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• Post #2171023

  The Difference Between How Trump, Biden, Pence, and Clinton Mishandled Classified Information I should first state where I’m coming from (because #IANAL). I served in the US intelligence community from 1996-2004, first as an enlisted Marine, and then as a federal employee at NSA and later CIA. I worked on watchfloors and did ops, but most of that career was spent managing and/or securing classified systems. I was trained at the Fort Washington¹ facility in qualifying SCIFs², had my classified c...

• Post #1763661

  @_dm Agreed on the first part. This is the predictable outcome of civil disobedience. And while I have my own thoughts on the effectiveness of their approach, I regardless respect their conviction to do it. Regarding Nimbus, it just looks like a generic cloud services contract with the Israeli government. And there's no world in which the Israeli military lets anything remotely operational sit on cloud services—it's just too much of an opsec risk. But governments are complex in...

• Post #1763660

  @_dm Don't want to belabour the point on the protest itself. I'll just say that I agree they were very successful at getting press coverage, but I doubt they get any substantive change from it, and it's unclear to me what they were even trying to accomplish. Resurrecting my ~20yr old government contracting memories: 1. I can't say anything is impossible, but I just cannot square IDF opsec/classification with allowing any of that sort of activity on a cloud provi...

• Post #1763659

  @_dm It seems like we're both at a similar place on this. No easy answers. And no good way to influence the parties with real agency in the conflict. Honestly though, it's refreshing to be in a conversation where I'm not getting labelled either "genocidal" or "antisemitic," just because I'm not comfortable with any of the grossly oversimplified positions. Thanks for that.

• Post #1763657

  Anyone familiar with truv.com for employment verification? All I know so far is that it bootstraps off an HTTP URL with a massive unique identifier (of course you get a cert error if you try to force HTTPS). That just takes you to a landing page, which requires installing an app to do literally anything. Seems kinda concerning that a one-time event like employment verification would require installing an app. And then there's the obvious question of why they have an app at all, since yo...

• Post #1763656

  I just determined that plus addressing on email forwards broke with the transition from Google Domains to Squarespace (i.e. forwarding foo@bar.com to myfoobar@gmail.com used to also forward foo+tag@bar.com to myfoobar+tag@gmail.com). This means I'm now missing a bunch of emails, because as a general rule I would create a custom plus address with a relevant tag anytime I registered an email. So now I'm wondering if anyone has thoughts on a way to get this working in Squarespace....

• Post #1763655

  @_dm Yeah, looking for more of a drop-in replacement in a single service.

• Post #1763654

  @fugueish I have thoughts... that I'm going to keep to myself.

• Post #1763653

  @fugueish Indeed.

• Post #1763652

  Neighbor just called asking for help because their Gmail account was hijacked and now they're locked out (and the hijacker chained off that to other accounts). I'm heading over in a bit to help. This is the will be my first experience with the process from the consumer perspective.