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Re:New Evidence of Hacked Supermicro Hardware Found in U.S. ... by eganist on Tuesday October 09, 2018 @01:26PM (#18177944)
It's very possible Steve wouldn't know, both owing to past precedent (see SmokeyJ's comment on Alex Stamos) and owing to whether or not he's cleared.
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Re:New Evidence of Hacked Supermicro Hardware Found in U.S. ... by lostapathy on Tuesday October 09, 2018 @04:45PM (#18179683)
He about has to be cleared if he's the security chief over govcloud.
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Re:New Evidence of Hacked Supermicro Hardware Found in U.S. ... by eganist on Tuesday October 09, 2018 @06:30PM (#18180385)
Whoever directly oversees it and acts as the stakeholder for GovCloud should be, sure, but there's no reason for the person above the direct overseer to be cleared. Otherwise by that logic Bezos should be cleared as well.
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Re:New Evidence of Hacked Supermicro Hardware Found in U.S. ... by stevehawk on Tuesday October 09, 2018 @08:46PM (#18181056)
I may be mistaken but I'm fairly confident govcloud is an unclassified network.
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Re:New Evidence of Hacked Supermicro Hardware Found in U.S. ... by eganist on Tuesday October 09, 2018 @08:54PM (#18181093)
At least publicly, they're acknowledged to go up to Secret right now. https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/publicsector/announcing-the-new...
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