Hence the importance of the full disk encryption!
Laptop stolen from Pelosi's office during storming of U.S. Capitol, says aide
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Re: Laptop stolen from Pelosi's office during storming of U.S. Capitol, says aide
#82Beyond the information security risk around the loss of this specific device, what really worries me is the physical security implications here. I'm certainly no expert on the subject, but it seems to me like, in a building like the US Capitol, it should not be anywhere near this easy for unauthorized people to waltz into an office or conference room in the first place. Let alone walk away with items from within that…
I've traveled to countries before whose offices of government are behind very large fences, protected by unfriendly looking men standing behind heavy machine guns in armored vehicles – and the guide books are very clear that you are not to take photos of them. I much prefer the approach taken in the USA, where our offices of government are accessible to the people that the government serves. It's very good that I can…
Seems like it ought to be possible to have both, to some degree. I don't want the capitol to be a fortress, but they need to prevent stuff like this. I mean... the US spends massive amounts of money on the police and military.
I think it should be kind of like a non-Newtonian fluid. Walk in slowly and peacefully and it's ok. Try and punch it, it solidifies quickly.
Re: Laptop stolen from Pelosi's office during storming of U.S. Capitol, says aide
#83Beyond the information security risk around the loss of this specific device, what really worries me is the physical security implications here. I'm certainly no expert on the subject, but it seems to me like, in a building like the US Capitol, it should not be anywhere near this easy for unauthorized people to waltz into an office or conference room in the first place. Let alone walk away with items from within that…
Ha! These people are in their 70's and 80's, getting any legitimate security is near impossible. Try telling your grandparents not to play flash games on their computer. The best security should have been by the entrances of the building. Edit: Pelosi is 80 years old.
Age isn’t the problem, lack of digital security literacy might well be.
My dad was born in ‘39, he did a degree in electrical engineering, and it took until something like his second job after graduation for his employer to send him on a two-day training course for the new-fangled [0] invention of something called “software”. He then worked in software from that course until retirement.
However, he never understood RSA despite working on UK military IFF systems.
[0] “new-fangled” was his description; the closest he came to acknowledging Ada Lovelace before I learned of her was to complain about the language Ada.
Re: Laptop stolen from Pelosi's office during storming of U.S. Capitol, says aide
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Logged on, unlocked and unattended? That shouldn’t be allowed to happen.
to be fair, I'm sure the training on insurrection defense for a staffer was lacking since this hasn't happened since the early 1800s.
Well training for much more mundane events should cover it. I wonder if they’re personal laptops otherwise IT security would have an auto lock enabled.
Re: Laptop stolen from Pelosi's office during storming of U.S. Capitol, says aide
#85They should consider ANY hardware in the Capitol Building during the insurrection to be compromised.
Re: Laptop stolen from Pelosi's office during storming of U.S. Capitol, says aide
#86Earlier quoted context omitted.
To prevent unauthorized entry, Capitol Police would have had to put up a fight. Seems they were unwilling to do so. If America continues down this path Russia (and others) are just gonna have a field day.
Firing on a mob is risky as hell and not morally clear. I can't blame Capitol Police--at least for the actions after it already got out of hand. If federal security at Court House shoots BLM protestors who are entering a federal court house, those security people would probably get charged with murder. It's unreasonable to expect Capitol Police to make that sort of moral choice in the moment. And if you give cops the…
>That said, they may (probably?) screwed up containing the crowd contained in the first place.
Certainly with the benefit of hindsight, there should have been a much stronger show of force/barricades/etc. Should that have been obvious even without hindsight? Don't know.
That said, once the Capitol Police were outnumbered and things were getting out of hand, I'm pretty sure the best outcome if they had used deadly force to stop a rush would have been headlines like "Dozens of Trump supporters dead after police open fire on crowd." Worse scenarios include the police getting overwhelmed anyway and many of them killed also leading to a firefight within the capitol.
Re: Laptop stolen from Pelosi's office during storming of U.S. Capitol, says aide
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It has not been proven. This is false. Please stop spreading it. Multiple people were killed in clashes with the police. They did not help the rioters. This is the type of misinformation that caused all these problems.
Police taking selfie with terrorist: https://twitter.com/bubbaprog/status/1346920198461419520 Police letting terrorists in: https://twitter.com/joshuapotash/status/1346931235176783873
Regarding the second video, there were already protesters behind the barrier so those police may have been ordered to move back to another area.
The bigger concern for me is the understaffing and declining of offers of assistance made by other police departments.
Re: Laptop stolen from Pelosi's office during storming of U.S. Capitol, says aide
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The Capitol Police were either incompetent or complicit. There are literally no other options. They knew there would be a big protests, numbers put it around 200k~300k (a tiny percentage of which actually went into the capitol building mind you). If they weren't prepared for this: incompetence. But there are videos of people getting selfies with guards, and staying within the velvet ropes when coming in. Something is…
They were understaffed, and it was clear that they could not protect both the building and the people. They correctly prioritized evacuating the people.
>They were understaffed, and it was clear that they could not protect both the building and the people. They correctly prioritized evacuating the people.
I think it's pretty clear at this point that they would have been overstaffed if the protestors had a different skin color.
Re: Laptop stolen from Pelosi's office during storming of U.S. Capitol, says aide
#89Beyond the information security risk around the loss of this specific device, what really worries me is the physical security implications here. I'm certainly no expert on the subject, but it seems to me like, in a building like the US Capitol, it should not be anywhere near this easy for unauthorized people to waltz into an office or conference room in the first place. Let alone walk away with items from within that…
I've traveled to countries before whose offices of government are behind very large fences, protected by unfriendly looking men standing behind heavy machine guns in armored vehicles – and the guide books are very clear that you are not to take photos of them. I much prefer the approach taken in the USA, where our offices of government are accessible to the people that the government serves. It's very good that I can…
Unfortunately we don't live in that world anymore.
There is a major opposition movement growing, and it pains me to say it but Trump was right in his last speech.
'This is just the beginning'
Re: Laptop stolen from Pelosi's office during storming of U.S. Capitol, says aide
#90Earlier quoted context omitted.
To prevent unauthorized entry, Capitol Police would have had to put up a fight. Seems they were unwilling to do so. If America continues down this path Russia (and others) are just gonna have a field day.
Firing on a mob is risky as hell and not morally clear. I can't blame Capitol Police--at least for the actions after it already got out of hand. If federal security at Court House shoots BLM protestors who are entering a federal court house, those security people would probably get charged with murder. It's unreasonable to expect Capitol Police to make that sort of moral choice in the moment. And if you give cops the…
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