Posted on 06/14/2013 11:49:16 AM PDT by null and void
LOL!!!
Bought a 8GB microSDHC a while back for my phone. It came with 3 adapters. One was only as wide and thick as the USB plug and only 1 1/8” long. 64GB are available. Heck of a lot of data on a chip smaller than my thumbnail. Easy as the dickens to hide in one’s effects or person.
Ding ding ding! we have a winner!
It’s also a bad idea to carry on with a coworker over corporate email. Not only because some nosy admin might read, and discover this. But also because you might fumble finger the reply to and accidentally copy that to your entire group.
Yes, we laughed. The guy had to quit and work somewhere else. Every time he walked in we all chuckled. Even more embarassing he was married and she was one of the owners daughters. Mad mojo all around.
He did it with the help of traitors like Obama and Boehner who empower these people and now call them traitors... but for different reasons than ours...
Yes, I'm a network admin!
Mark
Scary permissions I had...
The really hilarious while horrifying thing about this whole mess is that it seems Congress has hobbled financial IT admins with Sarbanes-Oxley, and medical IT with HIPPA, while at the same time, it seems that the NSA had nowhere near the security requirements and controls of either.
Mark
Well, execdoofus1 HAD been complaining about his email read/not read status being messed up. He wasn’t very techy so I chalked it up to unfamiliarity with his mail client. This was ~20 years ago and we’d just gotten the mail system installed for execdoofuses.
I was young and impressionable. I never would have thought to read users mail so I didn’t think of anyone ELSE reading their mail. I mean. C’mon. They’re users. Users are lusers. Why destroy brain cells reading their mail? It’s like listening to conversations in the WalMart checkout lane. You lose IQ points doing that.
I was more careful after that. I very easily could have been fired over something I’d never done. The tricky part was catching the other guy w/o him knowing i’d been the one to do it. Turns out he’d been using another server as his own personal internet service provider. Using corporate equipment and bandwidth to run web sites for his own personal clients.
You are a hoot. Have made my afternoon.
It is horrifying. Now consider the real possibility that the IRS will have the ability to break through the HIPPA firewall.
Yeah, yeah, yeah...
Booting from paper or magnetic tape after first loading the registers using switches on a PDP-4.
Mark
If we really wanted Snowden back, why did the British warn the airlines NOT to fly him in as he would not be allowed entry...? Presumably, the British are our closest alley, would it follow that extradition would be MUCH easier from England than from Hong Kong? (Yes!)
Obama doesn’t want Snowden back, he wants him dead or gone or discredited.
In the meantime, some Shock-n-Awe in Syria. (Wag the Dog)
If you want to hear a chilling expose on PRISM, listen to the following interview of William Benny, a 40 year career NSA employee who becaame the director of 6,000 analysts in their intelligence area, and who was personally involved with PRISM under Bush.
Former Director of NSA Intelligence teveals the full extent of PRISM capabilities. MUST SEE!
Happy to help.
IF the thumb drive data liberation is true it either means he was an admin OR they have lax standards. Or he’s an uber hacker. Or some combo of the above. Most super sekrit systems have some sort of change control and database access logs.
Lax standards would seem to be out of place in that sort of organization. However, if the real goal is use of this for various and varying political agendas it would ‘help’ this cause to have lack of data accountability. And access to this data by various individuals who might be unaware of one anothers presence in this particular organization.
The latter might be why the elites and certain members of congress are laying eggs. The idea has run through their teeny little brains that the hooker they thought was THEIR hooker might have been seeing other johns on the side.
You just stepped in it. I still have a Curta calculator that I bought in 1970 that’s still in perfect working condition, in its original box, and with its original insructions. Now, beat that!
This article makes it out like he is some sort of genius, but it's not hard to bypass this stuff unless you are a normal user. You may have noticed that they KNOW he copied the files and that he copied them to a USB memory device. That is because if you actually DISABLE the security software that prevents people from copying files to such devices, alarms will go off on ever administrators PC in the place. However, if you simply override the rule that disallows said behavior with the required credentials (which most high level administrators would know), then no one would know until an audit was conducted.
I don't know if he's truly as smart as they are making him out to be, but what he did was a rather simple task for an administrative level person. You will also notice that he split as soon as he got the data and never came back... that's because he knew the next audit would finger him. He wasn't smart enough to actually circumvent the security software (and I don't know anyone personally who could pull off something like that), he simply used a built-in feature that allowed himself an exception to the rules that were in place.
how does one get a security clearance that high with a background that includes an extremely abrasive personality like described in this article. Generally, the first indication you are a hard-headed know it all gets your consideration red stamped forever. Sounds like they may have interviewed one person who just didn't like the guy or something.
Hey look below your post #55. Looks like a “Who’s the oldest IT Fart” contest.
He wins.
I remember punch cards but they were phasing out when I got into computers.
I did have a bitnet addy though.
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