Dаn̈ıel Раršlow 🥧 @pieist@social.cleverlibre.org

@rubenbolling He doubtless viewed Percival Dunwoody as a foreign infiltrator. After all, "the past is another country"

@slcw @barks Even hospitals do better than this. I've worked in medical informatics for large swathes of the last two decades. Patient data is very tightly controlled, and personnel can only see what they need to see. That our military and intelligence community can't do better than our cheap, profit-obsessed, cost-cutting private-sector hospitals is behond disgraceful.

@slcw @barks

Do you really imagine that all sensitive information goes into a single basket with a single classification, and a Massachusetts Air National Guard member IT person should reasonably have access to all of it? What did any of what was released have to do with the Massachusetts Air National Guard?

@barks @slcw As a supposition it's pretty famously untrue. i was at a talk by a former intelligence chief who talked about the dilemma faced by our intelligence partners:

If they don't share intelligence with us, they're cut out of a vital loop, but if they do, their intelligence will be dissipated into a vast and unguarded US public sector and discussed openly by first-year congressional aides brown-bagging their lunches in DC parks.

@slcw All of which skirts the core question: is our naive supposition even remotely true that restricted, highly sensitive information is actually restricted to the smallest possible set of carefully vetted personnel who actually have a need for it?

As a long time @eff supporter, I'm pretty disappointed in that they're yelling "conspiracy theory, fake news! Just plug your phone into any USB jack you find, it's always PERFECTLY SAFE"

No. AC adaptor USB chargers are tiny, cheap and we all have a box of them. Bring one.

Can the UK really still afford to maintain a bunch of rich, privileged, lazy assholes who serve no one's purposes but their own? But enough about the Conservative party, let's talk about the Royals.

"B-b-b-but he's a patriot!!!"

Why is it that right-wing radicals who openly seek to destroy at least some aspects of America are patriots, but left wing radicals of any stamp are the opposite?

When I see the sort of replies that high-follower-count people get in immense numbers, I'm really not envious. Imagine getting hundreds of these in response to *everything* you say:

[obvious, trite and/or massively redundant unpunctuated thing] lol

It'd set off my misanthropy something awful. In fact it does anyway.

@morgfair Let's not forget "economic anxiety". Also, "but we don't know why he did it!"

In other words, "the tens of thousands of people who have completely unwarranted access to highly sensitive information need to be more trustworthy" is not even remotely the correct problem statement.

Everyone's angry at what this 21 year old in the Air National Guard did. And that's certainly reasonable.

But as ever, the real problem is that he was able to do it.

@Popehat The host needs to be able and willing to do this.

@PJ_Evans @JamesGleick

The kind of lawyers still willing to work for him knowing that he never pays anyone, and are willing to be, or even used to being, a laughingstock.

For some reason I'm starting to notice a lot more native Douglas squirrels in my neighborhood. Wish I knew of a benign, best wildlife practices way to encourage them. Usually it's just the invasive gray squirrels.

@rubenbolling We couldn't afford toy guns so we had to make our own toy garroting wire and toy molotov cocktails. Kids nowadays.

@Amikke

@gpowerf Yeah, the virtue of Linux is not that you don't ever have to fix it. it's that you _can_ fix it. Though the amount of determination required might sometimes be off the scale.