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For those unaware, the "SSL Added and removed here!" image is a reference to a diagram describing unencrypted communications between Google datacenters that lea

For those unaware, the "SSL Added and removed here!" image is a reference to a diagram describing unencrypted communications between Google datacenters that leaked from the NSA in 2013 [1]. [1] https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2013/10/new-docs-show-nsa-taps-google-yahoo-data-center-links/ https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2013/10/new-docs-show-ns...

_fat_santa 1y ago
It’s so funny so see a top secret label below what’s clearly a hastily scribbled diagram
- pyfon 1y ago
  Looks like a design interview round
- RestartKernel 1y ago
  I am convinced [1] most people can fall into handling anything with levity. You see the same thing happening in the medical field, and undoubtedly in more macabre organisations as well (see WW2 testimonies, for example). [1] Unsourced learned experience, consider with a grain of salt.
jsheard 1y ago
That :¬) face makes for a great custom emote in security-related channels.
- indrora 1y ago
  Have a horizontal copy: ˙ ͜ʟ˙
encom 1y ago
>SSL Added and removed here! And CloudFlare!
- lillecarl 1y ago
  I know Cloudflare used to support unencrypted backends, but they encourage SSL on the origin machine too. It might be with a Cloudflare signed "origin cert" but it's SSL either way
easterncalculus 1y ago
Once I had a professor who had a top secret clearance and did some government work. He couldn't reference this because it's never been unclassified. But in one of his courses, he had an image of these two circles aligned just like this when discussing a relevant topic, and I don't know if anyone in my section picked up on it.
CobrastanJorji 1y ago
Still kind of insane to think about the US government using underwater submarines or something to hack into the communications of US companies to spy on Americans and that not being, like, a bigger deal in 2013.
- coldpie 1y ago
  The hesitance around that time to prosecute political leaders who were obviously breaking the law is, I think, a big part of what lead to our current era of political leaders who are now, in effect, entirely above the law. James Clapper's "not wittingly" testimony[1], where he plainly and purposely lied under oath during a congressional hearing and received zero consequences, is another example where we showed we will not hold political leaders accountable for their actions. It became clear during that decade that the law has no teeth, so why should political leaders not break the law at every opportunity if it serves them? And here we are. [1] https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2013/07/02/198118060/clapper-apologizes-for-answer-on-nsas-data-collection https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2013/07/02/198118060...
  - canuckintime 1y ago
    Watergate Iran-Contragate Iraq yellow cake So many examples.
conradev 1y ago
I used to have that as a shirt, but I think I lost it: https://philkast.com/2013/10/30/spying-tshirt.html https://philkast.com/2013/10/30/spying-tshirt.html

_fat_santa 1y ago

It’s so funny so see a top secret label below what’s clearly a hastily scribbled diagram

pyfon 1y ago
Looks like a design interview round
RestartKernel 1y ago
I am convinced [1] most people can fall into handling anything with levity. You see the same thing happening in the medical field, and undoubtedly in more macabre organisations as well (see WW2 testimonies, for example). [1] Unsourced learned experience, consider with a grain of salt.

jsheard 1y ago

That :¬) face makes for a great custom emote in security-related channels.

indrora 1y ago
Have a horizontal copy: ˙ ͜ʟ˙

encom 1y ago

>SSL Added and removed here! And CloudFlare!

lillecarl 1y ago
I know Cloudflare used to support unencrypted backends, but they encourage SSL on the origin machine too. It might be with a Cloudflare signed "origin cert" but it's SSL either way

easterncalculus 1y ago

Once I had a professor who had a top secret clearance and did some government work. He couldn't reference this because it's never been unclassified. But in one of his courses, he had an image of these two circles aligned just like this when discussing a relevant topic, and I don't know if anyone in my section picked up on it.

CobrastanJorji 1y ago

Still kind of insane to think about the US government using underwater submarines or something to hack into the communications of US companies to spy on Americans and that not being, like, a bigger deal in 2013.

coldpie 1y ago
The hesitance around that time to prosecute political leaders who were obviously breaking the law is, I think, a big part of what lead to our current era of political leaders who are now, in effect, entirely above the law. James Clapper's "not wittingly" testimony[1], where he plainly and purposely lied under oath during a congressional hearing and received zero consequences, is another example where we showed we will not hold political leaders accountable for their actions. It became clear during that decade that the law has no teeth, so why should political leaders not break the law at every opportunity if it serves them? And here we are. [1] https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2013/07/02/198118060/clapper-apologizes-for-answer-on-nsas-data-collection https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2013/07/02/198118060...
- canuckintime 1y ago
  Watergate Iran-Contragate Iraq yellow cake So many examples.

conradev 1y ago

I used to have that as a shirt, but I think I lost it: https://philkast.com/2013/10/30/spying-tshirt.html https://philkast.com/2013/10/30/spying-tshirt.html