Report: An Unsecured Department of Defense Server Has Been Spilling Terabytes of Sensitive Military Emails and Information Out Into the Ether For Weeks

Via Joe Mannix, another favor for China.

The U.S. Department of Defense secured an exposed server on Monday that was spilling internal U.S. military emails to the open internet for the past two weeks.
The exposed server was hosted on Microsoft's Azure government cloud for Department of Defense customers, which uses servers that are physically separated from other commercial customers and as such can be used to share sensitive but unclassified government data. The exposed server was part of an internal mailbox system storing about three terabytes of internal military emails, many pertaining to U.S. Special Operations Command, or USSOCOM, the U.S. military unit tasked with conducting special military operations.
But a misconfiguration left the server without a password, allowing anyone on the internet access to the sensitive mailbox data inside using only a web browser, just by knowing its IP address.
Anurag Sen, a good-faith security researcher known for discovering sensitive data that has been inadvertently published online, found the exposed server over the weekend and provided details to TechCrunch so we could alert the U.S. government.

I bet the people responsible for server security were all extensively briefed on proper pronoun usage, though.

The Adults Are Back In Charge, &c.

Posted by: Ace at 05:40 PM

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1 Yeah, but social justice!

Posted by: Xipe Totec at February 21, 2023 05:41 PM (pohLc)

2 Oh goody.

Posted by: Catherine at February 21, 2023 05:41 PM (ZSsrh)

3 So?

Posted by: Hillary's Bathroom Email servers at February 21, 2023 05:41 PM (WmGrA)

4 First, sponge. You slacker.

Posted by: Xipe Totec at February 21, 2023 05:41 PM (pohLc)

5 Oh yeah

Posted by: Big Alfredo at February 21, 2023 05:42 PM (Bwa/+)

6 Top men!

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at February 21, 2023 05:42 PM (uNylN)

7 Our Military leaders are literally working for China

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo, food, water at February 21, 2023 05:42 PM (/6ur0)

8 Not Us.

Posted by: DoDs Best and Brightest! at February 21, 2023 05:43 PM (WmGrA)

9 I hope it was mostly the entire season of She-Hulk.

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at February 21, 2023 05:43 PM (zZu0s)

10 lol, Microsoft Azure...I think I spotted the flaw.

I worked on Azure. No serious military would use it.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo, food, water at February 21, 2023 05:43 PM (/6ur0)

11 So these servers are physically separated but still connected to the same public internet? Seems like security theatre then.

Posted by: Liberty at February 21, 2023 05:43 PM (VIGdd)

12 FIRST!!!!!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at February 21, 2023 05:44 PM (Zz0t1)

13 "The exposed server was hosted on Microsoft's Azure government cloud for Department of Defense customers, which uses servers that are physically separated from other commercial customers "

No they weren't. I'd put money on it.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo, food, water at February 21, 2023 05:44 PM (/6ur0)

14
Hey
Those fat burners advertisements shrink women boobs? That might impact sales

Posted by: Yo! Ultra MAGA at February 21, 2023 05:44 PM (4kKCt)

15 Diversity, Equity and Inclusion is our mission!!

Posted by: Marcus T at February 21, 2023 05:44 PM (8Voqu)

16 The new normal.

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at February 21, 2023 05:44 PM (eYoxG)

17 6 Top men!

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at February 21, 2023 05:42 PM (uNylN)

Probably Top Trannies.

Posted by: Gref at February 21, 2023 05:44 PM (AMIL/)

18 "Do not underestimate Joe Biden's ability to f*ck things up."

- - Bathhouse Barry Soetoro

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at February 21, 2023 05:45 PM (Zz0t1)

19 Losers.

Posted by: Hillary Clinton at February 21, 2023 05:45 PM (mZ3xv)

20 How does someone access a "spilled" email?

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at February 21, 2023 05:45 PM (63Dwl)

21 lol, Microsoft Azure...I think I spotted the flaw.

I worked on Azure. No serious military would use it.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo, food, water at February 21, 2023 05:43 PM (/6ur0)

Heh. I've said the cloud is a shitty idea and only an idiot would trust it with their data.

The world is full of idiots.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at February 21, 2023 05:46 PM (Zz0t1)

22 Again. The Cloud is another name for: Someone else's hard drive.

Posted by: Steve_in_SoCal at February 21, 2023 05:46 PM (NW9xb)

23 Heh. I've said the cloud is a shitty idea and only an idiot would trust it with their data.

The world is full of idiots.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at February 21, 2023 05:46 PM (Zz0t1)

22 Again. The Cloud is another name for: Someone else's hard drive.
Posted by: Steve_in_SoCal at February 21, 2023 05:46 PM (NW9xb)

Yes
and
Yes

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo, food, water at February 21, 2023 05:46 PM (/6ur0)

24 just by knowing its IP address.
------------
USSOCOMtube.com

Posted by: andycanuck (Vwz3I) at February 21, 2023 05:47 PM (Vwz3I)

25 1or 2 days ago:
"...the Pentagon’s diversity and inclusion initiative is “a strategic imperative critical to mission readiness and accomplishment.”

Posted by: Fool Otto at February 21, 2023 05:47 PM (DB16e)

26 So?

What difference, at this point, does it make?

Posted by: Hillary Clinton at February 21, 2023 05:47 PM (Zz0t1)

27 I'm really concerned that a lot of those emails didn't have pronouns in their signatures

Posted by: The Unvaxxed and Unmasked Ranger - Longing to Lie in Zooey Deschanel's Bosom for Comfort at February 21, 2023 05:47 PM (VTu1l)

28 We Be Comin'!

Posted by: Lloyd Ass-ton at February 21, 2023 05:47 PM (WmGrA)

29 DAMN YOU, TRUMP!

Posted by: State Media! at February 21, 2023 05:47 PM (2tUFv)

30 Doesn't matter if it's in Azure or in a rack in a data center you own.

Security is on the server owner, not the hosting site.

Well, other than physical security of the cage.

In general, multi-tenet can be problematic.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at February 21, 2023 05:48 PM (mZ3xv)

31 I wonder if there is anyone in Army CIC who is smart enough to do the forensic investigation properly to determine if this was an accident or deliberate?

Posted by: Diogenes at February 21, 2023 05:48 PM (anj39)

32 The people responsible for sacking the people that should have been sacked have been sacked.

Posted by: fd at February 21, 2023 05:48 PM (iayUP)

33 We flagged Azure as a NOGO due to numerous security flaws, especially after the Cosmos and Stack crap was discovered. It garbage. Therefore the U.S. military uses it.

Posted by: Marcus T at February 21, 2023 05:48 PM (8Voqu)

34 32 The people responsible for sacking the people that should have been sacked have been sacked.
Posted by: fd at February 21, 2023 05:48 PM (iayUP)

*starts sharpening a toothbrush*

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo, food, water at February 21, 2023 05:49 PM (/6ur0)

35 > No they weren't. I'd put money on it.

They're just saying the server instances weren't co-located with other Azure customers on the same machines. If the site was reachable from the internet just by knowing the IP address, most normal people would say that's not "separated."

Posted by: bonhomme at February 21, 2023 05:49 PM (eyxn4)

36 This was the only way the BIden Admin could find out what Special Ops were doing. They still haven't been briefed. And, if you can imperil operations around the world...bonus!

Posted by: t-bird at February 21, 2023 05:49 PM (ptElO)

37 We have decided that email should be freemail.

Posted by: DoD PR Dept. at February 21, 2023 05:50 PM (WmGrA)

38 Why is the government relying on private cloud servers for extremely sensitive data? Does nobody in the entire defense department know how to set up a fucking data server?

Posted by: Elric Blade at February 21, 2023 05:51 PM (S63LR)

39 Wait wait wait wait wait.

You have to REALLY work at making a server without a password anymore.

I don't believe this was a "mistake."

Posted by: blaster at February 21, 2023 05:52 PM (aSZS0)

40 If its on the Internet its exposed. Password or no password. All you can do is make it harder.

And the DoD instead made it as easy as Hillary's bathroom server.

Posted by: Anna Puma at February 21, 2023 05:52 PM (e/Ar7)

41
So, what's the over/under for when Xi lands at Dulles International, takes a cab over to the White House saunters into the Oval Office, kicks Biden in the nuts, says "Get Out, Lame-ass, this is my country now.", takes a seat behind the Resolute Desk,

and starts running the US like one big Panda Express.

Oh, and makes McConnell wear one of those little paper Panda Express manager hats.

Posted by: naturalfake at February 21, 2023 05:52 PM (KLPy8)

42 Hey it's a lot easier than picking up the phone and whispering all our secrets to Xi.

Posted by: Gen. Miley Vanilli at February 21, 2023 05:52 PM (nnp+f)

43 38 Why is the government relying on private cloud servers for extremely sensitive data? Does nobody in the entire defense department know how to set up a fucking data server?
Posted by: Elric Blade at February 21, 2023 05:51 PM (S63LR

Because Microsoft made them a sweet deal.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at February 21, 2023 05:52 PM (mZ3xv)

44 servers that are physically separated from other commercial customers

in a lock. box.

Posted by: Al Gore at February 21, 2023 05:53 PM (e2onP)

45 Three terabytes? So I guess a few dozen emails with their corresponding porn and kiddie porn attachments.

Posted by: Elric Blade at February 21, 2023 05:53 PM (S63LR)

46 The Cloud - marketing 101 rebranding to sell an old idea as new.

The massive data center has come back.

Posted by: Anna Puma at February 21, 2023 05:54 PM (e/Ar7)

47 I remember when FedGov had the ability to run their own email servers. I did that for them for *a long time*.

Then... the likes of Microsoft, Google and others pitched "cloud" computing and other services. FedGov, being a bitch, said, yea... gimmie that.

What the fuck could go wrong has gone wrong. This ain't the first instance of an outsourced service to FedGov being stupid.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at February 21, 2023 05:54 PM (Q4IgG)

48 Put it in the cloud they said. It's safe in the cloud they said.

Posted by: Count de Monet at February 21, 2023 05:54 PM (4I/2K)

49 Barrel?

Posted by: Commissar of Plenty and Lysenko Solutions at February 21, 2023 05:54 PM (zxE6v)

50 Because Microsoft made them a sweet deal.
Posted by: AlaBAMA at February 21, 2023 05:52 PM (mZ3xv)

This.

Posted by: blaster at February 21, 2023 05:54 PM (aSZS0)

51 Speaking of, Twitter is down

Posted by: weft cut-loop at February 21, 2023 05:54 PM (XF9Gj)

52 WTF would that host that in a cloud network run by a private company. This is a LONG way from sneakernet and air-gapped!

Posted by: Woke Explosive Ordnance Disposal Team at February 21, 2023 05:54 PM (ssESX)

53 One thing I’ve noticed with all of these “mistakes.” No one ever gets fired.

Posted by: Duke Lowell at February 21, 2023 05:54 PM (u73oe)

54 But a misconfiguration left the server without a password

Ooo-ooh...somebody's gonna get a training module!

Posted by: t-bird at February 21, 2023 05:54 PM (e2onP)

55 Most emails are small. KB in size. 3 TB is a lot of emails, even with the occasional attachment.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at February 21, 2023 05:55 PM (mZ3xv)

56 "WTF would they"...

Posted by: Woke Explosive Ordnance Disposal Team at February 21, 2023 05:55 PM (ssESX)

57 That the DoD uses computers OWNED BY a PRIVATE COMPANY, to story data... is stupid.

You cannot vet everyone in that company for security access, its both too large, AND its a multinational coporation.

Posted by: Romeo13 at February 21, 2023 05:55 PM (oHd/0)

58 Running the US government as a Panda Express would be a step up.

Posted by: Anna Puma at February 21, 2023 05:55 PM (e/Ar7)

59 Email

To: COMPACFLT

Subject: Menu

Date: 21 FEB 2023

1. Today's menu for the Pentagon cafeteria

2. Hot dog with curly fries

3. Tomato soup

4. Garden salad

End

Posted by: Archer at February 21, 2023 05:55 PM (gmo/4)

60 Speaking of, Twitter is down
Posted by: weft cut-loop

Make it permanent.

Posted by: Joe Mama at February 21, 2023 05:55 PM (WmGrA)

61 All on its own or after money has been exchanged

Posted by: Skip at February 21, 2023 05:55 PM (xhxe8)

62 Every Day, In Every Way, DIVERSITY comes up in ALL the meetings I am in and the higher up on the food chain you are, the more persuasive it is. Makes me want to both puke and bitch slap my Admiral.

Posted by: Nevergiveup at February 21, 2023 05:55 PM (EVR4i)

63 3 TB is a lot of pron, even for the DOD

Posted by: Archer at February 21, 2023 05:55 PM (gmo/4)

64 And people said MY emails were insecure!

Why would I trust my email on a government provided server?

Posted by: Hillary Clinton at February 21, 2023 05:56 PM (aSZS0)

65 NGU

Time to put in the retirement paperwork?

Posted by: Anna Puma at February 21, 2023 05:56 PM (e/Ar7)

66 > We flagged Azure as a NOGO due to numerous security flaws, especially after the Cosmos and Stack crap was discovered.

Yeah, Cosmiss was a bad one, but you had to be a user of Azure Cosmos DB using Jupyter Notebooks. That seems like a very narrow group of users to me.

I've seen plenty of AWS critical vulnerabilities as well, so I'm not sure how one can write off an entire platform based on who has had them. End users are much more likely to open themselves up to vulnerabilities by misconfiguring their instances than they are to be hit with something spanning the platform.

Posted by: bonhomme at February 21, 2023 05:56 PM (eyxn4)

67 The clintoons are telling the ubamas 'damn, we shoulda done that.'.

Posted by: Eromero at February 21, 2023 05:57 PM (MF3yS)

68 I've been bitching about the dumbassery of of DoD using cloud servers for years. But they'll still keep doing it, because the dumbasses that make the decision to use them are dumbasses.

Posted by: Bert G at February 21, 2023 05:57 PM (aCgRi)

69 64 And people said MY emails were insecure!

Why would I trust my email on a government provided server?
Posted by: Hillary Clinton at February 21, 2023 05:56 PM (aSZS0

Oddly, in some weird, fucked up way, this actually makes Hillary look smart for keeping her shit on a private server.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at February 21, 2023 05:57 PM (mZ3xv)

70 Rule of thumb, if it's in "the cloud" it's on the internet. Anything that can be reached by internet has some risk of being hacked, even if only through social engineering techniques. If you put classified info in the cloud, it's on the internet!

Posted by: Woke Explosive Ordnance Disposal Team at February 21, 2023 05:57 PM (ssESX)

71 This is not good news but it does point out the difference between the United States and all other countries. I'm not the first to say it but I forgot which historian did but the United States airs its dirty laundry in public like nobody's business.

Posted by: polynikes at February 21, 2023 05:57 PM (9xBUc)

72 Put it in the cloud they said. It's safe in the cloud they said.

"Cloud Computing- now with Chinese Spy Balloons!"

Posted by: t-bird at February 21, 2023 05:57 PM (e2onP)

73 States use a private company to count votes for them
The stupidity is baked into the cake

Posted by: Skip at February 21, 2023 05:57 PM (xhxe8)

74 NGU

Time to put in the retirement paperwork?
Posted by: Anna Puma at February 21, 2023 05:56 PM (e/Ar7)

I am out in OCT. I will be 69. Hard to believe I made it this long. And yes it is TIME, before I go Postal on someone

Posted by: Nevergiveup at February 21, 2023 05:57 PM (EVR4i)

75 Look fat! That server was sitting in my garage next to my Corvette and a box full of Hustlers. Locked, JACK!
*whispers* (not getting in)

Posted by: Joe Bidenski at February 21, 2023 05:58 PM (Edjcx)

76 My guess is there are plenty of spies with full admin access to DOD Azure and O365 accounts. They don't even have to come in thru the front door.

Posted by: fd at February 21, 2023 05:58 PM (iayUP)

77 Every Day, In Every Way, DIVERSITY comes up in ALL the meetings I am in and the higher up on the food chain you are, the more persuasive it is. Makes me want to both puke and bitch slap my Admiral.

Posted by: Nevergiveup at February 21, 2023 05:55 PM (EVR4i)

Eh, Diversity is a magic word now. And in the military, all the high-ups show they're on board with the "mission" by repeating the magic word a lot.

Posted by: naturalfake at February 21, 2023 05:58 PM (KLPy8)

78 Lighten up: yoga, wedding plans , uniform nail salon applications, HIV medication, recipes.

Posted by: Holy Crap at February 21, 2023 05:58 PM (glGDV)

79 NGU going Postal in the Pentagon, he's gonna drill some teeth baby!

Posted by: Anna Puma at February 21, 2023 05:59 PM (e/Ar7)

80 57 That the DoD uses computers OWNED BY a PRIVATE COMPANY, to story data... is stupid.

You cannot vet everyone in that company for security access, its both too large, AND its a multinational coporation.
Posted by: Romeo13
__________

What, you don't trust me?

Posted by: Bill Gates at February 21, 2023 05:59 PM (gf7Ez)

81 To follow up on my mini-rant at 68, just wait until you hear the phrase "tactical cloud". They're fucking dumbasses, I tell you.

Posted by: Bert G at February 21, 2023 05:59 PM (aCgRi)

82 ...and starts running the US like one big Panda Express.

Might be an improvement on the current situation. At least Panda Express lets me see what I'm getting and how much it's going to cost me.

Posted by: Oddbob at February 21, 2023 05:59 PM (nfrXX)

83 > Why is the government relying on private cloud servers for extremely sensitive data?

1. They claim this wasn't extremely sensitive data.
2. This was a gov't employee mis-configuring a server hosted on Azure. Azure has nothing to do with the configuration. If the gov't was hosting the server, the gov't employee would still have fucked it up the same way.

Posted by: bonhomme at February 21, 2023 06:00 PM (YYlyE)

84 Tactical cloud?

*turns the ECM jammers up to 11*

Posted by: Anna Puma at February 21, 2023 06:00 PM (e/Ar7)

85 Spokesperson for Microsoft Azure, Huang Chen, said he was so solly, never happen again.

Posted by: pawn at February 21, 2023 06:00 PM (wsHtO)

86 3 TB is a lot of emails, even with the occasional attachment.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at February 21, 2023 05:55 PM (mZ3xv)

Don't forget PowerPoint! That shit can be big, and I have heard that it is the preferred method of wasting time among the leeches in the DoD.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at February 21, 2023 06:00 PM (XIJ/X)

87 Surprised DoD didn't blame climate change.

Posted by: Beartooth at February 21, 2023 06:01 PM (N52dd)

88 Good stuff, NGU. Try to stay sane for 8 months.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at February 21, 2023 06:01 PM (OJQUs)

89 "Three may keep a secret, if two of them are dead." –Benjamin Franklin, Poor Richard's Almanack

Posted by: Count de Monet at February 21, 2023 06:01 PM (4I/2K)

90 I've been bitching about the dumbassery of of DoD using cloud servers for years. But they'll still keep doing it, because the dumbasses that make the decision to use them are dumbasses.

If it makes you feel any better, the CIA puts much of their stuff on air-gapped servers.

Posted by: Reuben Hick at February 21, 2023 06:01 PM (l7lsb)

91 The border patrol seized 6 tons of Fentanyl in 2022.

6 tons.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at February 21, 2023 06:01 PM (mZ3xv)

92 That the DoD uses computers OWNED BY a PRIVATE COMPANY, to story data... is stupid.

You cannot vet everyone in that company for security access, its both too large, AND its a multinational coporation.
Posted by: Romeo13 at February 21, 2023 05:55 PM (oHd/0)

Everybody uses Microsoft. Everyone uses Teams, everyone uses Outlook... everything done within the government is running through Bill Gates' fingers.

Why, it's almost like the government works for Bill Gates, and not the other way round.

Almost.

Posted by: BurtTC at February 21, 2023 06:01 PM (7y7ic)

93 Its okay. They've restored the password now.

12345

Posted by: ... at February 21, 2023 06:02 PM (BXxcV)

94 20 How does someone access a "spilled" email?
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at February 21, 2023 05:45 PM (63Dwl)

With a cloth.

Posted by: Reforger at February 21, 2023 06:02 PM (075tX)

95 They put the Xi in IT

Posted by: Minnfidel at February 21, 2023 06:02 PM (oE0yX)

96 3 TB is a lot of emails, even with the occasional attachment.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at February 21, 2023 05:55 PM (mZ3xv)

Don't forget PowerPoint! That shit can be big, and I have heard that it is the preferred method of wasting time among the leeches in the DoD.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo

And 4K in-house made tranny videos, they love sharing that stuff.

Posted by: Reuben Hick at February 21, 2023 06:02 PM (l7lsb)

97 Air gap is a gyp if the SIPRNET and non-SPIRNET computers are only inches apart.

Posted by: Anna Puma at February 21, 2023 06:02 PM (e/Ar7)

98 Makes me want to both puke and bitch slap my Admiral.

Posted by: Nevergiveup at February 21, 2023 05:55 PM (EVR4i)

Be careful...you might knock him off his Navy-issued high heels and he'll turn an ankle!

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at February 21, 2023 06:03 PM (XIJ/X)

99 Math-ish Warning...

The amount of trouble resulting from the combination of incompetence and corruption is exponential rather than additive.

Posted by: davidt at February 21, 2023 06:03 PM (SYTee)

100 *turns the ECM jammers up to 11*
Posted by: Anna Puma at February 21, 2023 06:00 PM

It's "EA" now. "Electromagnetic Attack". To go along with "ES" (ESM) and "EP" (ECCM). I'm sure some numbnuts somewhere got a Legion of Merit for that doctrinal change.

Posted by: Bert G at February 21, 2023 06:03 PM (aCgRi)

101 One thing we can cunt on about this story...the first report is always wrong.
Always.

Posted by: Diogenes at February 21, 2023 06:03 PM (anj39)

102 he exposed server was part of an internal mailbox system storing about three terabytes of internal military emails, many pertaining to U.S. Special Operations Command, or USSOCOM, the U.S. military unit tasked with conducting special military operations.
---
I can't see how this could possibly ever result in horrific catastrophe.../sarc

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at February 21, 2023 06:03 PM (BpYfr)

103 Good stuff, NGU. Try to stay sane for 8 months.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at February 21, 2023 06:01 PM (OJQUs)

trying. I hate my Admiral a little more every day. If he ever had an original thought in that pea brain of his,it would be awful lonely

Posted by: Nevergiveup at February 21, 2023 06:03 PM (EVR4i)

104 Its okay. They've restored the password now.

12345

"QWERTY" > "12345" > "asdf" > "password"

Posted by: Reuben Hick at February 21, 2023 06:04 PM (l7lsb)

105 Probably bullshit but interesting.

The British toddler Madeleine McCann disappeared 15 years ago. This Polish woman claims to be her.

https://bit.ly/3kglBr6

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Not a Real Simulation at February 21, 2023 06:04 PM (FVME7)

106 1. They claim this wasn't extremely sensitive data.
2. This was a gov't employee mis-configuring a server hosted on Azure. Azure has nothing to do with the configuration. If the gov't was hosting the server, the gov't employee would still have fucked it up the same way.
Posted by: bonhomme at February 21, 2023 06:00 PM (YYlyE)

It's usually pretty hard to "forget" to program a root password - they tend to insist you use one. And it would be easy to spot check that as part of the configuration process with a program that tries to log in

Posted by: Oldcat at February 21, 2023 06:04 PM (eoQWY)

107 NGU

Time to put in the retirement paperwork?

==

First he slaps the Admiral, and then puts in paperwork.

Posted by: runner at February 21, 2023 06:04 PM (V13WU)

108 Wait, your Admiral is Joey Bidet?

Posted by: Anna Puma at February 21, 2023 06:04 PM (e/Ar7)

109 The border patrol seized 6 tons of Fentanyl in 2022.

6 tons.
Posted by: AlaBAMA at February 21, 2023 06:01 PM

I don't know much about that crap except that sounds like enough to wipe out NYC since like touching a pill can maim or kill you. Why are people taking this? I really don't know, is it like the ultimate high until it's not? This shit is Russian roulette.

Posted by: Minnfidel at February 21, 2023 06:05 PM (oE0yX)

110 If they leaked our PowerPoint slides, they'll be hearing from our attorneys. Intellectual Property, even if it's pseudo intellectual, must be respected!

Posted by: Beltway DIE Grifters at February 21, 2023 06:05 PM (8AONa)

111 One thing we can cunt on about this story...the first report is always wrong.
Always.

And the truth is always worse than the first report

Posted by: Reuben Hick at February 21, 2023 06:05 PM (l7lsb)

112 The British toddler Madeleine McCann disappeared 15 years ago. This Polish woman claims to be her.

The Anastasia Romanov gambit.

Posted by: Anna Puma at February 21, 2023 06:05 PM (e/Ar7)

113 ood stuff, NGU. Try to stay sane for 8 months.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at February 21, 2023 06:01 PM (OJQUs)

trying. I hate my Admiral a little more every day. If he ever had an original thought in that pea brain of his,it would be awful lonely
Posted by: Nevergiveup at February 21, 2023 06:03 PM (EVR4i)

That's why they used to send them out to sea by several thousand miles regularly.

Posted by: Oldcat at February 21, 2023 06:05 PM (eoQWY)

114 Willowed, but I have absolute proof that Taylor Lorenz is both middle aged and a fucking idiot: she used the term “global warming” in her stupid rant. She is both too old and too dumb to know that GW was replaced with “climate change” decades ago. She is still living out her 20s … in the 1990s …

Posted by: Elric Blade at February 21, 2023 06:05 PM (S63LR)

115 And the truth is always worse than the first report

Posted by: Reuben Hick at February 21, 2023 06:05 PM (l7lsb)

Unless the president is a Republican.

Posted by: ... at February 21, 2023 06:06 PM (BXxcV)

116 74 NGU

Time to put in the retirement paperwork?
Posted by: Anna Puma at February 21, 2023 05:56 PM (e/Ar7)

I am out in OCT. I will be 69. Hard to believe I made it this long. And yes it is TIME, before I go Postal on someone
Posted by: Nevergiveup at February 21, 2023 05:57 PM
The we'll see you in Corsicana.

Posted by: Eromero at February 21, 2023 06:06 PM (MF3yS)

117 The British toddler Madeleine McCann disappeared 15 years ago. This Polish woman claims to be her.

https://bit.ly/3kglBr6
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks

Sounds like a post-modern version of the Lindburgh baby.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at February 21, 2023 06:06 PM (XF9Gj)

118 I didn't do it

Posted by: Puddleglum at February 21, 2023 06:06 PM (Bl1w8)

119 HAHAHAHAH !

Posted by: "THE CLOUD" at February 21, 2023 06:06 PM (V13WU)

120
The border patrol seized 6 tons of Fentanyl in 2022.

6 tons.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at February 21, 2023 06:01 PM

Heard something today on the radio, 'Three grains of sand.'

Apparently, Fentanyl is now so lethal that is the equivalent dose to kill someone.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at February 21, 2023 06:06 PM (enJYY)

121 > I've been bitching about the dumbassery of of DoD using cloud servers for years. But they'll still keep doing it, because the dumbasses that make the decision to use them are dumbasses.

I'm confused why so many people are focusing on "the cloud" aspect of this. If DoD were hosting the server on their own machines and the exact same dumbass DoD employee misconfigured the server, the exact same thing would have happened. This vulnerability wasn't the result of an Azure employee or contractor's actions.

Posted by: bonhomme at February 21, 2023 06:06 PM (eyxn4)

122 Hey don't worry, it's SOCOM. I'm sure everyone is in compliance with DoD email policy.

Posted by: Marcus T at February 21, 2023 06:06 PM (8Voqu)

123 12345
Posted by: ... at February 21, 2023 06:02 PM (BXxcV)

—————

Joke’s on you, you left off the 6!

Posted by: Duke Lowell at February 21, 2023 06:06 PM (u73oe)

124 I think 6 tons of fentanyl could wipe out the eastern seaboard.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at February 21, 2023 06:07 PM (OJQUs)

125 Wait, your Admiral is Joey Bidet?
Posted by: Anna Puma at February 21, 2023 06:04 PM (e/Ar7)

Worse, he is chinese. I kid you not

Posted by: Nevergiveup at February 21, 2023 06:07 PM (EVR4i)

126 The Border Patrol needs to ship that 6 tons to DC for a proper burning...

Posted by: Anna Puma at February 21, 2023 06:07 PM (e/Ar7)

127 These "outsourced" entities also had managerial control over enterprise email. Meaning, they dictated the framework you would have to work within. Yes... you can archive email to your local system. Provided it's done within a prescribed window. Yes... you can stamp something sensitive and pray it doesn't end up on some shitbird's screen. Yes they support 24x7x365 availability, except when it doesn't suit their particular situation with *cough* some other country.

I saw, and dealt with this weekly.

China was the biggest exploiter of this. Followed by everyone else.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at February 21, 2023 06:07 PM (Q4IgG)

128 Probably bullshit but interesting.

The British toddler Madeleine McCann disappeared 15 years ago. This Polish woman claims to be her.

https://bit.ly/3kglBr6
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Not a Real Simulation at February 21, 2023 06:04 PM (FVME7)

The woman is 21. Last I checked, 3 plus 15 was not 21.

Posted by: Oldcat at February 21, 2023 06:07 PM (eoQWY)

129 This won't happen when they get bigger accommodations/office space. More room to do nothing.

Posted by: Ziba at February 21, 2023 06:07 PM (4h9M3)

130 Why are people taking this? I really don't know, is it like the ultimate high until it's not? This shit is Russian roulette.

Posted by: Minnfidel at February 21, 2023 06:05 PM (oE0yX)

It has medical uses, but it is also easy to make and very powerful, so of course it is abused.

However, apparently it is nonsense that it is uniquely dangerous...a lot of the reported exposures among cops and EMTs have been debunked.

That being said, I was given fentanyl before I had two wisdom teeth removed, and it sucked. It felt awful!

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at February 21, 2023 06:08 PM (XIJ/X)

131 Admiral Wei Show Ping?

Posted by: Anna Puma at February 21, 2023 06:08 PM (e/Ar7)

132 >>Report: An Unsecured Department of Defense Server Has Been Spilling Terabytes of Sensitive Military Emails and Information Out Into the Ether For Weeks

You can't stop the signal Mal!

--
Mr. Universe

Posted by: Thomas Bender at February 21, 2023 06:08 PM (up/3i)

133 The we'll see you in Corsicana.
Posted by: Eromero at February 21, 2023 06:06 PM (MF3yS)

The Texas meet up? I sure hope so

Posted by: Nevergiveup at February 21, 2023 06:08 PM (EVR4i)

134 6 tons of fentanyl? That's like, two weeks, man.

Posted by: Hunter at February 21, 2023 06:09 PM (SYTee)

135 trying. I hate my Admiral a little more every day. If he ever had an original thought in that pea brain of his,it would be awful lonely
Posted by: Nevergiveup at February 21, 2023 06:03 PM (EVR4i)
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Whereas my daughter worked for an admiral she referred to as a "good idea" fairy in that his ideas were so good they would just naturally work.

Posted by: Blake - semi lurker at large at February 21, 2023 06:09 PM (2YtOq)

136 Fun Fact:

Oak Island is composed entirely of shafts and bits of wood.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at February 21, 2023 06:09 PM (up/3i)

137 Why are people taking this? I really don't know, is it like the ultimate high until it's not? This shit is Russian roulette.
Posted by: Minnfidel at February 21, 2023 06:05 PM (oE0yX)

Just a few years ago, when I left a job with a high rate of drug users, the heroin addicts were complaining they couldn't find heroin on the streets. It was only fentanyl, and they didn't like it. Now, nobody reports being heroin addicts. They're all fentanyl addicts, and they act like they like it.

I don't know what changed, but I believe governments are actively making it more palatable for users. Ours and china's and Mexico's.

Posted by: BurtTC at February 21, 2023 06:10 PM (7y7ic)

138 The gorilla no one has mentioned is, how did someone from the civilian Internet get through all the DISA firewalls to find the server?

Or was the server actually out in the wild and not really on the .mil network?

Posted by: Anna Puma at February 21, 2023 06:10 PM (e/Ar7)

139 136 Fun Fact:

Oak Island is composed entirely of shafts and bits of wood.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at February 21, 2023 06:09 PM (up/3i

Well duh. It's right there in the name.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at February 21, 2023 06:10 PM (mZ3xv)

140 > It's usually pretty hard to "forget" to program a root password - they tend to insist you use one. And it would be easy to spot check that as part of the configuration process with a program that tries to log in

It really depends on how the server is deployed. Many windows servers are deployed via powershell scripts. If some idiot forgot a script parameter, or more likely copied and pasted a command line incorrectly, it's actually dead simple to do this.

Posted by: bonhomme at February 21, 2023 06:10 PM (eyxn4)

141 I'm confused why so many people are focusing on "the cloud" aspect of this. If DoD were hosting the server on their own machines and the exact same dumbass DoD employee misconfigured the server, the exact same thing would have happened. This vulnerability wasn't the result of an Azure employee or contractor's actions.
Posted by: bonhomme at February 21, 2023 06:06 PM

True, but IMO it adds an unnecessary bureaucratic layer. I'm very much pro-local server.

Posted by: Bert G at February 21, 2023 06:10 PM (aCgRi)

142 109 The border patrol seized 6 tons of Fentanyl in 2022.

6 tons.
Posted by: AlaBAMA at February 21, 2023 06:01 PM

I don't know much about that crap except that sounds like enough to wipe out NYC since like touching a pill can maim or kill you. Why are people taking this? I really don't know, is it like the ultimate high until it's not? This shit is Russian roulette.
Posted by: Minnfidel at February 21, 2023 06:05 PM (oE0yX)

My understanding is that it's cut into other drugs and people don't try to get intentionally hooked on it.

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at February 21, 2023 06:10 PM (eYoxG)

143 I'm confused why so many people are focusing on "the cloud" aspect of this. If DoD were hosting the server on their own machines and the exact same dumbass DoD employee misconfigured the server, the exact same thing would have happened. This vulnerability wasn't the result of an Azure employee or contractor's actions.
Posted by: bonhomme at February 21, 2023 06:06 PM (eyxn4)

Azure is an insecure platform. We worked very, very closely with Azure developers are my last job just to get basic SOX compliance levels, let along military security needs.

Storing sensitive information in the cloud is a very bad idea.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo, food, water at February 21, 2023 06:10 PM (/6ur0)

144 The border patrol seized 6 tons of Fentanyl in 2022.

6 tons.

Darwin could really find a use for all of that.

Posted by: Reuben Hick at February 21, 2023 06:11 PM (l7lsb)

145 *at my last job

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo, food, water at February 21, 2023 06:11 PM (/6ur0)

146 136 Fun Fact:

Oak Island is composed entirely of shafts and bits of wood.
Posted by: Thomas Bender
_________

Will it tip over?

Posted by: Rep. Hank Johnson at February 21, 2023 06:11 PM (gf7Ez)

147 ...what I wouldn't give for an 'edit post' feature....PIXY

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo, food, water at February 21, 2023 06:11 PM (/6ur0)

148 I can honestly say that in my entire career I only had one boss (retired as a two star) who was a jackass. He was smart enough but was clearly looking out for #1.
The rest were good men (and one woman).

Posted by: Diogenes at February 21, 2023 06:11 PM (anj39)

149 I'm confused why so many people are focusing on "the cloud" aspect of this. If DoD were hosting the server on their own machines and the exact same dumbass DoD employee misconfigured the server, the exact same thing would have happened. This vulnerability wasn't the result of an Azure employee or contractor's actions.
Posted by: bonhomme at February 21, 2023 06:06 PM (eyxn4)

Cloud just adds the fact that someone could find the physical location and get the data without you being in charge of security there.

Posted by: Oldcat at February 21, 2023 06:11 PM (eoQWY)

150 hiya

Posted by: JT at February 21, 2023 06:11 PM (T4tVD)

151 Whereas my daughter worked for an admiral she referred to as a "good idea" fairy in that his ideas were so good they would just naturally work.
Posted by: Blake - semi lurker at large at February 21, 2023 06:09 PM (2YtOq)

There are some good ones. Or someone like me putting those ideas in his head. And yes he has stolen my work and passed it off as his own

Posted by: Nevergiveup at February 21, 2023 06:11 PM (EVR4i)

152 A drug addled society is a compliant society.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at February 21, 2023 06:11 PM (mZ3xv)

153 The gorilla no one has mentioned is, how did someone from the civilian Internet get through all the DISA firewalls to find the server?

===

flash drive....inside job

Posted by: runner at February 21, 2023 06:12 PM (V13WU)

154 There is now DNA to solve any personal connections

Posted by: Skip at February 21, 2023 06:12 PM (xhxe8)

155 Oak Island is composed entirely of shafts and bits of wood.

So are Mayor Pete's vacations

Posted by: Halfhand at February 21, 2023 06:12 PM (vJSFc)

156 136 Fun Fact:

Oak Island is composed entirely of shafts and bits of wood.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at February 21, 2023 06:09 PM (up/3i)

Also true of Randy West

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo, food, water at February 21, 2023 06:12 PM (/6ur0)

157 Good thing is was mostly just SOCOM and not shit that really should be kept secret like the Condom of the Day.

Posted by: Meade Lux Lewis, Domestic Terrorist at February 21, 2023 06:12 PM (sWM8x)

158 Fentanyl is basically just an opiate, like morphine or heroin.

The thing is, it can be up to 100 times more potent than morphine, so it doesn't take much to kill you.

The reason smugglers like it is due to the basic fact that smuggling 1/100 of n pounds is a lot easier than smuggling n pounds.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at February 21, 2023 06:12 PM (bW8dp)

159 Apparently, Fentanyl is now so lethal that is the equivalent dose to kill someone.
Posted by: Divide by Zero at February 21, 2023 06:06 PM (enJYY)

I buy a lot of sand. 6 tons is about 4 foot x 4 foot x 6 foot. Around 3 cubic yards.

That's a lot of grains of sand.

Posted by: Reforger at February 21, 2023 06:13 PM (075tX)

160 > Oak Island is composed entirely of shafts and bits of wood.

So is Kamala Harris's head.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at February 21, 2023 06:13 PM (bW8dp)

161 DoD: Department of Dumbasses or

Dumbassery on Demand ?

Posted by: Ziba at February 21, 2023 06:13 PM (4h9M3)

162 With Lloyd Austin in charge - Department of Dunces.

Posted by: Anna Puma at February 21, 2023 06:13 PM (e/Ar7)

163 6 tons of fentanyl can kill everyone in the United States 8 times over.

2mg can be a lethal dose. About 28,000 mg in an ounce and 32,000 ounces in a ton.

I'd say do the math but this is aos.

Posted by: polynikes at February 21, 2023 06:13 PM (9xBUc)

164 DoD: Department of Dumbasses or

Dumbassery on Demand ?
Posted by: Ziba at February 21, 2023 06:13 PM

Heh. I have a buddy that used to work for Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA). He used to say they "put the DISA in DISAppointment".

Posted by: Bert G at February 21, 2023 06:15 PM (aCgRi)

165 Also true of Randy West
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo, food, water at February 21, 2023 06:12 PM (/6ur0)

Man you're old😀

Apparently me too

Posted by: polynikes at February 21, 2023 06:15 PM (9xBUc)

166 6 tons of fentanyl... That's just one shipment?

Posted by: davidt at February 21, 2023 06:15 PM (SYTee)

167 DOD Server administrator Dang Fang Gung How, an exchange soldier from the PLA says "Oops".

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy, Set the Earth to fire and reshape it closer to the heart's desire at February 21, 2023 06:16 PM (DK4U1)

168 165 Also true of Randy West
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo, food, water at February 21, 2023 06:12 PM (/6ur0)

Man you're old😀

Apparently me too
Posted by: polynikes at February 21, 2023 06:15 PM (9xBUc)

Yeah....53 in a month. I remember the Before Times.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo, food, water at February 21, 2023 06:16 PM (/6ur0)

169 121 > I've been bitching about the dumbassery of of DoD using cloud servers for years. But they'll still keep doing it, because the dumbasses that make the decision to use them are dumbasses.

I'm confused why so many people are focusing on "the cloud" aspect of this. If DoD were hosting the server on their own machines and the exact same dumbass DoD employee misconfigured the server, the exact same thing would have happened. This vulnerability wasn't the result of an Azure employee or contractor's actions.
Posted by: bonhomme at February 21, 2023 06:06 PM (eyxn4)
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The risk of exposure to the internet from misconfiguration would certainly be less, if it wasn't on an internet connected network to begin with.

Posted by: Woke Explosive Ordnance Disposal Team at February 21, 2023 06:16 PM (ssESX)

170 @156

>>Also true of Randy West

Randy West was no Harry Reams or Tom Byron, that's for damn sure.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at February 21, 2023 06:16 PM (up/3i)

171 Oak Island is composed entirely of shafts and bits of wood.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at February 21, 2023 06:09 PM (up/3i)

——————

And holes.

Posted by: Duke Lowell at February 21, 2023 06:17 PM (u73oe)

172 They never should have gotten rid of PROFS.

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at February 21, 2023 06:17 PM (yQpMk)

173 166 6 tons of fentanyl... That's just one shipment?
Posted by: davidt at February 21, 2023 06:15 PM (SYTee)

If we were a serious people we'd declare war on any country producing this garbage and cruise missile all the production sites.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at February 21, 2023 06:17 PM (mZ3xv)

174 I bet that server admin could name all 3258 genders.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy, Set the Earth to fire and reshape it closer to the heart's desire at February 21, 2023 06:17 PM (DK4U1)

175 Anurag Sen, a good-faith security researcher known for discovering sensitive data that has been inadvertently published online, found the exposed server over the weekend and provided details to TechCrunch so we could alert the U.S. government.

***

"inadvertently"

Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at February 21, 2023 06:17 PM (Xlnez)

176 > I'm confused why so many people are focusing on "the cloud" aspect of this. If DoD were hosting the server on their own machines and the exact same dumbass DoD employee misconfigured the server, the exact same thing would have happened.
________
Probably not. If (IF) everything is behind FedGov managed IT infrastructure this sort of thing "shouldn't" happen.

Separation of duties.... the dude/dudette who configs your servers isn't the one who configs the switch gear, who isn't the one who configs the routers... etc.

In "MY" It shops this was never, ever an issue.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at February 21, 2023 06:18 PM (Q4IgG)

177 > Azure is an insecure platform.

All platforms that aren't air gapped are insecure. Even those have physical security issues.

> We worked very, very closely with Azure developers are my last job just to get basic SOX compliance levels, let along military security needs.

I wouldn't trust any platform, including bare metal chips, to be secure. They all have security holes.

Posted by: bonhomme at February 21, 2023 06:18 PM (eyxn4)

178 Legion of Merit and aced their FITREP I bet

Posted by: Anna Puma at February 21, 2023 06:18 PM (e/Ar7)

179 6 tons? kg tons? That is, what, 6000kg? I give 100 microgram doses.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy, Set the Earth to fire and reshape it closer to the heart's desire at February 21, 2023 06:18 PM (DK4U1)

180 Never assume things happen due to incompetence

Posted by: Skip at February 21, 2023 06:18 PM (xhxe8)

181 Fentanyl should only be prescribed for end stage cancer pain or any similar level of pain.

I had WC doctors prescribing it like candy for back pain until the WC commission put it on the non allowed list.

Posted by: polynikes at February 21, 2023 06:19 PM (9xBUc)

182 >>Also true of Randy West

Randy West was no Harry Reams or Tom Byron, that's for damn sure.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at February 21, 2023 06:16 PM (up/3i)

Harry had his charms but Tom Byron went through that nipple ring phase....ugh.

He may not have been the biggest woodsman but I respect the hell out of John Leslie. The man was a good director too.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo, food, water at February 21, 2023 06:19 PM (/6ur0)

183 The border patrol seized 6 tons of Fentanyl in 2022.

6 tons.
Posted by: AlaBAMA

The Whoopi Goldberg of busts.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Not a Real Simulation at February 21, 2023 06:19 PM (FVME7)

184 My understanding is that it's cut into other drugs and people don't try to get intentionally hooked on it.
Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at February 21, 2023 06:10 PM (eYoxG)

Ah, got it, thanks. the cartels are killing their customers. I mean, not that they care.

Posted by: Minnfidel at February 21, 2023 06:19 PM (oE0yX)

185 No they weren't. I'd put money on it.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo, food, water at February 21, 2023 05:44 PM (/6ur0)

Sure they are physically separated. See, they are in a different rack completely! - Microsoft employee hired for s/he/it/zir pronouns and facial piercing geometry

Now whether they shared the backbone? I'm sure they did. Meaning it was as secure as Hillary's bathroom server.

Posted by: AZ Hi Desert (Gringo fuertemente armado-Tempus belli) at February 21, 2023 06:19 PM (l7Kbv)

186
2mg can be a lethal dose.
Posted by: polynikes at February 21, 2023 06:13 PM

So if I take a 100 mg Viagra pill, cut it into quarters, I'm now down to 25 mg, and I have to cut that down into 1/10th or less - or die?

Think I'll stick with boner pills.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at February 21, 2023 06:20 PM (enJYY)

187 That is like 60 million doses. Or enough for Fat Tuesday.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy, Set the Earth to fire and reshape it closer to the heart's desire at February 21, 2023 06:20 PM (DK4U1)

188 > The risk of exposure to the internet from misconfiguration would certainly be less, if it wasn't on an internet connected network to begin with.

Sure. Though I do note from the article they claim the exposed info wasn't so secure that it was supposed to be kept on an air gapped system.

Posted by: bonhomme at February 21, 2023 06:20 PM (eyxn4)

189 I bet that server admin could name all 3258 genders.
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy, Set the Earth to fire and reshape it closer to the heart's desire at February 21, 2023 06:17 PM

OMG! It's 3259 you effing hater!

Posted by: Minnfidel at February 21, 2023 06:20 PM (oE0yX)

190 It's all a process.

From humans and their behaviors, to firewalls, to micro segmentation of networks, to IDS/IPS, encryption in flight and at rest, air gap, physical cages, and more.

It all has to work together and even then it's still gonna get attacked.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at February 21, 2023 06:21 PM (mZ3xv)

191 > Fentanyl should only be prescribed for end stage cancer pain or any similar level of pain.

A (sadly) late friend got fentanyl lollipops for end-stage cancer. Pretty much the only thing that worked for him by then.

So I'd sure hate for it to be banned outright, like heroin is (heroin is widely prescribed in other countries, with similar restrictions as morphine and other opiates here).

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at February 21, 2023 06:21 PM (bW8dp)

192 @182

>>He may not have been the biggest woodsman but I respect the hell out of John Leslie. The man was a good director too.

** Signing **

Mr. we could use a man like Rocco Siffredi again...

Posted by: Thomas Bender at February 21, 2023 06:21 PM (up/3i)

193
Why are people taking this? I really don't know, is it like the ultimate high until it's not?

Evidently. We're living Robocop 2

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at February 21, 2023 06:21 PM (63Dwl)

194 OK, so 1) DoD "customers" and 2) U.S. Special Operations Command

Ukraine ?

Posted by: runner at February 21, 2023 06:21 PM (V13WU)

195 They never should have gotten rid of PROFS.

Posted by: G'rump928(c

======

Now there's a blast from the past

Posted by: 2009Refugee at February 21, 2023 06:21 PM (8AONa)

196 Sure. Though I do note from the article they claim the exposed info wasn't so secure that it was supposed to be kept on an air gapped system.

I'm not sure how an air-gapped email server is supposed to work.

Posted by: Reuben Hick at February 21, 2023 06:22 PM (l7lsb)

197 183 The border patrol seized 6 tons of Fentanyl in 2022.

6 tons.
Posted by: AlaBAMA

The Whoopi Goldberg of busts.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Not a Real Simulation at February 21, 2023 06:19 PM (FVME7)

I was cracking up this morning!

Posted by: AlaBAMA at February 21, 2023 06:22 PM (mZ3xv)

198 I mean , who are DoD customers ? Seriously, do they have a merch site for fans or something ??

Posted by: runner at February 21, 2023 06:22 PM (V13WU)

199 I know the person who invented Cloud Computing. He is not an idiot, and his method of doing it was secure.

The people who write code to implement his invention are the usual lot of idiots, buffoons and clowns, who have been hired by people who make them look like geniuses, and managed by people who make the employers who did the hiring, look like demi-gods.

This is why Cloud computing is riddled with security gaffes.

Posted by: An Observation sez China Joe not my president at February 21, 2023 06:23 PM (CecP5)

200 So I'd sure hate for it to be banned outright...

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at February 21, 2023 06:21 PM (bW8dp)

Fentanyl is a useful drug, so I hope it isn't banned. But we are profoundly stupid when it comes to opiates, so I wouldn't put it past the brain trusts at the FDA and DEA to try to ban it in this country.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at February 21, 2023 06:23 PM (XIJ/X)

201 Posted by: Divide by Zero at February 21, 2023 06:20 PM (enJYY

I think the max cialis is 20mg. Size doesn't matter 😃

Posted by: polynikes at February 21, 2023 06:23 PM (9xBUc)

202 Sure they are physically separated. See, they are in a different rack completely! - Microsoft employee hired for s/he/it/zir pronouns and facial piercing geometry

Now whether they shared the backbone? I'm sure they did. Meaning it was as secure as Hillary's bathroom server.

Reading between the lines, that's exactly what they're saying. The servers weren't co-located on the same physical machines as other Azure customers servers. That's almost certainly what DoD paid for and what DoD got.

Even so, if you allow your customer to set up and configure their servers, their idiot employees are going to fuck things up. That's exactly what happened here. A DoD employee misconfigured a server they were tasked with managing.

Posted by: bonhomme at February 21, 2023 06:23 PM (eyxn4)

203 Fentanyl is so powerful that just-

saying the word "Fentanyl" real fast three times is enough to give you an overdose!

Posted by: naturalfake at February 21, 2023 06:23 PM (KLPy8)

204 Sure. Though I do note from the article they claim the exposed info wasn't so secure that it was supposed to be kept on an air gapped system.

I'm not sure how an air-gapped email server is supposed to work.
Posted by: Reuben Hick at February 21, 2023 06:22 PM (l7lsb)

Well in the old days your terminal had a wire going to the server.

Posted by: Oldcat at February 21, 2023 06:23 PM (eoQWY)

205 @177 the weakest link will always be the poorly trained, or just plain dumb, staffers with access to these systems.

Posted by: Woke Explosive Ordnance Disposal Team at February 21, 2023 06:23 PM (ssESX)

206 > I mean , who are DoD customers ?

Probably more contractors selling shit to DoD than DoD selling their own services.

There have been some pretty cool science fiction stories about the latter situation, though.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at February 21, 2023 06:24 PM (bW8dp)

207 We'll never see normal again.

Posted by: Electric Funeral at February 21, 2023 06:24 PM (eIMDo)

208 Person who invented Cloud Computing ??? no one person invented it, it's been around forever. Just under different names. those who disagree, are welcome to correct me...

Posted by: runner at February 21, 2023 06:24 PM (V13WU)

209 Cloud computing isn't an invention.

Citrix was hosting applications some time ago. It's always been a product of remote access to servers.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at February 21, 2023 06:24 PM (mZ3xv)

210
I saw Max Cialis open for the Dickies at the Cow Palace in '83.

Posted by: naturalfake at February 21, 2023 06:24 PM (KLPy8)

211 Reading between the lines, that's exactly what they're saying. The servers weren't co-located on the same physical machines as other Azure customers servers. That's almost certainly what DoD paid for and what DoD got.

Even so, if you allow your customer to set up and configure their servers, their idiot employees are going to fuck things up. That's exactly what happened here. A DoD employee misconfigured a server they were tasked with managing.
Posted by: bonhomme at February 21, 2023 06:23 PM (eyxn4)

Might even mean the location of their server is in a more secure location that the garden variety...but how much more secure?

Posted by: Oldcat at February 21, 2023 06:25 PM (eoQWY)

212 The good idea fairy is a fairy that comes along when the project is already half built and over budget and decides it would be great to go in a completely different direction.

Posted by: TexasDan at February 21, 2023 06:25 PM (5MWYB)

213 199 I know the person who invented Cloud Computing. He is not an idiot, and his method of doing it was secure.

The people who write code to implement his invention are the usual lot of idiots, buffoons and clowns, who have been hired by people who make them look like geniuses, and managed by people who make the employers who did the hiring, look like demi-gods.

This is why Cloud computing is riddled with security gaffes.
Posted by: An Observation sez China Joe not my president at February 21, 2023 06:23 PM (CecP5)
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"Cloud computing" began as a marketing term -- it's not a technical invention per se, because it already existed as ASPs.

Posted by: Woke Explosive Ordnance Disposal Team at February 21, 2023 06:25 PM (ssESX)

214 "the weakest link will always be the poorly trained, or just plain dumb, staffers with access to these systems.
Posted by: Woke Explosive Ordnance Disposal Team"

Or the Chinese spies on staff.

Posted by: Joe Biteum at February 21, 2023 06:26 PM (iayUP)

215 @136 and hinges, they found a hinge. Clearly Archimedes was on Oak Island

Posted by: Smell the Glove at February 21, 2023 06:26 PM (3XQTX)

216 The Megyn Kelly Show@MegynKellyShow
"Don Lemon's re-education camp is a farce. It's a lie and we know it. And for them to continue tolerating it makes them part of the problem."

-
Tee Ball Don will get a few extra strikes before he's out.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Not a Real Simulation at February 21, 2023 06:26 PM (FVME7)

217 I had liquid fentynal (sp) after hospice kicked him out and we brought him home. Thankfully only 4 days. I kept the fentynal up every few hours. As long as he didn't sqirm I figured he was pain free.

Posted by: Infidel at February 21, 2023 06:27 PM (tITEI)

218
I think the max cialis is 20mg. Size doesn't matter 😃

Posted by: polynikes at February 21, 2023 06:23 PM

That's NOT what she said last night. :~)

Oh, to be back in the 70's where every response could be summed up by 'what she said last night'.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at February 21, 2023 06:27 PM (enJYY)

219 Chuck Norris would have to take two 20mg Fentanyl tablets if he has a headache for it to work.
But they don't know for sure if it would be enough because he's never had a headache.

Posted by: polynikes at February 21, 2023 06:28 PM (9xBUc)

220 Fentanyl is a useful drug, so I hope it isn't banned. But we are profoundly stupid when it comes to opiates, so I wouldn't put it past the brain trusts at the FDA and DEA to try to ban it in this country.

A senior analyst, specialty pharma, Mizuho Securities estimated that the FUSA consumes 80% of the global opioid supply while constituting only 5% of the global population. Adding in Canada and Western Europe, that percentage of opiate usage increases to 95% of the global opioid supply.

I blame White Supremacy

Posted by: Reuben Hick at February 21, 2023 06:28 PM (l7lsb)

221 Oh, that was dad.

Posted by: Infidel at February 21, 2023 06:28 PM (tITEI)

222 According to the DEA, 2 mg of pure fentanyl is a lethal dose. There are roughly 450K milligrams in a pound so one pound could potentially kill 225K people. Six tons could kill 2.7 billion people.

Posted by: Duke Lowell at February 21, 2023 06:28 PM (u73oe)

223 The ChiComs just moved to the next server.

Posted by: Jak Sucio at February 21, 2023 06:29 PM (jvt6t)

224 I invented Cloud Computing. In my spare time. While riding Amtrak.

Posted by: Honest Joe Biden at February 21, 2023 06:29 PM (SYTee)

225 Max Cialis used to play second chair trumpet for Guy Lombardo and the Royal Canadians, if I'm not mistaken.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at February 21, 2023 06:29 PM (bW8dp)

226 Winter Storm Olive. That's right, Olive.

Posted by: runner at February 21, 2023 06:29 PM (V13WU)

227 > Six tons could kill 2.7 billion people.
Posted by: Duke Lowell at February 21, 2023 06:28 PM (u73oe)

Or possibly even one Keith Richards.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at February 21, 2023 06:29 PM (bW8dp)

228 https://tinyurl.com/4xsyhd3s
20 Tweets from Bad Blue

Lots of good stuff, didn't even get through all of it.
#8 is bizarre, but that's I suspect what they have done to Blacks who are taught they are owed something.

Posted by: Skip at February 21, 2023 06:30 PM (xhxe8)

229 I invented Cloud computing.

Posted by: Cloud William at February 21, 2023 06:30 PM (63Dwl)

230 > I'm not sure how an air-gapped email server is supposed to work.

It could be an internal email server used to deliver emails within a closed loop. I'm sure that's not what you meant though. I'm simply responding to comments on the thread and I understand perfectly well that not all .mil systems need to be air-gapped and run on fully code inspected BSD systems.

Posted by: bonhomme at February 21, 2023 06:30 PM (eyxn4)

231 I'm sorry, infidel, and glad your father was able to pass without pain.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at February 21, 2023 06:30 PM (bW8dp)

232 @222

>>Six tons could kill 2.7 billion people.

You don't say.

--
Malthusian's, Trying to Fix That Glitch.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at February 21, 2023 06:30 PM (up/3i)

233 Mr. we could use a man like Rocco Siffredi again...
Posted by: Thomas Bender at February 21, 2023 06:21 PM (up/3i)

That dude had issues.

Posted by: polynikes at February 21, 2023 06:31 PM (9xBUc)

234 I'm sorry, infidel, and glad your father was able to pass without pain.
Posted by: Rodrigo

Thank you. I am too.

Posted by: Infidel at February 21, 2023 06:31 PM (tITEI)

235 I think they should use German names for winter storms. Winter storm Heinrich.

Posted by: runner at February 21, 2023 06:31 PM (V13WU)

236 "Winter Storm Olive. That's right, Olive.
Posted by: runner"

Well blow me down.

Posted by: Popeye at February 21, 2023 06:31 PM (iayUP)

237 2mg can be a lethal dose.
Posted by: polynikes

...

Working on a new power plant. The mayor of this town cornered one of our engineers and asked if the treatment system would remove fentanyl.

Which, no it will not. So someone tried to do the math to get to 2mg in some volume, 12 oz or something, that a person might drink. The figured out that 16 pounds of fentanyl in a certain pretty large tank would give you that concentration, and the water would go out that way.

Water plants are sorta secure and I imagine not a lot of people have 16 pounds of fentanyl or want to toss it out. But some intakes are in rivers and places where traffickers might decide to unload their goods if the cops are closing in.

Posted by: TexasDan at February 21, 2023 06:32 PM (j9s4B)

238 True story, Martin Luther King and I thought of cloud computers during a march in Memphis. Corn Pop had nothin! Don't jump!

Posted by: Shuffling Zombie Biden at February 21, 2023 06:32 PM (ssESX)

239
Yeah....53 in a month. I remember the Before Times.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo, food, water at February 21, 2023 06:16 PM (/6ur0)

So do I but mine sucked. Although, being a young guy in 2023 would be an even greater hell, from what I've been seeing.

And you have email.

Posted by: Insomniac at February 21, 2023 06:32 PM (II3Gr)

240 McCloud!

Posted by: Grouchy Police Captain at February 21, 2023 06:32 PM (UQUAY)

241 Winter storm Walter.

Posted by: runner at February 21, 2023 06:32 PM (V13WU)

242 > Might even mean the location of their server is in a more secure location that the garden variety...but how much more secure?

At one point Azure was talking about selling a cloud in a box sort of solution where they set up all of the hardware and dropped it off for the customer to fully manage in every way. I don't think they ever actually fielded this product, though.

Posted by: bonhomme at February 21, 2023 06:32 PM (eyxn4)

243 Six tons could kill 2.7 billion people.
Posted by: Duke Lowell

James Cameron says Thanos got it right—half of humanity ought to be wiped out

https://bit.ly/3Ep6bHN

-
So it's all good.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Not a Real Simulation at February 21, 2023 06:33 PM (FVME7)

244 > 235 I think they should use German names for winter storms. Winter storm Heinrich.

Or maybe Russian. General Winter has won more battles for Russia than any of their human generals ever did.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at February 21, 2023 06:33 PM (bW8dp)

245 Zelenski is walking holding Sundowner's hand

Head FBI woman in Philadelphia killed a woman's dog in Rittenhouse Square

Posted by: Skip at February 21, 2023 06:33 PM (xhxe8)

246 230 > I'm not sure how an air-gapped email server is supposed to work.

This is about me, isn't it?

Posted by: Chinese Spy Balloon at February 21, 2023 06:34 PM (DsA2n)

247 @233

>>That dude had issues.

WORD!!!
--
Nacho Vidal Tripping on Ayahuasca and Toad Venom, but mostly Toad Venom.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at February 21, 2023 06:34 PM (up/3i)

248 Winter storm Lamont. Big dummy thought winter was over.

Posted by: davidt at February 21, 2023 06:34 PM (SYTee)

249 Cloud computing is in fact an invention. It was not patented by the inventor. It did not exist in the early 80s or before. It was the result of a PhD dissertation in the late 80s or early 90s.

Posted by: An Observation sez China Joe not my president at February 21, 2023 06:34 PM (CecP5)

250 Is Joe on his way back yet or is he still embarrassing us overseas ?

Posted by: It's me donna at February 21, 2023 06:35 PM (bs+z0)

251 New water plant. Not power.

Posted by: TexasDan at February 21, 2023 06:35 PM (ycpOs)

252 Many corporate office networks used to be connected to each other directly before using the internet as a backbone became commonplace. Obviously most universities had already been connected to each other by internet since the days of arpanet, but that was the point, free exchange of information, including research they saw fit to share, and emails.

Posted by: Shuffling Zombie Biden at February 21, 2023 06:35 PM (ssESX)

253 Oddly, in some weird, fucked up way, this actually makes Hillary look smart for keeping her shit on a private server.
Posted by: AlaBAMA at February 21, 2023 05:57 PM (mZ3xv)

Good thing that server was in the bathroom towel closet.

Posted by: mrp at February 21, 2023 06:35 PM (rj6Yv)

254 "Winter Storm Olive. That's right, Olive.
Posted by: runner"

Well blow me down.
Posted by: Popeye at February 21, 2023 06:31 PM (iayUP)

One word, folks. Weather Nation. They report the weather. And do not name winter squalls. Nor do they do those tedious filler shows for hours on end. Available on PlutoTV and other streaming thingies.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Prepping for Lent at February 21, 2023 06:35 PM (UQUAY)

255 Speaking of genocide, 20 minute video about Funny Mustache in WWI. Bottom line, he was a good, brave, and lucky soldier.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=KJQQnm-WEFc

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Not a Real Simulation at February 21, 2023 06:35 PM (FVME7)

256 Water plants are sorta secure and I imagine not a lot of people have 16 pounds of fentanyl or want to toss it out.

All you need is a badge, State sized budget and legal access to six tons of fentanyl.

I'm sure there are people who can fit that description.

Posted by: Reuben Hick at February 21, 2023 06:36 PM (l7lsb)

257 /sock#1 off

Posted by: Woke Explosive Ordnance Disposal Team at February 21, 2023 06:36 PM (ssESX)

258 James Cameron says Thanos got it right—half of humanity ought to be wiped out

https://bit.ly/3Ep6bHN

-
So it's all good.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Not a Real Simulation at February 21, 2023 06:33 PM (FVME7)

Sure thing James, I'll just pencil in you and your family as the first volunteers to off themselves.

Posted by: Beartooth at February 21, 2023 06:36 PM (N52dd)

259 Dopey Joe just claimed "All across my country... Ukrainian flags fly from American homes!"

Anyone here ever see one? I haven't.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at February 21, 2023 06:37 PM (bW8dp)

260 New water plant. Not power.

It was obvious to everyone here. We all know that no one is allowed to build a power plant, just install windmills and solar panels.

Posted by: Reuben Hick at February 21, 2023 06:37 PM (l7lsb)

261 Head FBI woman in Philadelphia killed a woman's dog in Rittenhouse Square

Just to watch him die.

Posted by: Commissar of Plenty and Lysenko Solutions at February 21, 2023 06:37 PM (eFRsM)

262 There were several reported incidents where the Soviets were so careless with (then hard copy) secret documents that they wound up used as wrap for fish. I'm sure DEI will make it better over here, though.

Posted by: Trump poisoned my cat at February 21, 2023 06:37 PM (KSNKu)

263
There's a reservoir near me that supplies Phoenixville, PA. Haven't been able to canoe on it since 9/11/2001 or thereabouts.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at February 21, 2023 06:37 PM (enJYY)

264 259 Dopey Joe just claimed "All across my country... Ukrainian flags fly from American homes!"

Anyone here ever see one? I haven't.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at February 21, 2023 06:37 PM (bW8dp)

At first I did.. Not anymore

Posted by: It's me donna at February 21, 2023 06:37 PM (bs+z0)

265 > At first I did.. Not anymore
Posted by: It's me donna at February 21, 2023 06:37 PM (bs+z0)

Interesting. I don't recall ever seeing one here.

The only place I've seen them is in the Twitter profiles of mental retards.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at February 21, 2023 06:38 PM (bW8dp)

266 Anyone here ever see one? I haven't.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at February 21, 2023 06:37 PM (bW8dp)

Very few. And this is in a college town.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Prepping for Lent at February 21, 2023 06:39 PM (UQUAY)

267 The only people that are concerned about Ukraine exist in a bubble around Washington

Posted by: AlaBAMA at February 21, 2023 06:39 PM (mZ3xv)

268 Hahahahahaha!

*Takes breath*

Hahahahahaha!

What a bunch of dumb fucks.

I bet the password was "password" or "12345".

Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at February 21, 2023 06:39 PM (ufFY8)

269 Bottom line, he was a good, brave, and lucky soldier.

And a terrific dancer!

Posted by: Commissar of Plenty and Lysenko Solutions at February 21, 2023 06:39 PM (eFRsM)

270 "You know who else had a wide open server spilling secrets all over the internet for weeks?"

-- Hillary Clinton

Posted by: Sharkman at February 21, 2023 06:40 PM (cvLss)

271 Anyone here ever see one? I haven't.

*******

The only time I’ve seen Uke flags was when they were waving next to either Pride flags or BLM flags

I’m sure that’s wholly coincidental

Posted by: The Unmasked and Unvaxed Ranger at February 21, 2023 06:40 PM (VTu1l)

272 Dopey Joe just claimed "All across my country... Ukrainian flags fly from American homes!"

Anyone here ever see one? I haven't.
Posted by: Rodrigo

There was one in the hood. Now it seems to be crumpled up on the window sill.

Posted by: Infidel at February 21, 2023 06:40 PM (tITEI)

273 Rumor that ButtJizz has been ordered to "get his ass on a plane and get out to Ohio", before Trump gets any more free publicity.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at February 21, 2023 06:40 PM (bW8dp)

274 At one point Azure was talking about selling a cloud in a box sort of solution where they set up all of the hardware and dropped it off for the customer to fully manage in every way. I don't think they ever actually fielded this product, though.

Since much of the value of The Cloud is flexible use of hardware, a myriad of services that are kept up to date and maintained, backup services, reliability zones, five-nines of operational utility, billing services and physical security.

Posted by: Reuben Hick at February 21, 2023 06:41 PM (l7lsb)

275 266 Anyone here ever see one? I haven't.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at February 21, 2023 06:37 PM (bW8dp)

Very few. And this is in a college town.
Posted by: Pug Mahon, Prepping for Lent at February 21, 2023 06:39 PM (UQUAY)
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I certainly hope everyone with a Ukrainian flag in their twitter profile is proudly flying that flag.

Posted by: Woke Explosive Ordnance Disposal Team at February 21, 2023 06:41 PM (ssESX)

276 US Military is a fcking joke

Posted by: Ex-GOP at February 21, 2023 06:41 PM (Tc2CN)

277 Anyone here ever see one? I haven't.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at February 21, 2023 06:37 PM (bW8dp)

Saw a couple, both also had a rainbow flag flying next to it. These were near a local community college.

Posted by: Beartooth at February 21, 2023 06:41 PM (N52dd)

278 Nobody cares about Ukraine but the grifters in the Federal Government.

Posted by: fd at February 21, 2023 06:41 PM (iayUP)

279 There was one in the hood. Now it seems to be crumpled up on the window sill.

and filled with crusty spooge

Posted by: Reuben Hick at February 21, 2023 06:41 PM (l7lsb)

280 I bet the password was "password" or "12345".

Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at February 21, 2023 06:39 PM (ufFY

12345? I've got the same combination on my luggage!

Posted by: President Skroob at February 21, 2023 06:42 PM (PiwSw)

281 My understanding is that it's cut into other drugs and people don't try to get intentionally hooked on it.
Posted by: Red Turban Someguy

Particularly the ones doing uppers that aren't supposed to arrest breathing and other functions.

Posted by: SFGoth at February 21, 2023 06:42 PM (KAi1n)

282 > "Cloud computing" began as a marketing term -- it's not a technical invention per se, because it already existed as ASPs.

ASPs are to Cloud computing as the 1977 Mattel Classic Football handheld game is to PSPs.

ASPs are very specific applications running on a custom, dedicated machines. Cloud computing is a general computing networked resource distributed in any way the provider prefers.

Posted by: bonhomme at February 21, 2023 06:43 PM (eyxn4)

283 Does MeatHead fly a Uke flag?

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at February 21, 2023 06:43 PM (63Dwl)

284 12345

That's my password.

President Scroob

Posted by: DaveA at February 21, 2023 06:43 PM (FhXTo)

285 I wish I could retire but I have miles to go before I sleep

And miles to go before I sleep

Not sure I’m gonna make it because every time I see a pronoun in someone’s email signature I have to buy a new mouse and keyboard after smashing it in rage

Posted by: The Unmasked and Unvaxed Ranger at February 21, 2023 06:44 PM (VTu1l)

286 "&c."

Nice touch, as Bill Buckley once told Mich Daniels.

See you.

Posted by: The Judge at February 21, 2023 06:44 PM (4fYsM)

287 77 Every Day, In Every Way, DIVERSITY comes up in ALL the meetings I am in and the higher up on the food chain you are, the more persuasive it is. Makes me want to both puke and bitch slap my Admiral.

Posted by: Nevergiveup at February 21, 2023 05:55 PM (EVR4i)

Eh, Diversity is a magic word now. And in the military, all the high-ups show they're on board with the "mission" by repeating the magic word a lot.

Posted by: naturalfake at February 21, 2023 05:58 PM (KLPy

What sort of diversity hiring and retention policy does Elon use at SpaceX? Whatever it is, it has produced very good results and it should be tried by all large companies and all local/state/Fed governments. But this will never even be considered by those outfits. Because Elon's diversity policy is to hire anyone who he believes can do the job, regardless of race, color, or creed.

Posted by: Gref at February 21, 2023 06:44 PM (AMIL/)

288 The Cloud is another name for: Someone else's hard drive.

I'm sure important stuff like this is on Flash.

Posted by: DaveA at February 21, 2023 06:44 PM (FhXTo)

289 I see Ukrainian flags around, not that many yet do see them every day.

Posted by: Skip at February 21, 2023 06:45 PM (xhxe8)

290
For any skywatchers, if you look to the west right after sunset, you'll see the thinnest crescent of the Moon, about 4% illumination now. Venus and Jupiter will be right above it, following the rough arc of the ecliptic.

Neptune is fairly close to the Moon as well, but you can't see it with the nekkid eye.

There is sort of contest to try to capture the thinnest crescent Moon visible, the "newest Moon", and here was one of the record breakers back in 2013:

https://tinyurl.com/2mlwopzk

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (Mzdiz) at February 21, 2023 06:46 PM (Mzdiz)

291 McConnell wear one of those little paper Panda Express manager hats.
Posted by: naturalfake

It moved.

Posted by: DaveA at February 21, 2023 06:46 PM (FhXTo)

292 Back in the day when I was writing PLC (programmable logic controller) code for machines and stuff, we would get sent to classes put on by the manufacturers for their new products. Of course, the newer stuff became networked. "Oh, look how cool! You can do X, Y, and Z"

What was the first thing we did in class with them?

We got them networked and tried to fuck up each other's programs by writing into their memory remotely.

Human nature, biotches.

Now extrapolate that to this fucking cloud bullshit.

Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at February 21, 2023 06:47 PM (ufFY8)

293 The Emperor ordered the CHOAM flag be flown from his ship so that everyone understood what was at stake.

Posted by: mrp at February 21, 2023 06:48 PM (rj6Yv)

294 fwiw, I can think of 3 Ukraine flags within a 20 - 30 mile radius; being farm country, I assume that 2 of them are of Ukrainian ancestry ... the 3rd has a bunch of demonrat spew painted on sheets of plywood and I figure it's just a malicious idiot.

Posted by: sock_rat_eez - we are being gaslighted 24/365 at February 21, 2023 06:48 PM (VohFI)

295 My password is 12346. Uncrackable.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy, Set the Earth to fire and reshape it closer to the heart's desire at February 21, 2023 06:48 PM (9ozF+)

296 There is sort of contest to try to capture the thinnest crescent Moon visible, the "newest Moon", and here was one of the record breakers back in 2013:

https://tinyurl.com/2mlwopzk

The "Anorexia Moon."

Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at February 21, 2023 06:48 PM (Bd6X8)

297 Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (Mzdiz) at February 21, 2023 06:46 PM (Mzdiz)

*looks at heavy overcast*

I might be missing this one. Sounds really cool, though.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Prepping for Lent at February 21, 2023 06:49 PM (UQUAY)

298 282 > "Cloud computing" began as a marketing term -- it's not a technical invention per se, because it already existed as ASPs.

ASPs are to Cloud computing as the 1977 Mattel Classic Football handheld game is to PSPs.

ASPs are very specific applications running on a custom, dedicated machines. Cloud computing is a general computing networked resource distributed in any way the provider prefers.
Posted by: bonhomme at February 21, 2023 06:43 PM (eyxn4)

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You're describing the mature version of the concept as built by AWS and copied by everyone else (Google, Microsoft, Oracle, and yes OpenStack). I'm talking about ASPs that are now referred to only as "software as a service" (SaaS) that were hosted on a datacenter network (or across multiple datacenters) and was transparent to the customer. The customer didn't have to purchase any hardware, or virtual hardware for that matter, but they could pay more for more resources. Now pretty much all SaaS offerings are hosted in cloud networks. Not everyone who is a customer is building AMIs and S3 buckets in the Cloud.

Posted by: Woke Explosive Ordnance Disposal Team at February 21, 2023 06:49 PM (ssESX)

299 We need a paradigm shift to the synergy of the cloud.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy, Set the Earth to fire and reshape it closer to the heart's desire at February 21, 2023 06:49 PM (9ozF+)

300 Is Joe on his way back yet or is he still embarrassing us overseas ?
Posted by: It's me donna at February 21, 2023 06:35 PM

Hell, he can do that without leaving D.C.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at February 21, 2023 06:49 PM (Wnv9h)

301 Biden's "Kyiv Stands Strong" clip is on t.v. Geez. He thinks Ukraine is his? It's obvious he likes them; he really, really likes them.

He also graciously thanked Poland for taking in 1.5 million of the 8 million Ukrainians reported to have fled the country. OTOH, little rat Zelesky has thanked Poland for the tank initiative.

Posted by: Lola at February 21, 2023 06:49 PM (Wxlzw)

302 > The Cloud is another name for: Someone else's hard drive.

That implies the cloud is only storage.

Posted by: bonhomme at February 21, 2023 06:50 PM (eyxn4)

303 We need a paradigm shift to the synergy of the cloud.
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy, Set the Earth to fire and reshape it closer to the heart's desire at February 21, 2023 06:49 PM

That noise you just heard from the DoD servers was the paradigm shifting without a clutch.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at February 21, 2023 06:51 PM (Wnv9h)

304 We need a paradigm shift to the synergy of the cloud.
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy, Set the Earth to fire and reshape it closer to the heart's desire at February 21, 2023 06:49 PM (9ozF+)

You moved my cheese, bitch.

Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at February 21, 2023 06:51 PM (ufFY8)

305 There are nood hits

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy, Set the Earth to fire and reshape it closer to the heart's desire at February 21, 2023 06:51 PM (9ozF+)

306 Immona write a book: who the fuck threw out the bag of frozen burritos I stashed for lunches?

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Prepping for Lent at February 21, 2023 06:53 PM (UQUAY)

307 That implies the cloud is only storage.

Microsoft seems to keep trying to prove that it isn't networking.

Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at February 21, 2023 06:53 PM (Bd6X8)

308 it sucked. It felt awful!
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo

Be glad you didn't like it.

Posted by: DaveA at February 21, 2023 06:54 PM (FhXTo)

309 California Dems Say Police K9s Are Racist, Move To Ban Use of Them

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Eh, they're just mad because they can't spell "K9".

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Not a Real Simulation at February 21, 2023 06:54 PM (FVME7)

310 > Now pretty much all SaaS offerings are hosted in cloud networks. Not everyone who is a customer is building AMIs and S3 buckets in the Cloud.

Sure, but you're saying ASP = SaaS = Cloud because ASP = SaaS which often runs on the Cloud. The Cloud is general use computing and storage on demand. ASP and SaaS are not general use computing concepts.

Posted by: bonhomme at February 21, 2023 06:55 PM (eyxn4)

311 264 259 Dopey Joe just claimed "All across my country... Ukrainian flags fly from American homes!"

Anyone here ever see one? I haven't.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at February 21, 2023 06:37 PM (bW8dp)

At first I did.. Not anymore
Posted by: It's me donna at February 21, 2023 06:37 PM (bs+z0)

If Palestine, Ohio, has a city seal, people should put that in their Twitter profiles as a "fuck you."

Posted by: Trump poisoned my cat at February 21, 2023 06:55 PM (KSNKu)

312 20 How does someone access a "spilled" email?

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at February 21, 2023 05:45 PM (63Dwl)
----
With a straw? A rudimentary mop perhaps?

Posted by: Ciampino - it wan't our war to get involved except for FJB's 10% at February 21, 2023 07:03 PM (qfLjt)

313 310 > Now pretty much all SaaS offerings are hosted in cloud networks. Not everyone who is a customer is building AMIs and S3 buckets in the Cloud.

Sure, but you're saying ASP = SaaS = Cloud because ASP = SaaS which often runs on the Cloud. The Cloud is general use computing and storage on demand. ASP and SaaS are not general use computing concepts.
Posted by: bonhomme at February 21, 2023 06:55 PM (eyxn4)
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Your IT career must not predate the use of cloud computer as a "general use computing concept." I remember prior to 2001 or thereabouts, when the only thing anyone referred to as "the cloud" was a balloon stencil in a network diagram.

Posted by: Woke Explosive Ordnance Disposal Team at February 21, 2023 07:04 PM (ssESX)

314 "cloud computing"

Posted by: Woke Explosive Ordnance Disposal Team at February 21, 2023 07:05 PM (ssESX)

315 22 Again. The Cloud is another name for: Someone else's hard drive.

Posted by: Steve_in_SoCal at February 21, 2023 05:46 PM (NW9xb)
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It was almost impossible to make 'laymen' understand that 'The Cloud' wasn't some depository in paradise but instead it was Jimbo's servers with lots of HDs next door or in Timbuktu. When Jimbo went belly up (fire/theft/repo/out of business) your data was likely lost to you but available to whoever bought that server farm.
Microsoft needed this in order to go to their planned subscription model for MS Office, and I can see Windows going that way too. First it will be a small fee ......

Posted by: Ciampino - clouds are potentially ephemoral at February 21, 2023 07:21 PM (qfLjt)

316 Who cares if the military is incompetent. Need them to shoot more Afghans? Maybe force them to kiss the ass of Islamic pedophiles?

The feds won't use them to secure the former Republic's borders, so...

Posted by: insurgens ad opus at February 21, 2023 07:23 PM (jrsdQ)

317 32 The people responsible for sacking the people that should have been sacked have been sacked.

Posted by: fd at February 21, 2023 05:48 PM (iayUP)
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That is so concise and self-explanatory that I would like a flow chart please.

Posted by: Ciampino -- clouds are potentially ephemoral at February 21, 2023 07:29 PM (qfLjt)

318 IMO "cloud computing" is a slang term for distributed networking/processing/etc. It's full of shortcuts. Like, you hope your network infrastructure is up to snuff. My firewalls are good to go. This network switching gear has been properly configured...

And so on...

You've offshored the basic responsibility you have to .... what?

Mostly... you haven't. Because you were more interested in whether or not "Chris" was male, female, or "other."

Those dystopian movies/books, whatever that show a crumbling society? Yea... it's us.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at February 21, 2023 07:41 PM (Q4IgG)

319 93 Its okay. They've restored the password now.

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Posted by: ... at February 21, 2023 06:02 PM (BXxcV)
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"That's my password!" - President Skroob.

Posted by: Ciampino - Spaceballs at February 21, 2023 07:43 PM (qfLjt)

320 98 Makes me want to both puke and bitch slap my Admiral.

Posted by: Nevergiveup at February 21, 2023 05:55 PM (EVR4i)

Be careful...you might knock him off his Navy-issued high heels and he'll turn an ankle!

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at February 21, 2023 06:03 PM (XIJ/X)
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.... and spoil his makeup.

Posted by: Ciampino - Young Frankenstein at the Station at February 21, 2023 07:45 PM (qfLjt)

321 I get paid over $85 per hour working from home with 2 kids at home. I never thought I'd be able to do it but my best friend earns over 10k a month doing this and she convinced me to try. The potential with this is endless.
Here's what I've been doing... www.richzone9.com

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