Another record setting day here in Seattle. The previous record high for today was 93°F (34°C) back in the ancient times of 2010. It will be 95°F (35°C) today. We typed a record yesterday and broke one two days ago. The average high for today is 75°F (24°C).
Stay cool. Hit up a department store or coffee shop or get to a cooling center if you are in the 46% of people who do not have AC.
While this is easy to dismiss as “crypto bros being themselves” it’s worth mentioning that this is run by Marathon Energy who owns the power plant that the mining boxes were built to surround. This isn’t just “crypto bros” but a multinational oil and energy company that opted to skip a data center building and used conex boxes with turbo fans. The fans output jet engine 90+ decibels.
The real story is that Marathon used their fossil fuel lobby to push through Bitcoin laws that limit any restrictions, so even if the town wanted to they would need to compete with a leading fossil fuel provider, and no municipality has that kind of money. Major corporate interests are jumping on this opportunity and limiting their opposition early.
Good. Too many critical systems have glaring vulnerabilities. Hopefully they can use this data to identify attackers and threat patterns to increase national cybersecurity.
This agency absolutely will have to share this data with the NSA and other agencies to even have a chance at sorting through all of this and getting relevant metadata.
I dunno what clearances you’ve held in the past or what big data experience you have but this is absolutely not just for nukes.
His denial of climate change evidenced by his holding of a snowball on the congressional floor in winter was the moment I realized that memes are now more important than facts.
My selfish question: is my VPN still secure? This wouldn’t impact the fact that the traffic itself is encrypted, right? They’d just be able to see that my connection is behind a VPN which is communicating with other servers? Previously it was just my ISP that could know that, now the DTRA can too?
This still seems like a big security risk, though I’m not entirely sure how.
I’ve worked with netflow data before. All it says is time, source IP, destination IP, protocol, source and destination ports, amount of data transferred, and a guess at what type of traffic it is (http, torrent, video stream, etc). cisco.com/…/technologies_white_paper09186a00800a3… (table 6, though most of the fields in that table aren’t actually used). It doesn’t include any of the data within the connection.
It wasn’t previously just your ISP, it was every provider between you and the endpoint. That is, your ISP, their ISP, and the multiple backbone providers with the big pipes between ISPs (these are the ones selling the data in the article). And of course the NSA because they have a direct tap on the backbones, but they don’t share that access or data with anyone.
Useful metadata to build patterns for people that are already suspected or to find patterns of bad actors.
They’ll likely have to send portions of it to other agencies to get confirmation and investigations started. The amount of forensic metadata this is, just wow. Like tracking a person through a crowd by the gait of their walk, over years.
Look at all those patriots with their trump flags attacking the capital. Wait a sec…
It’s literally a cult. Dumb brainwashed assholes gathered to attack our nation in the name of one of the worst people alive. Can’t get any cult-ier than that.
And yet the abomination of a human being is still allowed to run for presidency even though we all know he is a dumb, conman, traitor, piece of shit, child rapist cult leader.
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