Post #376,121
6/9/13 3:01:27 PM
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<Red Siren!!!11>US government PRISM web site!!!11
http://www.dot.gov/i...privacy/pia-prism
:-/
Via Martin on Balloon-Juice - http://www.balloon-j.../#comment-4479125 :
Look, if you have leak that you think proves a global government and industry conspiracy that every part of government and industry has strongly denied (and not in some weasel way, either) then you need to have pretty good evidence of it. When the evidence you produce also contradicts what you are claiming, then you need to come up with much better evidence.
IÂll again note that the slides that GG is basing this on says to go to an FAA procurement program called PRISM for more details: http://www.dot.gov/i...privacy/pia-prism
Nobody has explained that. IÂll again say that GG is getting punked here. I think that presentation is at least partially fabricated. It might be based on some real information, but I think itÂs been embellished to get GG attention.
It is rather curious that a $20M/yr government program can somehow be an all-powerful vacuum....
Cheers,
Scott.
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Post #376,122
6/9/13 3:07:06 PM
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Guardian: Leaker outs himself.
http://www.guardian....ower-surveillance
The individual responsible for one of the most significant leaks in US political history is Edward Snowden, a 29-year-old former technical assistant for the CIA and current employee of the defence contractor Booz Allen Hamilton. Snowden has been working at the National Security Agency for the last four years as an employee of various outside contractors, including Booz Allen and Dell.
(emphasis added)
Interesting choice of adjective there, Glenn.
Cheers,
Scott.
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Post #376,138
6/9/13 6:19:12 PM
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More on Snowden.
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Post #376,139
6/9/13 6:33:30 PM
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hmm, maybe I should apply
as a $200,000 a year NSA-contractor with Booz Allen Hamilton based in Hawaii. he was a security network infrastructure administrator. Kinda my current job description. That's about $100 per hour isn't it? Any opinions expressed by me are mine alone, posted from my home computer, on my own time as a free American and do not reflect the opinions of any person or company that I have had professional relations with in the past 58 years. meep
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Post #376,140
6/9/13 6:44:14 PM
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Better hurry.
I expect they'll be getting lots of applications on Monday, if numbers like that are true.
https://bah.taleo.ne...earch.ftl?lang=en
;-)
Cheers,
Scott.
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Post #376,141
6/9/13 6:49:00 PM
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just looked at rents :-(
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Post #376,143
6/9/13 7:09:39 PM
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Yup. Too often it works that way...
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Post #378,827
8/5/13 6:15:38 PM
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$116k is a more realistic going rate.
http://www.nextgov.c...68090/?oref=river
The survey of 500 cybersecurity professionals, released Monday by Semper Secure and underwritten by Northrop Grumman, NetApp and MeriTalk, found that cyber pros are earning $116,000 per year, or $55.77 per hour, on average.
Federal agencies, which are challenged by strong demand for cyber talent while also facing budget cuts and pay freezes, may take heart in knowing that high salaries and benefits were ranked fifth in areas cyber pros most value, however.
The most valuable assets of a cyber career included interesting and challenging work (56 percent), important and meaningful work (44 percent), love for technology (39 percent), the constant change and dynamic industry (31 percent) and job security (27 percent). Just one in four cyber pros ranked high salaries and benefits as a top perk of their career.
In addition, the federal government may be a step up over other sectors in a key benefit cyber professionals want  flexible work arrangements and telework, the study found. Nearly half (47 percent) said flexible work arrangements are most important to their overall quality of life. In addition, 14 percent valued telework as the most important aspect of their jobs, even more than pay, benefits and prestige.
FWIW.
Cheers,
Scott.
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Post #378,838
8/5/13 8:47:03 PM
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cheap bassars $55 is low
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Post #389,666
5/20/14 8:42:21 PM
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Driftglass: Breaking- NSA collecting massive amounts of data
http://driftglass.bl...ning-massive.html
(Editorial comment elided.)
Cheers,
Scott.
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Post #389,669
5/20/14 10:42:01 PM
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Deja vu all over again.. but it snot?
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Post #389,685
5/21/14 9:23:01 AM
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this is from 2006. why post? what point?
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Post #389,686
5/21/14 10:16:01 AM
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Just to show Snowden's revelations weren't exactly new. HTH
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Post #389,711
5/21/14 5:43:29 PM
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Golly; why they be SOO-Upset! if it's *ALL* 'old' news..Hmm?
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Post #376,123
6/9/13 3:16:46 PM
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To quote a scholar: Meh...
GG may be strident, but he generally backs up his points. He has a really good truth/falsehood ratio. The government and its apologists lie so much they can't tell the difference any more. Some apologists may just be misguided because everything from toilet paper receipts and up are highly classified now. and a 20M budget means nothing; how much is hidden in black ops or Department of Energy? The government, including the current administration, has been pumping propaganda and just pure bullshit for so long it's hard to guess when they might be telling the truth. GG has been a straight shooter with an excellent accuracy record, even if he is a pain in the ass at times.
It comes down to this: Do you want to believe an known blatant serial liar or an obnoxious generally truthful gadfly? Your choice.
You can easily guess what mine is.
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Post #376,125
6/9/13 3:41:18 PM
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dunno, if they are doing this
wouldn't surprise me they doing everything else.
http://www.guardian....-data-court-order
ordered by the Court, an electronic copy of the following tangible things: all call detail
records or "telephony metadata" created by Verizon for communications (i) between
the United States and abroad; or (ii) wholly within the United States, including local
telephone calls. This Order does not require Verizon to produce telephony metadata
for communications wholly originating and terminating in foreign countries.
Telephony metadata includes comprehensive communications routing information,.
including but not limited to session identifying information (e.g., originating and
terminating telephone number, International Mobile Subscriber Identity (IMSI) number,
International Mobile station Equipment Identity (IMEI) number, etc.), trunk identifier,
telephone calling card numbers, and time and duration of call. Telephony metadata but keep on going defending the government because the other guy would be worse Any opinions expressed by me are mine alone, posted from my home computer, on my own time as a free American and do not reflect the opinions of any person or company that I have had professional relations with in the past 58 years. meep
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Post #376,126
6/9/13 3:44:48 PM
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funny, dont see the FAA logo here?
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Post #376,127
6/9/13 3:50:41 PM
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"Go PRISMFAA" - center, last line of slide.
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Post #376,147
6/10/13 3:52:43 AM
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FAA = FISA Amendments Act
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Post #376,128
6/9/13 3:54:50 PM
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My 'faith' that the 'govt' Can ... perspicuously *mine*
oompty-petabytes of factoids--akin to plotting the trajectory of each molecule/nullifying the whole Point of 'Brownian Motion' [as in other 'heated gasses']--with alacrity??
..is ~~ my 'faith' that the USSC is Not now: a thoroughly-disgraced card-carrying minion of the Far-Rightful Society of Idiots, currently in ascendance as the mobocracy du jour.
R,I.P. English Murican Language, in-extremis from shortly before Iraq invasion and the Cheney Shogunate's flat-out coup.
In other news.. there are no longer any un-infected verbs.
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Post #376,174
6/10/13 2:37:44 PM
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I just heard the president say
...that he "welcomes this debate" and considers it a "healthy sign." This statement, I fear, will have to be regarded as being fully as disingenuous as anything ever uttered by C-Plus Augustus during the Cheney Shogunate should Obama's Justice Department move against young Snowdon—or else, as I've grown to fear, the buttons on a modern president's desk are no longer connected to any braking function on the machineries of the National Security state.
Just at the moment I'm listening on NPR to some asshole former CIA head honcho Woolsey calling for Snowdon to be hung up by the balls, and claiming grievous and irreparable damage to "national security" ("if you tell anybody, you tell the terrorists").
James Fallows has a considerably more nuanced view of the hit taken by "national security":
http://www.theatlant...hong-kong/276692/
cordially,
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Post #376,180
6/10/13 3:12:18 PM
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Who really just "found out"?
I'm pretty sure most of us -- and certainly anyone generally considered an "enemy" -- already assumed NSA is recording everything. We just lost deniability, so this is a political problem moreso than a security issue.
--
Drew
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