One of the guys in my bullshit business class started complimenting me on my writing. We have to do these weekly discussion board posts (it's not an online class, but our lazy teacher figures this is a way to create meaningless metrics to grade us by so that she doesn't have to do any actual work). I write some pretty detailed ones; they come out to about a page and a half single spaced. I liked the compliments at first, but they're starting to cross that line from "simple compliment" to "borderline ass-kissing".
Another part involves responding to others posts in a "substantive" way. I got sick of doing this and figured the teacher wasn't paying attention anyway, so I wrote this response to a post about some boring-as-shit current event post about something vaguely related to network security. Here it is, hidden under spoiler tags because it's really long and really boring:
In class we have learned about Cognitive Intelligence and also how hackers are using our television to spy on us. Well this article is about the government using a system that is design to prevent a form of hacking but found loopholes in their very own system.
The airline industry uses black boxes to record flight information data to determine different types of scenarios or accidents. Well the government also uses black boxes to retain information before releasing that information to the public.
FBI completed an investigation of the Black Boxes used to retain sensitive governmental information pertaining to governmental economic indicators. This released document list the vulnerabilities of the governments system for preventing market moving economic indexes leaking to traders before public release. Types of sensitive information:
• Unemployment Rate
• Insider Trading
• GDP
Government relies on the black boxes as a form to control governmental data. Media firms are required to connect their computers to the black boxes which operate as a trap door holding all data information until the appointed time of release.
How is the system vulnerable? During the study the FBI found that individuals bypassed the black boxes in several ways and they are:
1. Sending data in a different electrical current
2. Media firms can turn off the Black Boxes
3. Data could be surreptitiously routed around the black boxes
1. Using concealed wireless devices or
2. Phone line or cable
3. Devices can be concealed to intentionally disguise there presence
This information stored in the “black boxes” could and can impact the world system and make many people rich if you are in the right place at the right time. FBI concluded in its reports that they could not find one agency liable. However they did sent our notification to the following governmental agencies but they decline to comment on their findings.
1. Department of Commerce
2. Agriculture and Labor
3. Federal Reserve Board
4. Office of management and Budget.
Questions
1. Who should be held responsible for the security breach, if any?
2. Is this a new type of government hacker?
3. Will IT Security really prevent the secret information to remain a secret until the appointed time?
Like I said, I'm sick of doing these and didn't have anything substantive to say, so I was just honest.
I really wish I had a more substantive response but I just can't think of anything interesting to say. I feel like I've been hearing too much about network security lately and the topic just bores me so. Good post though.
Kiss-ass had this to say:
Mike,
Perhaps you should install WordPress on your server machine and start blogging about network security and share your expertise for free with others. I think you would become an expert authority and celebrity blogger by sharing your knowledge with others. I wouldn't be surprised if you made the front page of the ZDNet or the homepage of PC Magazine online.
I gagged it was so over the top.
This guy is one of those guys who runs a blog and is trying to make a living out of it, so he's often talking about blogging and affiliate marketing.
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