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NSA releases open-source infosec tool

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Re: NSA releases open-source infosec tool

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Post by golergka »

gorgak wrote: post #15

any hacker who supports the NSA or GCHQ is a traitor to the hacker culture and to the human race. these disgusting people must be stopped. the americans and british geopolitical meddling made their own enemies which they implore you to give your freedoms up for (or did, your freedoms are gone right about now) - the NSA and GCHQ need to be completely abolished and the money put into sustainable communities and fuck th…

> traitor to the hacker culture and to the human race

Regardless of whether your sentiment is right or not, do you really expect a comment with phrases like this to be taken seriously?

Re: NSA releases open-source infosec tool

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Post by valarauca1 »

jonnybgood wrote: post #19
MichaelCrawford wrote: post #13

I applied for the US Air Force Cyber Command in 2008. While there is no way I could get a clearance I hoped to work in a purely defensive position. At the time every branch of the military wanted its own computer security force; eventually they were unified under the Joint Forces Cyber Command, which is under the Stategic Command (STRATCOM); the Strategic Command is the joint successor to the Strategic Air Command. (…

> (The military is heavily into the word "Joint". I cannot possibly speculate as to why.) Joint refers to a multibranch organization. The Joint Forces Cyber Command, for example, doesn't belong to a specific branch, but employs multiple branches. The commander can be Air, Army, Navy, or Marine. When any two branches work together it becomes joint .

>The commander can be Air, Army, Navy, or Marine.

In non-combat joint operations. Like technological development, R&D, etc. The Marines are represented by the Navy, as they're part of the Navy.

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Post by azraomega »

gorgak wrote: post #15

any hacker who supports the NSA or GCHQ is a traitor to the hacker culture and to the human race. these disgusting people must be stopped. the americans and british geopolitical meddling made their own enemies which they implore you to give your freedoms up for (or did, your freedoms are gone right about now) - the NSA and GCHQ need to be completely abolished and the money put into sustainable communities and fuck th…

kinda extreme. Most of them probably go there for employment opportunity, nothing to do with whatever ideology. Calling them names just sound so immature and unprofessional at best.

Re: NSA releases open-source infosec tool

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Post by logicrime »

A similar headline might read: "ISIS releases freedom of speech app" or perhaps "KKK releases geocaching app" or "LAPD releases Snitcharoo app" etc.

I wouldn't be against a Dept of Cyber Affairs, but the NSA absolutely needs to be stopped, at any cost.

Re: NSA releases open-source infosec tool

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Post by surge »

golergka wrote: post #21
gorgak wrote: post #15

any hacker who supports the NSA or GCHQ is a traitor to the hacker culture and to the human race. these disgusting people must be stopped. the americans and british geopolitical meddling made their own enemies which they implore you to give your freedoms up for (or did, your freedoms are gone right about now) - the NSA and GCHQ need to be completely abolished and the money put into sustainable communities and fuck th…

> traitor to the hacker culture and to the human race Regardless of whether your sentiment is right or not, do you really expect a comment with phrases like this to be taken seriously?

I assume by the smiley face at the end, he wasn't, and was being tongue in cheek the entire time, you just don't realize it until the end.

Re: NSA releases open-source infosec tool

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Post by MichaelCrawford »

jonnybgood wrote: post #19
MichaelCrawford wrote: post #13

I applied for the US Air Force Cyber Command in 2008. While there is no way I could get a clearance I hoped to work in a purely defensive position. At the time every branch of the military wanted its own computer security force; eventually they were unified under the Joint Forces Cyber Command, which is under the Stategic Command (STRATCOM); the Strategic Command is the joint successor to the Strategic Air Command. (…

> (The military is heavily into the word "Joint". I cannot possibly speculate as to why.) Joint refers to a multibranch organization. The Joint Forces Cyber Command, for example, doesn't belong to a specific branch, but employs multiple branches. The commander can be Air, Army, Navy, or Marine. When any two branches work together it becomes joint .

My high school newspaper was named "The Joint Union" after the "Armijo Joint Union High School District".

When one rolled a copy up a certain way, one got a long, narrow, cylindrical paper object that said "Joint" along its length.

Re: NSA releases open-source infosec tool

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Post by happyscrappy »

user_0001 wrote: post #20
gorgak wrote: post #15

any hacker who supports the NSA or GCHQ is a traitor to the hacker culture and to the human race. these disgusting people must be stopped. the americans and british geopolitical meddling made their own enemies which they implore you to give your freedoms up for (or did, your freedoms are gone right about now) - the NSA and GCHQ need to be completely abolished and the money put into sustainable communities and fuck th…

oh come on, to think this exclusive to the UK and the US is incredibly naive. To think it hasn't gone on since the beginning of government, all governments. Dismantling them won't do a damn thing, they are a product of the political system we have, not the cause. Get rid of one letter agency and another will appear. If have to go for the cause

In order to hate you have to separate out the US and UK because if you admit that the whole West is working together then you have to hate the whole West, and that would be stupid.
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