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tombot what would the DoD do if the president ordered it to cease planning for/wasting money on climate change? just ignore it?

mookieproof, Wednesday, 10 October 2018 23:09 (five years ago) link

Like squeezing jello. I’m challenged to think of the right wording of the order that would have to come down to make the entire defense apparatus pivot towards spending more money on fuel instead of spending less

El Tomboto, Wednesday, 10 October 2018 23:23 (five years ago) link

especially since Mattis has a DEPSECDEF who has made a priority of running an actual audit of DoD expenditures

El Tomboto, Wednesday, 10 October 2018 23:27 (five years ago) link

Has anything really changed since this? https://taskandpurpose.com/mattis-pentagon-ignoring-trumps-mandate-treat-climate-change-hoax/

Elvis Telecom, Thursday, 11 October 2018 00:01 (five years ago) link

ah, ty

mookieproof, Thursday, 11 October 2018 00:05 (five years ago) link

Tombot is this bad or expected or both https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/10/us/politics/hackers-pentagon-weapons-systems.html

𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Thursday, 11 October 2018 00:13 (five years ago) link

both and also the GAO is fond of completely ignoring defense-in-depth practices whenever they do an infused audit

PS the GAO's in-house daycare is called "tiny findings" which I love

El Tomboto, Thursday, 11 October 2018 01:36 (five years ago) link

infosec audit, that is - fuck you, autocorrect

El Tomboto, Thursday, 11 October 2018 01:37 (five years ago) link

“tiny findings”

i love that

the late great, Thursday, 11 October 2018 02:54 (five years ago) link

eight months pass...

say i've found a procurement on https://www.fpds.gov/ that i'd like to know more details about. i have an "Award ID" and "Referenced IDV ID". is there some way i can read the original call for proposals, or winning bid? or just anything more than a bunch of mailing addresses and vendor identifies?

𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Friday, 28 June 2019 21:08 (four years ago) link

Have you tried ducking around on fedbizopps.gov?

El Tomboto, Saturday, 29 June 2019 14:57 (four years ago) link

They archive a lot of stuff there IIRC

El Tomboto, Saturday, 29 June 2019 14:57 (four years ago) link

five months pass...

Tombot, I have been reading this book and was wondering if you have as well, or have any thoughts on the events documented


https://www.amazon.com/Sandworm-Cyberwar-Kremlins-Dangerous-Hackers/dp/0385544405

babu frik fan account (mh), Friday, 27 December 2019 21:05 (four years ago) link

I have the book but haven’t cracked it. The part where Rob Lee from Dragos finagled a sample of the malware from ESET so he could get the scoop on them has already generated some controversy in “the community”

El Tomboto, Wednesday, 1 January 2020 22:49 (four years ago) link

tombot will you ever do some new cartoons of ilx posts

imago, Thursday, 2 January 2020 00:46 (four years ago) link

I no longer have a boring job where I can get away with using Visio to put word bubble captions on top of carefully curated internet images for most of the day. That presents a significant barrier to my creative process.

El Tomboto, Thursday, 2 January 2020 00:52 (four years ago) link

alas! i liked those

imago, Thursday, 2 January 2020 01:28 (four years ago) link

This revive has caused my 2020s to begin on a very sad and happy note. I can’t believe this thread has almost a thousand answers. And I hate, hate, hate nostalgia.

El Tomboto, Thursday, 2 January 2020 06:21 (four years ago) link

what up son happy new year you old fart

beef richards (Mr. Que), Thursday, 2 January 2020 13:44 (four years ago) link

I apologize for asking that and then promptly _forgetting to bookmark the thread_ leading me to believe my question was not addressed!

I feel like the internal politics of the analysis/CVE community was mostly left out of the text, probably for the better.

babu frik fan account (mh), Friday, 3 January 2020 15:20 (four years ago) link

what up son happy new year you old fart


You too buddy. I hope things are going awesome for you. We’ll always have Blade Runner!

El Tomboto, Saturday, 4 January 2020 02:05 (four years ago) link


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