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I can see where the Navy/Military/Government could compartmentalize a hack like this. How could a company like Apple or Amazon keep this under wraps? How could
by wil421 8y ago
I can see where the Navy/Military/Government could compartmentalize a hack like this. How could a company like Apple or Amazon keep this under wraps? How could they keep the knowledge of such a hack within the TS/SCI employees?
- smurfysmurf 8y agoThe cleared department is handled the same way as in the military in terms of security. Amazon has SCIF's etc. So unless a disgruntled employee steps forward who doesn't care about there life, I imagine its easily contained (and symptoms of an employee being disgruntled are highly monitored when they hold a clearance)
- wil421 8y agoI’m thinking about the non cleared data center folk, the sys admins and developers who use the servers for their applications. How do a bunch of Supermicro servers vanish wintout anyone noticing? I’d expect quite a few people would be involved that do not have any clearances. Apple is known for their secrecy but a few other companies named are not.
- darawk 8y agoMaybe they didn't remove them.
- user5994461 8y agoAt the scale their datacenter are, they must be replacing a full rack of servers every single day, just to follow a standard 3 years depreciation policy. Servers practically vanish every single day. Add a few more supermicro and it's not even noticeable. Business as usual.
- kevin_thibedeau 8y ago1) Everybody involved has agreed to keep secrets. 2) You compartmentalize everyone so nobody has the complete picture.
- smokeyj 8y agoVery easily, that's how https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alex_Stamos#Yahoo https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alex_Stamos#Yahoo!
- mabbo 8y agoI knew a dozen people working on Amazon Go for like 4 years before it launched. Not one person leaked, even internally, what the hell they were building. Just that it was awesome and I should come join their team. Somehow, Amazon is really good at keeping secrets.
- dubya123 8y agoIf it is classified and a cleared employee at Amazon/Apple/etc. blabbled there would be life altering consequences for them.
- creeble 8y agoThen there will be? As someone apparently/allegedly blabbed to Bloomberg? I say again to Bloomberg: picture (x-Ray) or it didn't happen.