But where are cyan, green, blue and contrast?
It would seem that in giving contractors security clearance, the U S Government takes good care that they themselves don’t learn any actual security. Because, sadly, this was an amateurish effort. With a little more knowledge she could have been completely untraceable.
As someone who has been professionally involved in printer security, my advice is don’t, just don’t. A lot of corporate level printing systems record all kinds of data about print jobs, including tying users to documents printed. At one supposedly secure facility I discovered that users could, with just a little knowledge, find out what was being printed by who - and people were using document titles like (though not identical with obviously) Final Review of Radioisotope Leak Building 44. That’s before we get into the yellow dot pattern that uniquely identifies printers and other forms of hidden watermarking used in secure establishments. Unless you know a lot about your printing infrastructure, regard printers as unsafe for leakers.
I’m surprised that she had any printing access, though.
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Time to campaign for Trump to pardon her when he leaves office ;(
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Given the complete lack of any apparent attempt at covering her tracks, I don’t think she intended to be undiscovered.
The tone of this thread is an interesting contrast to the discussions of Snowden. Ed gets accused of not being a real whistleblower because he was careful and meticulous; this one gets criticised because she wasn’t.
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Guess she got her clearance in a box of snack food products.
The facts of the matter seem to be less important to the internet than attention grabbing headlines.
As far as I’ve been able to tell we dont know her motive yet.
Passing blame down the line, it does it bestly.
Everywhere I’ve worked you’d get chewed out for sending a text document to the color printer. Public schools are poor though.
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Companies that fuss about having separate printers for mono and colour rather than standardising already have a cost problem that can’t be solved by micromanaging.
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Seconded… Way back when I was supporting the print servers it seemed to be monthly that I had to trawl the event logs looking for who printed something that should not have been printed at work, not just simply not work related but everything from porn to lets print the salaries of everyone in the group at performance review time.
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Who the actual fuck prints porn?
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Yeah, so? That’s better than standing, as all the “good” governments and people do, with Saudi Arabia.
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It was on the factory floor somewhere… and it was awhile ago before the work firewall was smarter about things but yeah someone was printing out nsfw things and leaving them in the pile every morning.
Also another thing I know, don’t use your work email to send sexytime messages to your mistress who is also a coworker, doubly so don’t print them out (or at least don’t wait around for others to see it before picking it up), triply so if you are the CEO. God I hated the ethics training the rest of us had to take for that. Dunno what security did with those event logs and I don’t care.
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If you want to work for the security or defense of the US, pledging your loyalty to any foreign country is probably a poor idea.
You have a strange definition of “stands with.”
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Probably the same people that used to have their PAs print out emails and present them to them in a memo folder for review.
“Miss Jones…the special folder…and don’t let anyone disturb me for thirty minutes.”
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“If there is a war, I will stand with you”, is a pledge of loyalty. And it stands in contrast to the Oath of Enlistment she took as a member of the USAF.
With her language skills, it seems like she had the potential to make a positive contribution.
Actually, foreign offices and defense departments do it all the time, and the policy is, in practice, often made by individuals (there is plenty of published history for this).
The US guarantees the security of Israel. It was the UK failure to honour its guarantee to Czechoslovakia that made Hitler think he could get away with things, and the UK honouring its pledge to Poland that brought it into the war.
The Secretary of State is an employee of the government. So, in effect, is the President. And do you really imagine that there are not CIA officers right now telling “moderate” militants in Syria “The US Government stands with you?”
Whereas this contractor is merely expressing a personal opinion; she is not employed by the US Government directly. That gives her less rather than more responsibility. You are deliberately trying to confuse her obvious use of the words “stand with” to mean something other than simply “support”.
I’m not arguing she has not done something criminal; there are times that everybody with a conscience may decide to break the law. But treasonous? Exposing concealment of bad behaviour at the heart of government is hardly treasonous.
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That explains a lot. Boys’ club, not near computers most of the time, probably not that sophisticated.
Dumb, but not surprising.
I’ve had ethics training that explains why we shouldn’t sleep with underage prostitutes in Thailand, even if it’s legal there.
I wasn’t using that faith in humanity anyway…
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you want mine? i quit using mine quite awhile ago…
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I’m pretty sure a tweet expressing the opinion of “I don’t agree with going to war with Iran” is far from a formal oath to take arms in support of a foreign nation.
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