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Maybe he was just one of your many fans....
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Gerry Schmitz wrote: “the O.G.”
...Opera Ghost?
...One God?
...Old Guy?
...Old Git?
Or, bearing in mind the (recent) wokeness of the US army:
...Old Gorgeous!
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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office general
just a guess
"A little time, a little trouble, your better day"
Badfinger
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"Old Geezer?" Surely it wasn't the president. 
And it wasn't me, though I qualify. As an old geezer, not the president.
There are no solutions, only trade-offs. - Thomas Sowell
A day can really slip by when you're deliberately avoiding what you're supposed to do.
- Calvin (Bill Watterson, Calvin & Hobbes)
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What I have heard is that the NY Times and the Washington Post helped identify the "leaker." But that's not the real story. There are two parts to this. The first is how did a 21 NG have access to top secret compartmentalized material? I've worked with classified documents in the past, and you just don't walk up to the safe room and grab whatever you want.
The second issue and more damning in my opinion, is that Old Joe and company are in full damage control mode - determining the authenticity? Get real. Revelations of US and British service members in active combat against Russians? Ukrainian generals skimming off the top of the money being provided? It just goes on. Makes me wonder how far this will go.
Charlie Gilley
“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759
Has never been more appropriate.
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charlieg wrote: I've worked with classified documents in the past, and you just don't walk up to the safe room and grab whatever you want.
The past probably didn't include as many electronic documents, which from what I have seen reported, was what was happening.
Standard problem everywhere computers are used. Companies don't like it known that the vast majority of data breeches occur from the inside. When you need someone to have all the keys so they can fix everything that breaks then of course that person (or persons) is still susceptible to all of the random quirks and impulses that any other human is.
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I know a lot of secure places started epoxying the usb ports. In any event, he either managed to get ahold of them due to carelessness, or someone gave him the files. I don't know. That form they made me sign made it very clear that you could go to jail for just being careless.
Update
I know way back in the 80s the DOD was very interested in secure operating systems. The idea was that based on your user id, you would have access to appropriate information. They had some sort of nomenclature for the definitions. The idea was to associate a security tag to a specific account, and that tag would allow you to access specific information you were allowed to access. What the DOD wanted is an OS that was absolutely hack proof and kept the users properly contained. Time moves on... with the advent of the PC everything came off the rails. Near as I can tell, and I really have no new knowledge, they isolate data by networks and isolated systems. I hope they do.
The part that rankles me is that there are different flavors of classified data. Systems data might be important. Analyst data that could be tracked back to assets, hugely important. What I've read is that this guy was a bozo, and other bozos shared the info.
Still begs the question - how did he get it?
Anyway
Charlie Gilley
“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759
Has never been more appropriate.
modified 18-Apr-23 17:27pm.
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I just tried to get a copy of a government letter (I'm after applying for a Blue Badge for Herself, and need a letter they sent some ten years ago for proof of entitlement) and it's a free phone number 0800 ...
But it's a Friday arvo, so after a 5 level "press 0 for this, 1 for that" automated rejection redirection system I get the engaged tone and they cut me off.
"Sod it!" I think. "I'll try Monday morning."
So I put a reminder in google calendar: "Phone DWP re [Herself] PIP decision letter 0800 121 4433 @09:00" for Monday. And it goes in for 08:00 and throws away the rest of the message because it ignores the "@" part and assumes the phone number is a time ... 
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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So, no Blue Badge but at least you got the Blues 
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But see, if that had been what you were trying to do, it would've saved you time by, ummm...
...not doing anything with the rest of what you typed in?
I don't know, let them justify it.
Every time software is trying to be too smart for its own good leads to undesired results. And companies like Google insist on trying too hard.
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Just noting a Postit note won't throw away that last bit unless you write really large.
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This is true, but it also won't send me an email half an hour before it's due ... 
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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Rearranged each, made silent. (8)
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Permuted or permuter ?
Edit
I'll go with permuted
In a closed society where everybody's guilty, the only crime is getting caught. In a world of thieves, the only final sin is stupidity. - Hunter S Thompson - RIP
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Permuted is the answer I'm looking for. You are up on Monday!
Definition: Rearranged
Each: PER
Made silent: MUTED
PERMUTED
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Rearranged each made threw me for while because of the anagram inference - nice little clue 
In a closed society where everybody's guilty, the only crime is getting caught. In a world of thieves, the only final sin is stupidity. - Hunter S Thompson - RIP
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Thank you. That, of course, was the intention. I got the idea from one of Griff's clues a while back that caught me the same way. 
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I fell for it and never strayed from the incorrect path. Nice bait.
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Member 14968771 wrote: Any suggestions for "alternative action" ?
Give up; you have been on this for more years than I can remember, and seem to have got nowhere. Meanwhile the rest of the world is happily implementing their Bluetooth systems.
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Dear Microsoft ... I don't like your operating system. Please fix it. Thank you.
"Before entering on an understanding, I have meditated for a long time, and have foreseen what might happen. It is not genius which reveals to me suddenly, secretly, what I have to say or to do in a circumstance unexpected by other people; it is reflection, it is meditation." - Napoleon I
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Member 14968771 wrote: Any suggestions for "alternative action" ?
Go outside, face into the wind, and start to pee. It will accomplish roughly the same thing.
"the debugger doesn't tell me anything because this code compiles just fine" - random QA comment
"Facebook is where you tell lies to your friends. Twitter is where you tell the truth to strangers." - chriselst
"I don't drink any more... then again, I don't drink any less." - Mike Mullikins uncle
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This is the fundamental problem with FOSS. You get what you pay for. While open source is great to ensure trustworthiness of a product, using something you don't pay for means costs will always be cut. And it's usually on the support side of things.
Jeremy Falcon
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Jeremy Falcon wrote: And it's usually on the support side of things.
Friend of mine, decades ago:
"But that's the beauty of open source: if it doesn't do what you want it to do, you can fix it yourself!!!"
Me: I already have my plate full, maintaining my own software; why should I take it upon myself to fix other people's broken software on top of that?"
Him: You just don't get it...You could, if you wanted to.
Me: That's not much of an argument, I wouldn't, whether it's closed source or open source. Fix your sh*t.
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dandy72 wrote: I already have my plate full, maintaining my own software; why should I take it upon myself to fix other people's broken software on top of that?
Err...except of course you don't need to write it from scratch in the first place. You know the same condition that follows from the "plate full".
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