* Posts by ChuckM6421

2 publicly visible posts • joined 15 Mar 2023

A right Royal pain in the Dallas: City IT systems crippled by ransomware

ChuckM6421

Re: Somebody was behind on their patches and updates

7 years for me in a Fed agency with critical classified work going on. The worst came not because of some hapless, clueless Windows user or admin, but due to a lazy, self-entitled, too-cool-for-skool Linux admin who didn't update SSH. The entire facility disconnected for a couple days and terabytes of research data lost.

There are some good ones, no question. I hope I could be considered one.

But the bigger problem I saw was the adipose layer of middle-managers not smart enough to say anything other than 'everything's fine'. And make promises they couldn't keep.

Pentagon whistleblower Ellsberg given months to live

ChuckM6421

Also...

Reality Leigh Winner (born December 4, 1991) is an American former enlisted US Air Force member and NSA translator. In 2018, she was given the longest prison sentence ever imposed for unauthorized release of government information to the media after she leaked an intelligence report about Russian interference in the 2016 United States elections. She was sentenced to five years and three months in federal prison.

On June 3, 2017, while employed by the military contractor Pluribus International Corporation, Winner was arrested on suspicion of leaking an intelligence report about Russian interference in the 2016 United States elections from the National Security Agency (NSA) to the news website The Intercept. The report indicated that Russian hackers accessed voter registration rolls in the United States with an email phishing operation, though it was unclear whether any changes had been made.

- wikipedia