CONGRATULATIONS TOMBOT

Very interesting, thank you.

btw I have had beers with this dude and he and I basically end up on the same page every day

http://www.guerilla-ciso.com/

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/08/07/AR2009080702805.html

lol

by "lol" I mean that I must refer you all to the office of public affairs for DHS at 202 282 8010 until what an official statement is made

I AM CURIOUS (RESIGNATION)

we're hiring again btw
http://bit.ly/7tRWgl

also my 1-year anniversary as a civil servant is this coming week. No longer a probie will I be! OTOH I'm going in Monday night for holiday overtime to do something that might help Haiti, or so I'm told.

I genuinely love my job. I never thought this could happen.

*applies for job*

*obtains much GS-14*

hey tom whats your take on this google/china thing

does it reveal fatal flaws in the cloud computing concept

also, i miss you

i love how max's brave facade just crumbled there

xo TB

MISSIN U

my take on the google china thing has changed daily since 1807 hrs last tuesday or whenever it flooded all the toilets

frankly after seven years of this business anybody who wants to play like reading somebody else's e-mail is evil/bad-ass shit is like a screamy homeless guy to me

I'm with the germans on this one (and btw US-CERT got there first in 2004)

yo Tombot, good to hear that you like being a govvie. I'm applying for some g5 positions right now.

(btw I am an Operating Thetan with +5 on any dice roll)

I'm with the germans on this one

From what era?

FIGHT THE POWER THAT IS TOMBOT

Hmmm... The IT Specialist position has "many vacancies." It would be nice to work with El Tomboto.

more like bates motel vacancy amirite, hi tom :)

DUDES

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/27/books/27book.html

MICHIKO KAKUTANI'S FUCKING BYLINE SHOWED UP IN MY WORK E-MAIL WHAT THE FUCK
SHOULD I REPLY-ALL WITH THE MCSWEENEY'S PIECE

declare cyberwar on the offices of the ny times

what mcsweeney's piece?

Think it's this one: http://www.mcsweeneys.net/1999/01/23michiko.html

One night Fred asked me if I was coming out with him and Peter for late night hot tuna grinders.

^greatest line

TOMBOT

DO NOT, I REPEAT DO NOT REVEAL YOURSELF AS INTERESTING AT WORK

THAT WAY LIES GREAT SADNESS

Blackouts hit New York, Los Angeles, Washington and more than 100 other American cities. Subways crash. Trains derail. Airplanes fall from the sky.

Gas pipelines explode. Chemical plants release clouds of toxic chlorine. Banks lose all their data. Weather and communication satellites spin out of their orbits.

JFK! BLOWN AWAY! WHAT ELSE DO I HAVE TO SAY!

I love that it's all "This may sound like a stupid Bruce Willis film with Bruce Willis in it, but I've just read it in a BOOK."

"This might sound like a takeoff on the 2007 Bruce Willis 'Die Hard' movie, a franchise which has graced the Sony Playstation 2 and the Microsoft Xbox, which has been compared with Justin Beiber in its hold on the American imagination, and which simply outmuscles rival films such as 2003's Bad Boys II starring Martin Lawrence and Will Smith (is this enough SEO juice yet?) (Ed: yes)"

I don't know that I can actually name 100 other american cities, anyway

I mean there's only 32 football teams

dammit I was about to start typing out 100 other US cities before realizing "wait, crazy OCD"

haha I was confused and thought michiko kakutani had personally e-mailed your office

Only Michiko tells the tough truth.

this line has such a wonderful cadence

So why do I have a feeling he was behind this?

http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2010/07/solve-the-mystery-code-in-cyber-commands-logo

too bad he won't see the Plame-Wilson movie I went to last night! wd love to hear the takedown.

How much lulzsec-type crap have you had to deal with, or used the opportunity to point out to idiotic higher-ups the need for evolved procedures?

TOMBOT SIGNAL TO ALL BOSTON PEEPS: I AM IN YOUR AREA NEXT WEEK, TUESDAY THROUGH MOSTLY THURSDAY

(this mainly: http://ieee-hst.org/ - but also some other things that DHS is putting on at BU and environs that I just found out about)

please to holler

sad face

this is our thread yo --> Boston -- Classic or Dirty Water?

yeah, boston is kinda lame. plus, geeta is in london. no, wait, she's in berlin. no, wait, she's in stockholm. kinda jealous that you get to catch plenary speaker mark s. borkowski, the assistant commissioner of the office of technology innovation and acquisition, u.s. customs and border protection. he hardly ever tours anymore and he never seems to make it to my neck of the woods.

el tomboto, i would be in-o.

yeah!

i agree w/yeah

btw dude are you actually going to be in waltham? is that where youre staying?

DOOD I MISSED THIS

WEDNESDAY WOULD BE AWESOME PARTIES TIMES

Wednesday would be good!

just nobody spill what you're #occupying next

#OCCUPYBAR

Sadface that I can't be there. (I always say this.)