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Re:Botched CIA Communications System Helped Blow Cover of Ch... by hackermailman on Thursday August 16, 2018 @10:58AM (#17775170)
Which sounds like a management decision to cut costs by running them on the same server. This is probably why we are seeing ex regime department heads in the news lately as political pundits in hopes they create enough deflection to avoid prosecution for 30+ agents dying on their watch.
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Re:Botched CIA Communications System Helped Blow Cover of Ch... by obmelvin on Thursday August 16, 2018 @12:13PM (#17775903)
Do you seriously think the CIA cared about server costs for something like this?
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Re:Botched CIA Communications System Helped Blow Cover of Ch... by jessaustin on Thursday August 16, 2018 @04:29PM (#17778185)
The less money they spend on this kind of thing, the more they have to funnel to their second cousin's shell corporation. With no oversight, performance degrades.
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Re:Botched CIA Communications System Helped Blow Cover of Ch... by hackermailman on Thursday August 16, 2018 @12:36PM (#17776169)
Sure, that's some manager's performance bonus. When I briefly worked for Nav Canada our manager decided to buy the cheapest dollar store pens possible in order to pad his performance metrics. We also had to sign them out individually from his safe. Not at all surprised if a CIA manager did a risk analysis and decided lets use the same server(s) and save a few dollars the risk is acceptable.
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