Top-Secret NSA Report Details Russian Hacking Effort Days Before 2016 Election
RUSSIAN MILITARY INTELLIGENCE [GRU] executed a cyberattack on at least one U.S. voting software supplier and sent spear-phishing emails to more than 100 local election officials just days before last November’s presidential election, according to a highly classified intelligence report obtained by The Intercept. The top-secret National Security Agency document, which was provided anonymously to The Intercept and independently authenticated, analyzes intelligence very recently acquired by the agency about a months-long Russian intelligence cyber effort against elements of the U.S. election and voting infrastructure. The report, dated May 5, 2017, is the most detailed U.S. government account of Russian interference in the election that has yet come to light.
(tags: politics russia nsa leaks us-politics cyberattacks gru hacking elections spear-phishing phishing e-voting)
Drug Company Chairman to America: Go Fuck Yourself
‘Mr. Coury [chairman of Mylan, makers of the EpiPen] replied that he was untroubled [by critics of 10x price-gouging price hikes]. He raised both his middle fingers and explained, using colorful language, that anyone criticizing Mylan, including its employees, ought to go copulate with themselves. Critics in Congress and on Wall Street, he said, should do the same. And regulators at the Food and Drug Administration? They, too, deserved a round of anatomically challenging self-fulfillment.’
(tags: mylan gfy fda us-politics healthcare medicine epipen nytimes)
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“His face would suffuse, he would turn red, and he would get violent if people used the term “research” in his presence. You can imagine how he felt, then, about the term “mathematical”. [….] I felt I had to do something to shield Wilson and the Air Force from the fact that I was really doing mathematics inside RAND”
(tags: rand funny history insane dr-strangelove 1950s dynamic-programming mathematics algorithms)
How The Intercept Outed Reality Winner
those printer-identifying secret yellow dots
(tags: printers metadata tracking documents reality-winner nsa leaks the-intercept)
Open Guide to Amazon Web Services
‘A lot of information on AWS is already written. Most people learn AWS by reading a blog or a “getting started guide” and referring to the standard AWS references. Nonetheless, trustworthy and practical information and recommendations aren’t easy to come by. AWS’s own documentation is a great but sprawling resource few have time to read fully, and it doesn’t include anything but official facts, so omits experiences of engineers. The information in blogs or Stack Overflow is also not consistently up to date. This guide is by and for engineers who use AWS. It aims to be a useful, living reference that consolidates links, tips, gotchas, and best practices. It arose from discussion and editing over beers by several engineers who have used AWS extensively.’
(tags: amazon aws guides documentation ops architecture)