In message <CAOxD=zU=i2UMEdLixOOnqYW-3cF9RDFF4eN+KJG_sDcwDip_7A@mail.gmail.com> Tyler Mills <tylermills@gmail.com> wrote:
This is the government... you have to put on your bizarro-economics and bizarro-ethics glasses for the State to make sense.
It does not operate like a market. Failure results in people being shuffled around, and larger budgets. Failure justifies more control and power. People get taken down for political reasons, not based on a lack of ability or lack of virtue.
I would hope this measure succeeds and to see something meaningful come out of it, I just don't see it happening.
Thanks for your support. And yes, I agree that most probably nothing will come of this, but it is worth a try. Consider this, if even just one out of every forty (1/40) of the affected 4+ million (now hopefully pissed off) federal workers signs this petition then it will get past the 100,000 signature point and then the Whitehouse will HAVE to respond to it. Of course, even in that case, the WH might very well just put off their response, you know, until that proverbial "cold day in hell"... just as they have done, and continue to do, with the "Pardon Snowden" petition... however as it that case, their mere lack of response... basically ignoring their own rules which they made for themselves relating to these petitions... would itself call more attention to their utter failure, not only to prevent such breaches, but to even deal with them in a sensible way afterwards. (If this utterly unqualified ethnic-checkbox woman had done this in the private sector, there's no doubt that her ass would be out the door already. As far as I have been able to tell in my limited research, she never managed _anything_ in her life before being named as the head of OPM... not even a Denny's... with the only possible exception being that she may have managed some portion of the President's re-election campaign.) Regards, rfg P.S. I just learned that the story on this breach is even worse than I already thought it was when I started the petition. From ArsTechnica: http://arstechnica.com/security/2015/06/encryption-would-not-have-helped-at-... ... A consultant who did some work with a company contracted by OPM to manage personnel records for a number of agencies told Ars that he found the Unix systems administrator for the project "was in Argentina and his co-worker was physically located in the [People's Republic of China]. Both had direct access to every row of data in every database: they were root. Another team that worked with these databases had at its head two team members with PRC passports. I know that because I challenged them personally and revoked their privileges. From my perspective, OPM compromised this information more than three years ago and my take on the current breach is 'so what's new?'" Un-bleeping believable! There's nothing else that I can say about the quote above... at least nothing else that I can say in polite company.