Comments on: Politics First

By: Bryan

Bryan — Fri, 12 Oct 2007 04:53:17 +0000

So I assumed 😈

By: hipparchia

hipparchia — Fri, 12 Oct 2007 02:36:23 +0000

:roll: pick a number

By: Bryan

Bryan — Fri, 12 Oct 2007 01:49:08 +0000

…and you wonder that geeks aren’t appreciative of your techniques.

By: hipparchia

hipparchia — Fri, 12 Oct 2007 01:41:37 +0000

i keep everything on post-it notes on my monitor. you'd have to shuffle through them all for hours to find the ones with the passwords written on them.

By: Bryan

Bryan — Thu, 11 Oct 2007 01:38:26 +0000

You end up having to do it, but you shouldn’t make it too obvious or store it in your rolodex under passwords.

By: Michael

Michael — Thu, 11 Oct 2007 00:32:05 +0000

I’m not that obvious about it. But with the number of sites (a) requiring passwords these days and (b) insisting that you change them to something unique (i.e., no recycling) every three months or so, it’s getting to the point where I almost have to have a list of them written down somewhere, simply to remember what the current one happens to be. I can save them in my browser on my laptop, but then what do I do if I need to access that site from a different computer, or if my laptop dies or (as recently happened) if I have to change the password and can’t remember what the current one is?

By: Bryan

Bryan — Wed, 10 Oct 2007 21:42:24 +0000

It’s always possible that someone at Fox is reading the White House’s e-mail because fo the major security lapses that have occurred in the White House. I don’t doubt that a number of people have their account and password information on a Post-It on their screens.

By: Michael

Michael — Wed, 10 Oct 2007 14:04:35 +0000

Considering that their entire rationale for why the Gitmo detainees and other terrrrrrr suspects can’t be allowed to go to trial in the federal court system is that doing so would reveal intelligence gathering methods, it would appear that the Shrubbery is–yet again–suffering from self-referential incoherence. If any of them had any sense of shame, they’d be too embarrassed to show their faces in public again. Given that it’s the Shrubbery, I’m sure they’ll be out spilling secrets again in no time–as long as doing so suits their purposes at that particular moment in time.

I’m sure they’ll try to find some way to blame the leak on a Democrat. Or the Clenis.

By: Bryan

Bryan — Wed, 10 Oct 2007 03:19:46 +0000

If they want to stay in “the Game” they have to pass things on, but you don’t expect your own government to do you in as a favor for Faux News. That the White House is feeding scoops to Fox in exchange for favorable coverage is becoming more obvious.

I’ve seen some comment that the Hedgemony seems to blow up every serious lead to Osama. I don’t think it’s planned, I think they’re incompetent.

People pay serious money for what SITE produces, and I don’t doubt that some of the anger expressed by SITE was probably due to people asking why they should pay for things that have already been on the news.

By: Steve Bates

Steve Bates — Wed, 10 Oct 2007 03:04:49 +0000

Back on topic… Bryan, when I read of this incident, I immediately thought of you and Fallenmonk, and indeed both of you obliged me with posts on the subject much better focused than anything I could have written. Thank you.

I understand that SITE does its work for its own purposes, but frankly, the Bushists do not deserve the help of SITE. I’m sure SITE now realizes that, and either will not help the U.S. government again (our loss), or at least will avoid the political apparatus like the plague from now on. That’s IF SITE survives this incident, which is no certainty, from what I’ve read.