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This is an issue as there is a large sigint site at the Truman Annex. Makes me think they are seeing what antennas and other items exist there watching Cuba. Maybe China has some interest in Cuba now? As far as sigint sites go, this one is the most accessible due to being the southern most point in the USA. We always had problems with tourist wandering up the beach and around the fence.


Venezuela as well? Basing that on suspected sigint flights near there lately:

https://twitter.com/Simon85205764/status/1221842394745884673...


Hard to walk up to an rc-135 in flight.


Was referring more to the fact that the rc135s are going to be plugged into that entire sigint network that is running out of Truman annex


True or not, you have my apathy and my down vote.*

* My memory says I spent way too much on an iPhone. My ego says that can't be true, and in the end memory yields. -nietzsche


The story incorrectly reports the company was hired for the trump campaign to do data work. As per https://youtu.be/yjn6wK01cqk?t=1878 only staff were hired.

edit: provide link, and clarify.


Fine, I will bite.

https://www.wired.com/story/what-did-cambridge-analytica-rea...

Cambridge worked both for the Trump campaign and a Trump-aligned Super PAC.

Cambridge Analytica was paid $5.9 million by the Trump campaign, according to Federal Election Commission filings

If you have a source that shows otherwise, please share.


5 Million was for ad buys on TV. The rest was just for support staff that actually were not employees of CA.


The Wired article says the rest went to "Oczkowski and his team". Oczkowski is CA's former head of product and worked there until April 2017.

Either way, I'm not sure the distinction you're making is very significant?


The statement that the stolen data was used for the campaign is contradicted by the interview link provided.


Ah, I see what you mean, yes: it's denied by the campaign manager.


In the immortal words of Mandy Rice-Davies, well, he would say that, wouldn’t he?


That's the evidence? Just because you want to believe it does not make it true.


I think the evidence is circumstantial but sufficient to warrant further investigation. CA harvested illegal data, used it in the Cruz campaign, lied about removing it and were then very involved in the presidential election, all within the span of a couple of years.

Parscape's denial is not in itself evidence, but I do agree with rsynnott that it's neither here nor there.


Specifically "which infamously used stolen Facebook data to target voters for President Donald Trump’s campaign in the 2016 U.S. election" from the article is inaccurate.


Won't be a "distro"... What do they think the D in OpenBSD stands for?


He's being Matriotic. He lives in a Motherland, not a Fatherland.


Yeah, the "it's secure as long as you don't use it for anything" gets old.


Also, OpenBSD is pledging the usespace really fast, such as Firefox and Chrome, among unveil.

Even mgba got patched.

I woudn't call that as "don't use it for anything".


Why would you want X on a OpenBSD server?


Security is not Boolean


By default you can only set two service settings: Enabling sshd, or not.

And sshd is, by default:

- not exploitable by this bug

- PF rules are not set for incoming connections

The X issue. By default:

- PF doesn't accept any connection to X ports to

anything not coming from lo0, localhost interface

Smtpd. By default:

- it just listens on localhost

- there is no forwarding

- PF rules aren't enabled


Show me, as the owner of the openbsd server, how to change the default configuration to suit a purpose that exceeds the very limited set of services enabled.


There have been many bugs in NetBSD code that are found and fixed. Quite often these bugs are in code shared with OpenBSD, but you never see them list it as such, as they import said fixes from NetBSD.

edited: make verb plural.


The marriage operator is always a source of fun like this. So named as it's the end of options, and the beginning of arguments.


Brutal.


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