Location: New York City (NYC), New York (Manhattan)
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Email: adam at heller.photo
About: Been doing embedded Android/Linux C++ for the past ~5 years (user space, mainly middleware and C++ web stack, decent amount of kernel work and standalone binaries in C, written / updated several company apps for Android). Looking to move into a senior role, leveraging my leadership experience in the military, and or pure Android development. Options in the embedded space are pretty slim in NYC and I feel Android would be a better way forward. Open to cleared positions, active clearance.
(Just FYI I don't know if I could put a source / article on this, but this information was information that Robert Hanssen allegedly leaked to the Russians [Aldrich Ames also leaked similar things and a lot of the same HUMINT sources]. I initially read this in a Robert Hanssen non-fic book a while ago)
Apparently, during the construction of the embassy in (edit: Moscow) -East Berlin-, the construction company (surely at the direction of the KGB / GRU) placed passive bugs in the concrete (they only transmit when blasted with microwaves at the right frequency and would avoid counter-intel sweeps unless active). They built the buildings almost pre-fab style, laying the concrete out then assembiling it. It's then when the bugs were placed.
The west eventually learned about this, if I recall correctly, it was from a Russian defector by the codename of Mother.
It was called Operation Top Hat (that's where i'd start googiling). The US knew the embassy in (edit: Moscow) -East Berlin- was bugged on the first 3 floors by the Russians as well as having secret hollow support columns with clandestine access to the building. The decision was made to just not use the first 3 floors of the embassy for classified discussion. The remaining floors were built by Americans and undoubtedly under FBI/OGA watch.
IIRC there was also a network of tunnels leading from the embassy in West Berlin to under the wall to listening posts.
Untrue. There's a newer format for NAV data -- CNAV. It's currently broadcast on the L2 and L5 bands, and does indeed include a larger week number field -- 13 bits to be exact.
I was at this event. Marilee was seated directly in front of my girlfriend and I (the stage / panel and the back of Marilee's head pictured: https://imgur.com/a/GEapw). The interruptions were real. I was one of the men in Marilee's facebook post making comments about the sexism. Immediately following Marilee's comment, the entire place erupted with applause. On the way out, several people asked my GF if she was the one who made the comment, with one person saying "That was the most important thing to happen here today".
I'm an ex Army bomb technician, let me help you.
You know WMDs were found in Iraq right? ..Unless we're not calling stockpiled chemical weapons WMDs anymore.
This does not increase my confidence or trust in abstract assurances from intelligence agencies.
> In five of six incidents in which troops were wounded by chemical agents, the munitions appeared to have been designed in the United States, manufactured in Europe and filled in chemical agent production lines built in Iraq by Western companies.
I understand why that might superficially decrease you trust in the claims, but consider the perspective of the totalitarian trying to spin up a chemical weapons program. Wouldn't leveraging existing expertise and contractors be a good way to get the weapons you wanted? Why wouldn't a dictator hire outsiders to build weapons?
Having his experts check them for traps after the construction sounds much cheaper than building his own design teams.
We knew that Iraq had WMDs because a number of western countries sold them some a few decades ago to drop on Iran on our behalf. That's not a secret, and if I recall correctly they were tightly secured and probably degraded to the point of ineffectiveness by that point. The claim that justified invasion was that they had new chemical weapons programs, and that seems to be categorically untrue and without evidence.
It's not that simple. Saddam was trying to make it look to his neighbors (especially Iran) that he had WMDs. Recall that this is very shortly after the end of the decade-long Iran-Iraq war. He wanted to be very convincing, so as to make his neighbors unwilling to oppose him.
At the same time, he was telling the US, "Who, me? I don't have any WMDs." Which made him look like a two-faced liar. The "evidence" that he wanted his neighbors to see convinced Washington.
I'm thinking at worst our intelligence agencies were intentionally looking the other way during a time period when Saddam was in favor with the US - and at best they missed it and did not stop the weapon assembly at the time...
I'm a pixel xl 128 owner too. As long as we're going down this route, has anyone else noticed weird 'refresh' lines drawing over top of images? They appear very briefly and very faintly (and only in chrome as far as I've noticed, may be a chrome(ium) bug).
Woah! To clarify, when digging up filler for the Hescos, PMN was present in the area the filler was taken from and thus made their way into the Hescos?
I was/(am?) a bomb tech, I didn't dig up a damn thing, we were too highly valued of an asset..And only having a small handful of us to support an entire theater of war makes us exceedingly rare.
Got called out on quite a few. One in particular was a dude out at a COP in the middle of no where Farah, taking a piss next to a Hesco, looked up and saw a mine poking out of the barrier. Afghanistan is one of the most heavily mined countries in the world. It's not surprising.
Yes this was not uncommon, all kinds of shit was put into hescos. Unless an area was specifically swept for mines (time consuming, expensive and labor intensive) it was usually randomly selected topsoil.
