Infosec implications of the US Capitol physical breach

Re:Infosec implications of the US Capitol physical breach by xienze on Thursday January 07, 2021 @12:57AM (#25667728)

> Compare that to the BLM protests on the west coast where unmarked vans of feds were literally rolling up and black bagging people off the street.

Boy, I wonder if the fact that these guys basically just goofed around and took pictures instead of burning down the capitol (like what happened in the Portland courthouse) had any bearing on that.

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Re:Infosec implications of the US Capitol physical breach by dang on Friday January 08, 2021 @12:50AM (#25681921)

Please don't take HN threads further into flamewar. We're trying to avoid the hell we're all sinking into. Comments like this are a sharp push hellward, so please don't.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

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Re:Infosec implications of the US Capitol physical breach by maybe_ on Thursday January 07, 2021 @01:08AM (#25667795)

Four people died today, I'm not sure if I would classify that as "goofing around".

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Re:Infosec implications of the US Capitol physical breach by neartheplain on Thursday January 07, 2021 @01:50AM (#25668008)

One was an unarmed woman shot by law enforcement, as police have confirmed [0]. The other 3 died near the riot due to separate medical emergencies [1].

[0] https://www.fox5dc.com/news/woman-shot-killed-after-pro-trum...

[1] https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/live-blog/electora...

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Re:Infosec implications of the US Capitol physical breach by Shared404 on Thursday January 07, 2021 @01:05AM (#25667765)

That appears to be related to competency, not intentions.

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 altdatathrow on Thursday January 07, 2021 @07:09AM (#25670112)

Please stop defending an attempt to overthrow a lawful election as goofing around.

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Re:Infosec implications of the US Capitol physical breach by dang on Friday January 08, 2021 @12:51AM (#25681929)

You can't do this here, regardless of how wrong someone else is or you feel they are. We ban accounts that do it. Please don't.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Edit: a large proportion of your most recent, say, 10 comments to HN have been breaking the site guidelines really badly. I don't want to ban you, because you've been a user here for a long time and you've posted many good things. But if you keep doing this, we're not going to have any choice. Having something like this be your first comment in months is extremely dismaying.

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Re:Infosec implications of the US Capitol physical breach by Shared404 on Thursday January 07, 2021 @01:13AM (#25667816)

There are all sorts of negative emotions it's reasonable to feel right now.

That being said, we can do better than personal attacks.

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Re:Infosec implications of the US Capitol physical breach by Shared404 on Thursday January 07, 2021 @01:55AM (#25668040)

I don't know whether or not anyone is going back and downvoting all your older posts.

However, having looked at your last several, I am not shocked that they are negative.

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Re:Infosec implications of the US Capitol physical breach by xienze on Thursday January 07, 2021 @08:03AM (#25670503)

They have, for the record. I.e., posts from the morning that were effectively were dead got additional downvotes rapidly after posts in this thread. And I got plenty of HN’s passive aggressive “you’re posting too fast” messages.

Are you a mod? For example, look at this comment[0], which stood at 1 all day long, which is now -3 after last night.

0: https://news.ycombinator.com/reply?id=25658587&goto=threads%...

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Re:Infosec implications of the US Capitol physical breach by Shared404 on Thursday January 07, 2021 @09:30AM (#25671403)

> Are you a mod?

Nope. Not even close.

You should be able to get the modmail from the guidelines or FAQ or someplace.

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Re:Infosec implications of the US Capitol physical breach by the-dude on Thursday January 07, 2021 @04:46AM (#25669182)

Downvoting only is possible for the last 24 or 48 hours or so. Also, you are complaining about voting. Boring.

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Re:Infosec implications of the US Capitol physical breach by xienze on Thursday January 07, 2021 @08:04AM (#25670510)

Did I say it was downvotes past 48 hours? Just ones that people had stopped paying attention to because the posts fell off the front page got additional downvotes moments after a new post in this thread.

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Re:Infosec implications of the US Capitol physical breach by neartheplain on Thursday January 07, 2021 @02:49AM (#25668398)

If you believe someone has done this (downvoting all your old comments on unrelated posts), try emailing the modstaff. It happened to me once and dang quickly fixed it.

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