By adding the element of a mobile device to verify the transaction it changes the dynamic here. There are protections and precautions to verify against fraudulent currency performed within the machine. The implied here is that there is no verification or protection (by means of storing values local rather then remote). In a system where there is transactional data / values stored, the default should be to have the data stored and housed within a protected system. IE central server that a simple app queries with API calls vs a database walled on a phone.
The same principles often come into play with online games and cheating, yet constantly developers make the same mistakes.
But they don't, they explicitly mentioned they are not under a gag order, which is the first thing you are forbidden to mention when you are gagged. That is the reason why "warrant canaries" exist.
I think what GP was suggesting is that lower level employees might be under individual gag order, keeping them from ever reporting the incident to their higher ups (including those responsible for the warrant canary).
It's actually suprising that people think they're not "normal" computers. I provisioned a few of them and they're little beasts. Most in use are I7, 16-32gb ram, Dual NVME. The Skulltrail nucs are extremely powerfull and on the lower end the atom based units are solid too. I also ran a nuc in my car for a while, mostly stumbling radio / wifi spectrum as I drove around, but it was perfect with its relatively low power requirements.
So much this, yes i'm sure people were attempting to scan it up but I guarantee you could show the same for almost every network out there. I understand the fear mongering to a degree but its projecting things in the wrong place and it's almost like crying wolf.
Everyone seems to forget that the projection of might in of itself is a deterrent leveraged by all nations. Further, the US is part of multi nation programs, such as NATO in which it's the largest supplier of Capital and Manpower by a large margin. Most of the countries external to the US that bring up this argument, are happily accepting Military and in some instances Economic Aide.
You can't look at the % of spending / annual cost of the greatest military power without taking into account it's responsibilities around the globe.
Nothing above says you have to agree or disagree with the military, in fact many of us aren't pro on a lot of their actions, but this common retort as posted above, is selective data analysis, which I would hope the intellectuals of HN would be able to separate emotions from facts.
I don’t see how that’s relevant to the point I made. Regardless of any self imposed “responsibilities” at the end of the day if it was ever necessary the entire US military would be available to protect the United States and the people living here.
There’s no way to recontexualize the numbers such that we are in imminent danger if some software engineers decide they will not work on military contracts. We are absurdly far away from such a scenario.
The even shittier thing is, assuming your muni get the efforts going, it's not uncommon for comcast to all of a sudden have a competing product at a cheaper rate. Where the didn't have bandwidth they suddenly can support the increased rates due to competition. It's just nuts.
The same principles often come into play with online games and cheating, yet constantly developers make the same mistakes.