woodytrombone

u/woodytrombone@lemmy.world
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I'll take my downvotes. No, I don't think he is.

I think if he were, he'd have

  • limited his disclosure to the programs he had an actual issue with
  • at least attempted the normal whistleblower procedure through OGC
  • gathered his data by social engineering staff in specific projects and not anyone he could in his office

Personally, my profile of Snowden is someone who has a large ego and lashed out because he was a small fish in a large NSA pond. The "whistleblower" story was generated by propagandists to encourage copycats by digging through the massive disclosures and finding one or two uncomfortable things to latch on to. Snowden played along because he had to; he was now at the mercy of U.S. adversaries to give him safe harbor.

on I choose violence · c/historymemes · 5 pts · 184d

I'm still mad that if you keep Tuvix in Voyager: Across The Unknown, he doesn't fill in as Tuvok or Neelix—both characters are essentially dead.

It's my job to know what's going on and even I don't know!

Seems wild that they're validating parking like that. Either the hospital is crazy overreliant on Stryker systems, or their IT department has a stupidly restrictive "ransomware event" playbook that they're following to their own peril.

Apparently all of EPIC was down for the whole country.

Health plan cyber threat intelligence chiming in—I couldn't verify this claim. Epic's EHR was unaffected unless the provider/hospital's connection was handled by an affected Stryker "network bridge" (quotes because I'm not totally certain of the architecture here).

EDIT: But this was the first I heard of Epic being impacted, which is valuable intel. Thank you, and hope you feel better!

EDIT 2: Best I can tell, Stryker's relationship to Epic is that it's a data source for a few things that may be relayed to Epic, not any kind of network backbone. Stryker supports a lot of surgical equipment, so maybe that's why folks like you getting a procedure are being paper charted.

Boardgaming!

I own a modest company collection, run weekly boardgame nights, and demo boardgames at conventions for a large publisher. It helped me meet a lot of fantastic people. Boardgamers are some of the coolest nerds out there.

on G.O.R.P. · c/memes · 9 pts · 290d

It's the size of the raisin baby inside you.