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Re: bloomberg on supermicro: sky is falling


From: valdis.kletnieks () vt edu
Date: Thu, 04 Oct 2018 17:24:43 -0400

On Thu, 04 Oct 2018 14:10:07 -0700, "Scott Weeks" said:

Classified networks do not connect to other networks unless
they are equally or higher classified.  No internet connection.
Period.

Well, if your classified network is connecting to a higher classified net, then
*that* network is connecting to a lower classified net, right?

That, plus I think the Snowden escapade was ample proof that security rules
will get bent when needed to get work done - it turned out that Snowden was
able to walk off with terabytes of data because security restrictions had been
disabled because they were putting a crimp in the analysts' style...


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