nixonnixoff.bsky.social
Chief Research Officer @ Unit 221B
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Summary after digesting it:
-Guilty plea with no bargain. Wants to go home to dad
-Gov says LOL NO. Spills tea. Hints more charges
What is his defense atty smoking?
I can't wait for the next episode of "feds release enormous pent up energy on this guy"
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Wagenius shakes / secrets slip through trembling hands / dark fate marches close
Wagenius cold hands / secrets spilled like broken glass / footsteps grow closer
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the meme has already been made (i stole this from someone else)
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the goods:
storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
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Guys it's not classified
bsky.app/profile/pwna...
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That's so cool please share when it's done. Spy satellites are so fucking cool
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All I know about them is they donated some spy satellites to NASA to point away from earth for once, so they're cool and I hope they don't get destroyed.
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Is this stuff that would be public somewhere else anyways? I don't really understand whats going on and am only curious because people are mad
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I honestly have no idea if this information is supposed to be classified or public and I'm not trying to spread outrage. Maybe it's public somewhere and I don't know. I just think this is interesting to explore
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"National Reconnaissance Office"🔥
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"Defense Contract Management Agency" 🥱
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I suspect that the more their salary graph doesn't look like a normal distribution, the spicier the agency
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There are other spicy agencies on the doge website like the "missile defense agency" which also has tons of people in one specific high pay band and not that many people you need to headshot to destroy their institutional memory. Cool.
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Oh neat if you hit download you get even more info. "detailed-dc_employee_count" is a number separate from "detailed-employee_count". I wonder if it's how many employees are stationed in DC.
Also "aggregated-telework_eligible_count", which wasn't that many. Cant make spy satellites at home.
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A whole lot of NRO employees are in a really specific pay band. I wonder what that means. People don't get paid that much without training and they sure do have a lot of them.
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Sorry about that and thank you
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Thanks! We hunt bad people and have been asking @kathryntewson.bsky.social to pass you the very strange CSAM related questions. Products are often built without taking into account the bad side of the Internet and I never knew if it was lack of knowledge or lack of care. Thank you for caring.
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It's also more than a little concerning that the 11th hour turnaround is the result of lacking information and not callousness towards users as many believed. It shouldn't fall on you to flag this. So get that raise, because you're doing two jobs, and there is concerning failure upstream of you. TY
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I hold on to hope that "All Lawyers v Microsoft" will be filed
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If they don't allow an off switch, I wonder if training Copilot on racist content and porn will trigger an off switch via other means. Can someone find out
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The most shocking revelation is that Microsoft got this far without listening to any of its professional users. What kind of broken culture and feedback loops resulted in this outcome? Will the 1 guy who wasn't a yes man be rewarded or punished?
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Props to the Microsoft PR guy for being a champ and actually listening. Sadly this means we won't see the funniest lawsuit ever: "All Lawyers v Microsoft"
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Hopefully this influences sentencing for future cybercriminals.
The docs:
www.courtlistener.com/docket/68357...
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Add me on RedNote. I cant figure out how to post but if the chinese government can help me out a little, I'll give them an iris scan or something for their troubles. Offer's open
www.xiaohongshu.com/user/profile...
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You're saying this on a platform whos entire existence is owed to people's choice to leave other platforms
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The uninformed risks happen when people give their data to american companies for actual sensitive things, not social media garbage, and chinese gov hackers steal it.
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There are no concerns about tiktok or rednote that don't exist with other apps, and the completely arbitrary nature of this ban reveals the scam.
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No. People have the right to give their data to whoever they want. Politicians are using this as a false pretense to steal a company. The biggest problems have always been when chinese gov hackers break into American entities and violate that free choice made by the user.
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Also i have never used tiktok so i don't care if it exists. I just know a scam when i see one. Dont fall for it, friends.
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The people who do real work anymore are getting laid off and budgets cut. I know people who are unemployed 1 year+. Cybersecurity skills shortage my ass.
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People who download tiktok or rednote are making a choice. People who handed their data over to ATNT, OPM, Anthem, etc, did not make a choice and that data is more sensitive than cat videos. Those thefts are used as pretense for banning tiktok. They don't care about the real problem one bit.