the mainstream press has not exerted itself to collect a wide range of responses. Usually they’re all about the human-interest angle. Every news organization could easily talk to dozens, or hundreds, of federal employees and produce a piece like BuzzFeed’s, but they have not.
Tellingly, only former government employees jeopardized by the hack were willing to go on the record with BuzzFeed. Current employees insisted on remaining anonymous.
(Excerpt) Read more at breitbart.com ...
good news!
What’s the percentage of Obama voters in this group?
As contractors, my company was told the only persons affected by this are current Government Civilians and Military. But I don’t think they can truthfully say this, myself. I don’t think they have a clue about how many times and what was accessed and taken.
What percentage of the “panic”ed were responsible for the network security?
There are three aspects to this.
1. If you are a higher-range VIP with the State Department or CIA....doing anything related to China....you will eventually be targeted if you are inflexible in talks. They will sell your data to some kid in Vegas who will get you deep into ID-theft issues and you lose your clearance over this. I would expect a minimum of a two-dozen people a year to start discovering their career choice is ended.
2. For all these years...NO one wanted to fix ID theft. Face it....no one from the banking sector wants it fixed. You should ask why. No Senator cares....ask them why. Now? I think someone is going to wake up and demand ID-theft solutions asap.
3. Over the past decade....a lot of us who had clearances and did the stupid five-year updates and filled out the forms....continually asked how they protected the data we gave them. We got stupid answers. I remember how the dimwit answered my question in 2009....”we have a firewall”. Personally, I think we should now protect our own secrets better than we protect the government’s secrets. Give them as little as possible.
Other articles have stated “back to 1985” which even then is ludicrous. I went through a Secret and Top Secret before 1985 and I’d bet you a dinner for two at Ruth’s Chris that there is a Chinese computer with all my information in it.
Another salient quote in the article:
Former NSA counterintelligence officer John R. Schindler, who previously advanced some valuable insights about the OPM hack on his own blog, wrote a hefty piece for the Daily Beast on Monday in which he argues “China’s hack just wrecked American espionage.”
99.999% pure.....................
Same for me as you but back even farther, current through now....and I won’t take that bet. :0)
You mean besides the one in DC?..................
Didn’t Obama say his soul duty is to protect the American people?
Hmmm...culture of fear. Wonder how many stories will come out of the woodwork if a Republican wins the presidency and does a clean sweep of the appointees?
17 And that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name.
He means Obama......................
Schadenfreude ?
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4. ??? Are the exempt ones even in this data breach ? Lawmakers may be ignoring this cause they are ‘exempt’ from risk.
5.56mm
I’m a Federal Employee and the parent of two adopted Chinese children.
We had to supply everything but a DNA sample during the adoption process.
China already knows more about me than OPM does.
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