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What are the security implications of this action? For example, when the Valerie Plame was outed by Karl Rove/Scooter Libby, it was clear that a group of compa
by r00fus 7y ago
What are the security implications of this action? For example, when the Valerie Plame was outed by Karl Rove/Scooter Libby, it was clear that a group of companies/networks were immediately compromised.
Does this current action have immediate repercussions?
- kposehn 7y agoYep! The main thing is not wanted to show potential adversaries the extent of your capabilities. It also allows them to glean information on how to counter the newly disclosed capability as well. For example: If this was a satellite, the specific one is almost certainly outed. Satellites are tracked constantly and by the angle of the photo and approximate time you should be able to figure out where in the sky it was and what satellites were in orbit. With that you now know to not do anything when those are present. If Iran isn’t capable of doing that sort of analysis, certainly every other major power in the world is. Frankly, I’m betting it was the X-37B or a previously unknown spy satellite hiding in plain sight as a commercial satellite.
- baybal2 7y agoAll spy satellites are revealed by their orbit, and x37 doesn't seem to be one as it flies way to high up
- jarfil 7y agoWith so many satellites up there, I'd be surprised if you could find any moment, anywhere on Earth, long enough that you could do something remotely important without several satellites being able to see you at the same time. They might be focusing on something else, or you might be hiding under a roof, but other than that if they want to see you, they'll see you.
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- casefields 7y agoThe president is ultimate authority to declassify anything he so chooses: https://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2017/may/16/james-risch/does-president-have-ability-declassify-anything-an/ https://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2017/may...
- lisper 7y agoSure. But just because it wasn't illegal doesn't mean it wasn't stupid.
- marshray 7y agoAgree this was not appropriate for the specific post it was in reply to. But notice how much of the discussion here does involve terms like "classified" or "cleared for public release".
- geofft 7y agoClassification / clearing has two parts: the technical classification status, and the social process of what gets classified/declassified, how, and why. If I delete a production VM at my job, zero part of the postmortem will involve figuring out why I had access to do so. I have root on all our hypervisors, of course I have access to do so. That doesn't answer the question of why I did so, whether I knew it was a production VM, whether our standard tools should have safety checks (even if I can muck around with ssh and virsh), etc.
- geggam 7y agoWhy is this downvoted? It is factual. Just because you dont like the president ?
- geofft 7y agoBecause it doesn't answer the question. "What are the implications of running rm -rf as root" is not answered by "root is allowed to run rm -rf".