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I'd like to think OPM employees are reading this headline and thinking "Yeah we'll see!" The entirety of federal government SF-86s being dumped to a foreign go

by YCode 9y ago

I'd like to think OPM employees are reading this headline and thinking "Yeah we'll see!" The entirety of federal government SF-86s being dumped to a foreign government has diplomatic and economic repercussions that will last for decades.

KGIII 9y ago
I got some credit monitoring and a form letter. My data was lost in the OPM hack. I came to post pretty much the same thing. Worst? For whom?
- goialoq 9y ago
  "Lost"? It was saved in globally distributed backup!
  - KGIII 9y ago
    That's a very positive outlook. Maybe it was just the governments way of initiating a distributed file sharing service? By strange coincidence, the missus was saying that she needed another drive to backup more photos. I told her she didn't need to, the NSA already has them archived. She did not see the humor.
Balgair 9y ago
To clarify the OP's acronyms: OPM: Office of Personnel Management, where all the 'blackmail' files for cleared gov employees and contractors are stored, in addition to many other more mundane functions. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Office_of_Personnel_Management_data_breach https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Office_of_Personnel_Management... DoD: Department of Defense, but this also refers to contractors in places like Lockheed and other smaller contrating firms. SF-86: Standard Form #86, the form that must be completed to gain any kind of clearance with the gov. These clearance processes can run into the $20k+ range, though not usually, as they have to send agents out to talk to people to verify the applicant. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Standard_Form_86 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Standard_Form_86 https://news.clearancejobs.com/2017/05/31/serious-penalties-falsifying-sf-86/ https://news.clearancejobs.com/2017/05/31/serious-penalties-... The 2015 data breach of the OPM was a BIG deal in the security clearance world, as it seems all the blackmail files were stolen. The a large issue was that the OPM worked on an entirely separate internet that the gov built, as in they had totally different wires and cables and everything, very expensive. How this happened is yet to be released AFAIK. Also, many people were trusting the gov with their darkest secrets, so as to be un-blackmail-able by others. Now, the gov is not so trustworthy and this then throws a huge wrench into all of the processes, including retention of employees and recruitment of new ones.
- YCode 9y ago
  Thanks; I also had to double back and change DoD to the more accurate "federal government", which includes other branches that used OPM services.
  - Balgair 9y ago
    No worries! Thanks for putting this up. This Equifax issue is a big deal, for sure, but the OPM was too. In general, these breaches are just getting bigger and worse as time goes on. There has been a lot of talk about the CyberWar, and if there is one going on, it seems that the US is not winning it very well.
- herewulf 9y ago
  As part of the DoD I generated my SF 86 with e-QIP and sent it to my S2 but he needed the S1 to get some PII out of SIDPERS which required a DA 4187 to send to the G1 but I couldn't sign it with my CAC because the NIPR is down and the TACSAT is deadlined so for now my TS/SCI is MIA. .. And I could go on. Yes, we love our acronyms.

by YCode 9y ago

KGIII 9y ago

I got some credit monitoring and a form letter. My data was lost in the OPM hack. I came to post pretty much the same thing. Worst? For whom?

goialoq 9y ago
"Lost"? It was saved in globally distributed backup!
- KGIII 9y ago
  That's a very positive outlook. Maybe it was just the governments way of initiating a distributed file sharing service? By strange coincidence, the missus was saying that she needed another drive to backup more photos. I told her she didn't need to, the NSA already has them archived. She did not see the humor.

Balgair 9y ago

To clarify the OP's acronyms: OPM: Office of Personnel Management, where all the 'blackmail' files for cleared gov employees and contractors are stored, in addition to many other more mundane functions. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Office_of_Personnel_Management_data_breach https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Office_of_Personnel_Management... DoD: Department of Defense, but this also refers to contractors in places like Lockheed and other smaller contrating firms. SF-86: Standard Form #86, the form that must be completed to gain any kind of clearance with the gov. These clearance processes can run into the $20k+ range, though not usually, as they have to send agents out to talk to people to verify the applicant. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Standard_Form_86 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Standard_Form_86 https://news.clearancejobs.com/2017/05/31/serious-penalties-falsifying-sf-86/ https://news.clearancejobs.com/2017/05/31/serious-penalties-... The 2015 data breach of the OPM was a BIG deal in the security clearance world, as it seems all the blackmail files were stolen. The a large issue was that the OPM worked on an entirely separate internet that the gov built, as in they had totally different wires and cables and everything, very expensive. How this happened is yet to be released AFAIK. Also, many people were trusting the gov with their darkest secrets, so as to be un-blackmail-able by others. Now, the gov is not so trustworthy and this then throws a huge wrench into all of the processes, including retention of employees and recruitment of new ones.

YCode 9y ago
Thanks; I also had to double back and change DoD to the more accurate "federal government", which includes other branches that used OPM services.
- Balgair 9y ago
  No worries! Thanks for putting this up. This Equifax issue is a big deal, for sure, but the OPM was too. In general, these breaches are just getting bigger and worse as time goes on. There has been a lot of talk about the CyberWar, and if there is one going on, it seems that the US is not winning it very well.
herewulf 9y ago
As part of the DoD I generated my SF 86 with e-QIP and sent it to my S2 but he needed the S1 to get some PII out of SIDPERS which required a DA 4187 to send to the G1 but I couldn't sign it with my CAC because the NIPR is down and the TACSAT is deadlined so for now my TS/SCI is MIA. .. And I could go on. Yes, we love our acronyms.