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For those downvoting this comment, here's a source: https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/legal-issues/capitol-si...
Hilarious, but definitely not a spy. The Russians aren't so amateur as to send an undercover agent to the US who can't speak English. If they missed the opportunity at the Capitol the other day to plant listening devices though, they must be kicking themselves now.
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For national security buildings (e.g. the NSA) it is the exact same as your foreign country experience. The guards around the perimeter are very quick to engage and ask what you are doing if you meander around the outside.
The NASA HQ administration building off 4th and E just south of the Mall has no armed guards posted outside, and there's even a NASA public credit union in the building, which does not require passing through the metal detectors or security post just a couple doors away in the same open lobby. It is visited by plenty of non-NASA, non-government ordinary customers who could easily blend in with official foot traffic o…
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I agree, that was an insane thing to do for those protests. It still bothers me. But I think we should all be in favor of the police response being more restrained and minimizing force, like we saw this week. We should be advocating for more of this in general.
I am in favor for the police having a more intelligent response and careful use of force. But I think it is significantly more important that they are consistent; playing favorites seriously undermines their credibility and by extension the safety of all of us. I am also in favor of protecting our legislative process with absurd levels of security when there is a known risk and tensions are so high. The police really…
While the Congressmen were hiding in the bunker for an hour, they sent out many phone calls pleading for help.
* Pentagon / DoD didn't want to get involved.
* Maryland's Governor didn't want to get involved without DoD approval.
* Eventually, they got to Mike Pence who authorized the DoD to help out. Once the DoD deployed the National Guard, Maryland / Virginia was willing to help out too.
* The Mayor didn't have power to deploy the Guard. Only the President had that power.
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For those downvoting this comment, here's a source: https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/legal-issues/capitol-si...
Hilarious, but definitely not a spy. The Russians aren't so amateur as to send an undercover agent to the US who can't speak English. If they missed the opportunity at the Capitol the other day to plant listening devices though, they must be kicking themselves now.
Clearly they never tried calling those phones to test...
> belonged to a conference room and was used for presentations Yikes. My first though was - oh this should be no big deal chances are there are good policies in place for laptops that go home with people. Then I realized it is a shared/central machine which means it probably has the most effed up and relaxed security in the fleet, post-it notes with passwords taped to the palm rests, and god knows what else. IT depar…
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I wonder if, since so many on HN feel that they are enlightened people, it is possible for us to give the benefit of the doubt to people who's jobs we don't do and probably know nothing about? Just because we work in tech does not mean we know everything, and not having been there means we don't know the circumstances anyway. It is disgustingly arrogant of any of us to proclaim that these people must be incompetent o…
If it's any consolation, US Capitol Police chief Steve Sund was forced to resign by Congress. Seems like it's not just armchair quarterbacks who were let down by their shitty response.
> belonged to a conference room and was used for presentations Yikes. My first though was - oh this should be no big deal chances are there are good policies in place for laptops that go home with people. Then I realized it is a shared/central machine which means it probably has the most effed up and relaxed security in the fleet, post-it notes with passwords taped to the palm rests, and god knows what else. IT depar…
IT should be able to revoke any access the machine has, so the only compromise would be what was already on the machine; which would be the case regardless of security policy, as they could just access the harddrive directly regardless of OS security policy. In practice, it wouldn't suprise me if that computer was locally storing passwords that were not specific to that machine, which might mean needing to revoke a b…
That doesn't help much because many people use patterns to their passwords and use the same passwords elsewhere. Seeing the expired passwords of many important people would have a very high chance of having a few which would be of use in breaking into accounts even if they were already expired.
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How can you lock up Windows like that?
there are a few ways to do it: - (W10) Assigned Access - microsoft's solution to kiosk computers. You can make the app run on top of the lock screen, so users can use their one app without actually needing privileges on the computer. - Software Restriction Policies - You can whitelist select applications or publishers and every other executable will fail to launch. requires enterprise licensing. - Mandatory Profile -…
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How can you lock up Windows like that?
I don't know what the best practice for doing this would be but I would change the default shell from explorer to mstsc (the terminal services/remote desktop client) and disable task manager and internet explorer. I don't think that would perfectly lock it down, but it would do the job for ~90% of use cases.