Infosec implications of the US Capitol physical breach

Re:Infosec implications of the US Capitol physical breach by sterlind on Thursday January 07, 2021 @12:36AM (#25667633)

Any one of those protestors could have brought in a bomb. They weren't exactly going through metal detectors. Given that a pipe bomb was found at the RNC, and a suspicious package of some sort at the DNC, I'm surprised someone didn't try. I wonder how worried security there was about explosive devices and weighing whether to open fire.

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Re:Infosec implications of the US Capitol physical breach by seanp2k2 on Thursday January 07, 2021 @01:58AM (#25668056)

Many of them were also carrying guns. No idea who thought it'd be a good idea to just stand down and let them in, but my guess is that making martyrs of them would push us closer to something like the beginning of a civil war.

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Re:Infosec implications of the US Capitol physical breach by zionic on Thursday January 07, 2021 @01:00AM (#25667741)

And yet they didn’t. Consider the implications of that

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Re:Infosec implications of the US Capitol physical breach by morsch on Thursday January 07, 2021 @03:48AM (#25668791)

We're at the stage where we're giving out merit awards for not bombing a seat of government after having stormed it?

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Re:Infosec implications of the US Capitol physical breach by munk-a on Thursday January 07, 2021 @01:14AM (#25667827)

There were two IEDs discovered in the capital today - neither in the state house but still... super bad for security.

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Re:Infosec implications of the US Capitol physical breach by Natsu on Thursday January 07, 2021 @02:28AM (#25668227)

One of those was at the RNC, I haven't heard of the other one yet.

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Re:Infosec implications of the US Capitol physical breach by Shared404 on Thursday January 07, 2021 @01:06AM (#25667779)

There was someone arrested with materials for Molotov cocktails.

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/06/us/politics/pipe-bomb-rnc...

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Re:Infosec implications of the US Capitol physical breach by macawfish on Thursday January 07, 2021 @04:33AM (#25669092)

I believe there were full on bombs found, as in IEDs with electronic parts.

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