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Office of Personnel Management Says Hackers Got Data of Millions of Individuals

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Re: Office of Personnel Management Says Hackers Got Data of Millions of Individuals

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Post by MichaelCrawford »

MichaelCrawford wrote: post #79
engi_nerd wrote: post #75

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I am not an absolute authority on this. But my decade of experience in the defense industry tells me "probably not".

Then I expect the best contribution I could make is to continue writing. I was an unclassified subcontractor once. The primary contractor selected me for my expertise with "the part". What he should have done was to ask me to select the vendor. The part I was asked to write code for had quite a serious design flaw.

It was plainly apparent who "the clint" was.

That got on my nerves.

"'The client' is really, really happy with all the prototype boards that we just soaked The American Taxpayer for."

"Great. Please tell 'The Client' that YOU SELECTED THE WRONG "PART!"

Click.

I have the idea that I could offer the consulting service of selecting 'The Parts' to the extent they are unclassified. They often are. But I dont have the first clue as to how to get started. Among my concerns is that some contractors dont want to pay someone to tell them how to avoid cost overruns.

Re: Office of Personnel Management Says Hackers Got Data of Millions of Individuals

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Post by mpyne »

comrade1 wrote: post #59
mpyne wrote: post #48

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Network security is not NSA's job. Nor is information security. Communications security is, but only for "national security information" (i.e. classified) and military communications. Defense against "cyber attack" isn't even NSA's job, and where NSA participates in such endeavors that's on .mil, not .gov DHS does have responsibility for cyber security on .gov however. But what is DHS supposed to do if OPM decides to…

It's part of their information assurance program. https://www.nsa.gov/ia/index.shtml

Did you read the page you linked?

Try clicking on the "About IA at NSA" link and you'll find out what NSA means by "Information Assurance":

> NSA's Information Assurance Directorate (IAD) protects and defends National Security Information and Information Systems, in accordance with National Security Directive 42. National Security Systems are defined as systems that handle classified information or information otherwise critical to military or intelligence activities.

Or in other words, what I just said...

Re: Office of Personnel Management Says Hackers Got Data of Millions of Individuals

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Post by MichaelCrawford »

irishcoffee wrote: post #72
MichaelCrawford wrote: post #66

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I offer my heartfelt and humble apology for insulting you. That was not my intention though I do understand why you took it that way. I intended to insult the United States Congress.

A well-met insult. The government is putting itself into a corner with their current policies on hiring criteria. If you have an idea on how to change that, I'd support you however I could. If it matters, I really admire your apology, not many people have the "balls/vagina/both/neither" to admit, at the very least, a mis-interpretation of a comment.

I have lots of ideas as to how to change that; the problem is not unique to the government.

Real Soon anow http://wew.warplife.com/jobs/ will redirect to a domain that my brother in law will register for me because my reputation for speaking my mind has made me completely unemployable.

Re: Office of Personnel Management Says Hackers Got Data of Millions of Individuals

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Post by mpyne »

comrade1 wrote: post #60
arh68 wrote: post #29

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> information security, which is their job as well. Is that really their job? It seems there might be a dozen other agencies responsible, ones less interested in foreign computer networks. Is that DISA's bailiwick? Perhaps NIST? Homeland Security? et cetera

https://www.nsa.gov/ia/index.shtml Information assurance. Products and services for government and businesses.

Which if you click further around in that section of the NSA website, you'll find that NSA is only talking about information assurance of classified and sensitive military information, not any information handled anywhere in the government.

Re: Office of Personnel Management Says Hackers Got Data of Millions of Individuals

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Post by engi_nerd »

MichaelCrawford wrote: post #79
engi_nerd wrote: post #75

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I am not an absolute authority on this. But my decade of experience in the defense industry tells me "probably not".

Then I expect the best contribution I could make is to continue writing. I was an unclassified subcontractor once. The primary contractor selected me for my expertise with "the part". What he should have done was to ask me to select the vendor. The part I was asked to write code for had quite a serious design flaw.

Please do continue writing. I enjoy your writing very much.

Re: Office of Personnel Management Says Hackers Got Data of Millions of Individuals

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Post by MichaelCrawford »

engi_nerd wrote: post #85
MichaelCrawford wrote: post #79

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Then I expect the best contribution I could make is to continue writing. I was an unclassified subcontractor once. The primary contractor selected me for my expertise with "the part". What he should have done was to ask me to select the vendor. The part I was asked to write code for had quite a serious design flaw.

Please do continue writing. I enjoy your writing very much.

Your Wish Is My Command:

   I State This That It May Be Rejected:
   The Lysistrata Manifesto
   http://www.warplife.com/manifestos/lysistrata/
tl;dr: I shall withhold sex until the computer industry fixes its product defects.
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