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The Clean Network – United States Department of State
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Re: The Clean Network – United States Department of State
#42Earlier quoted context omitted.
84 more days till election... fingers & toes crossed
The election may already be "decided" through fraudulent means with the USPS being captured. Trump's USPS' Postmaster General replacement, along with who recently fired 23 USPS executives: "Lawmakers Demand Removal of Postmaster General DeJoy Over 'Nefarious' Efforts to Destroy the Postal Service and 'Aid Trump Reelection'" - https://www.reddit.com/r/politics/comments/i71z41/lawmakers_...
This shouldn't be downvoted - it's relevant to hackers here because the executive branch found an effective way to hack the electoral process. Socio-political engineering at its finest!
Re: The Clean Network – United States Department of State
#43What's up with the incredible low resolution jpeg at the top of the article? It really stands out from the other images ( which seem fine )
I was curious about that too.
The img tag has a "srcset" attribute with resolutions from 85x48 to 1920x1080, but the "sizes" attribute is "(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px".
Re: The Clean Network – United States Department of State
#44It looks like we are breaking the internet up along the lines of political boundaries. The US will have one internet, the EU another, China yet another... Hopefully the pendulum will swing back in the other direction soon...
China already has their own internet.
Re: The Clean Network – United States Department of State
#45Has anyone published the evidence of Huawei being an "arm of the PRC surveillance state"? I've seen a lot of claims and a lot of out-of-court-settled lawsuits, but nothing really showing that they're using their devices or software infrastructure for surveillance.
Here is some https://www.forbes.com/sites/zakdoffman/2019/04/25/huawei-xi...
Is it referencing something specific? It's an editorial referencing other editorials. Is there something direct like PRISM type wikileaks?
Considering the NSA hacked and had backdoors in Huawei servers for almost a decade, I imagine direct evidence shouldn't be difficult to produce.
Re: The Clean Network – United States Department of State
#46The intention of cutting out bad actors seems to be in the right place, but using "Clean" for the terminology is really unnecessarily inflammatory.
All I can think of is the story about how toothpaste was made popular.
Re: The Clean Network – United States Department of State
#47Isn't it ridiculously easy to set up attacks from within a "clean" network? It probably does increase costs marginally (you have to fly people to "clean" countries, set up ISP access with third parties, etc) but are there any public estimates how much it does that vs the increased costs to run this network? I would think it's marginal. Seeing the partner list this seems like more of a ploy by telecoms to attack tech…
There's a bunch of different measures discussed, but they all seem to remove some attack surface that we have seen exploited. Securing the routers and network cables removes the means for man in the middle attacks (or at least makes them preventable with router security). Not connecting to telecos does the same (because of bgp highjacking and the like). Removing chinese apps and not storing data on Chinese servers ma…
Securing routers and network cables is basic stuff that we should be doing anyway (and probably are, at a classified level.) You don't need to balkanize the net in order to do those things.
Removing "Chinese apps" just means that different Candy Crush clones will be collecting that data, either directly or through their advertising networks. Or it means the Chinese companies who need to collect data will collect it through data breaches.
The best thing you can say is that this puts a speed bump in front of attackers, but since speed bumps aren't a security measure the reality is that it won't do anything.
Re: The Clean Network – United States Department of State
#48Earlier quoted context omitted.
84 more days till election... fingers & toes crossed
Many municipalities have no-justification-needed absentee voting (vote-by-mail by any other name) which can be dropped off often weeks before in-person voting occurs. Likewise many places have early in-person voting. 1. Check your voter registration. 2. Register to vote if you need to and it's still open for registration in your state. 3. VOTE as soon as you can. If you're voting absentee then drop off your ballot ea…
Trump's USPS' Postmaster General replacement fired 23 USPS executives. It's possible that vote-by-mail will be the easiest way for gerrymandering to occur.
"Lawmakers Demand Removal of Postmaster General DeJoy Over 'Nefarious' Efforts to Destroy the Postal Service and 'Aid Trump Reelection'" - https://www.reddit.com/r/politics/comments/i71z41/lawmakers_....
Re: The Clean Network – United States Department of State
#49It looks like we are breaking the internet up along the lines of political boundaries. The US will have one internet, the EU another, China yet another... Hopefully the pendulum will swing back in the other direction soon...
China already has their own internet.
Yea, i'd rather not follow suit.
Re: The Clean Network – United States Department of State
#50The US is ran & staffed by the hyper-partisan “Z-team” right now.
This is tragic & dangerous bc we need shrewd & wise people to make decisions + build coalitions in the opening decades of 21st century, not hyper-partisan kooks.
Some of the worst actors in cyber space rn is the Russian gov’t & their intelligence + “security” services —- it sure is funny (funny as in strange, not humorous) how difficult it is to get any of these apparatchiks to publicly acknowledge that