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posted by takyon on Sunday April 26 2015, @11:25PM   Printer-friendly
from the cold-cyberwar dept.

From Ars Technica:

On Saturday the New York Times reported that "senior American officials briefed on the investigation" confirmed a hack of the White House's unclassified network last year. The breach "was far more intrusive and worrisome than has been publicly acknowledged," officials said, telling the Times that the perpetrators were likely Russians with ties to the government, if not with direct backing from Russia.

The White House's classified network, on which message traffic from President Obama's Blackberry is kept, was not breached, but e-mails he sent to the unclassified network from that device (as well as e-mails sent from that network to him) were obtained.

The Times noted that many senior staffers have two computers in their offices: "one operating on a highly secure classified network and another connected to the outside world for unclassified communications." The most highly secure material shared between "the White House, the State Department, the Pentagon, and intelligence communities" is kept on a system called Joint Worldwide Intelligence Communications System (JWICS), which was not breached. JWICS also gives access to the front-end for XKeyscore, a system that collects, manages, and processes the massive amounts of data collected by the NSA.

The White House discovered the breach in October 2014 and partially shut down the unclassified e-mail system until the end of the month when system administrators were sure that the hackers no longer had access to the system.

 
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  • (Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Tuesday April 28 2015, @03:33PM

    by Runaway1956 (2926) Subscriber Badge on Tuesday April 28 2015, @03:33PM (#176105) Journal

    Somehow - Brown got halfway through the window of the police cruiser. Now - you can believe, if you like, that the cop PULLED Brown into the cruiser, so that he could shoot Brown. But, the idea is so preposterous that I won't even entertain the idea. What happened was, Brown DOVE through that window, and tried to subdue the cop, tried to take the cop's gun. When the gun went off, Brown ran. After several steps running, Brown turned around, and instead of conforming to the cop's demands, he RAN BACK AT THE COP!!

    Oh, the store owner says he was never robbed? Then, WTF did he file a police report? WHY DID HE CALL THE COPS?!?!?!

    Someone is smoking some baaaad, baaaad, BAAAAAAAAAAAD shit here - and it ain't me.

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  • (Score: 2) by urza9814 on Tuesday April 28 2015, @05:01PM

    by urza9814 (3954) on Tuesday April 28 2015, @05:01PM (#176151) Journal

    Oh, the store owner says he was never robbed? Then, WTF did he file a police report? WHY DID HE CALL THE COPS?!?!?!

    He didn't. A customer called the cops to report they *thought* they saw someone shoplifting. Just like so many of the others...

    Somehow - Brown got halfway through the window of the police cruiser. Now - you can believe, if you like, that the cop PULLED Brown into the cruiser, so that he could shoot Brown. But, the idea is so preposterous that I won't even entertain the idea. What happened was, Brown DOVE through that window, and tried to subdue the cop, tried to take the cop's gun. When the gun went off, Brown ran. After several steps running, Brown turned around, and instead of conforming to the cop's demands, he RAN BACK AT THE COP!!

    Even if all of that is true, it still does not warrant extrajudicial execution after the fact. If he had been killed hanging out the cop car window I'd say you might have a point, but he wasn't. Wilson had plenty of other options. On the other hand, officer Wilson justifies the killing by saying that he began firing at Brown when Brown was 15 feet away. He claims Brown was "charging" towards him until he stopped firing. We have audio recordings of those shots showing that Wilson fired ten shots over 6.5 seconds. So Brown was apparently "charging" at 1-2MPH? "Charging" at half the speed of a painfully slow walk? Also remember that they didn't even call an ambulance after he was shot....