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There's a "Send to Kindle" app you can get for Chrome (prob firefox too) that'll send the pages as PDF's automatically. You might have to do each page solo though.

AF's paid for the test of one. Rest I'm self funding as I've never been in a Sq that's given me anything official.

Interesting change to the NSC, good basic write up comparing back to Dubya - https://lawfareblog.com/national-security-presidential-memorandum-2—president-trumps-nsc-and-hsc

Another note that I had mentioned before: CGO's are started to get pinged for reasons they're leaving. Not exit survey's, but emails from former CC's. Word on the street is CGO retention is abysmal, particularly in our Ops Sq's. Since I'm not in one of the anointed Sq's and can't get my hands on retention numbers (wouldn't post those anyway) I've no way to confirm. I do have bros that are Ops and not too many are super happy with what their AF future looks like. This includes the patch-wearers and CNODP grads. I've provided feedback about how soon our CGO's are taken off technical/skilled work, lack of "cyber-pay," lack of recognition pertinent to the type of ops (a la Air Medals), the split between what 24 AF is doing, and the rest of the big AF. One idea floated to me by a Col was to not give CGO's certifications (GIAC, CISSP, etc.) since they're worth so much on the outside and allows us to realize our dollar value. I like the dude who suggested this, so I'm going to assume legit panic/worry and not a character flaw. He got a dig more at the numbers this past week, so we'll see what happens. Also of note are the number of Lt Col and Col retirements over the past 5 years. I generally hate the trope of "best and brightest" leave, but there's so much more freedom, money and ability to make a difference and lead on the outside--both commercially and politically, that I'm kinda concerned. While this improves my chances of making rank, because we have to wait so long to promote and I've had no Ops stink, the reality of me getting promoted is getting drastically reduced. Which I think my Big AF bro's are also seeing, and just bouncing. Plus the easy to find certification dollars.

Sorry no AR info, but now they're part of Global Strike. So, not sure if that's changed the awesome culture the bros had over there. I hope not, seeing them hang/chat is the only time I wished I was a flier.

So, This seems like a well balanced article on something that's going on in Russia. Of course, we can't know what's really occurring; we can only speculate. But it is interesting 2 of the arrested have come from the FSB. https://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/wow-it-gets-bigger Of course the secret trials should help put everything to bed. another one - https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/2017/01/26/report-arrested-russian-intel-officer-allegedly-spied-us/97094696/

Wow.. that's interesting. Also interesting is the reasons given. NY Times (ugh) has a good write up.

They only care about leaking classified data if it's against them political ends. Since Manning leaked against Dubya, and a war they didn't start (but sure carried on) - no harm, no foul. They also care about classified only as long as they can strip headers from documents/emails for a personal, insecure server. I really hope he's not considering a Snowden pardon...

As a kid I lived in Exmouth (which is the second red star above Learmonth) in the North West Cape. Would do again in a heartbeat.

Having spent a year in Best Korea, and now with their cult-president being impeached, the frat, rape and AAFES taking bribes little surprises me about that place. Me-guk probably doesn't want to pay what the Koreans are asking (plus the increase in the worldwide AAFES hiring quota). Philippines are a no-go. All we need is some DoD members getting shot and having crack sprinkled on them by a Durerte "anti-drug" gangs. Plus, who wants to live in a place with martial law? Outside of those 2 there are of course other options. There are requirements for massive infrastructure upgrades...they're just taking YEARS longer than planned because PACOM. EDIT - find it pretty interesting the AF managed to keep the serial rapist that was running around 2004-2006ish off Al Gore's internet. I can't find anything on it and my Airman's roommate was assaulted.

I guess I didn't communicate well. I've got no problem with it either. It's genius, and the Demo's were absolutely asleep at the wheel. It's local gov't, the way it should be. The NPR podcast goes into a little more detail about how the R's even had... public memos (not press releases, can't think of the term) announcing what they were doing. As a more conservative person, I'm fine with the way it happened. D's just assumed they'd always be in power, I guess. Even now they appear to be grasping at straws as to what led to the downfall.

Thanks for all the links, good reads/listens. Really? And they wonder why they can't even win the legislature back. Fixing/redoing the gerrymandering isn't going to overcome a complete out of step platform with the "fly-over" states. Republican's ability to win state houses to secure the federal legislature is breathtaking. NPR's fresh air had a good podcast on it. Other notes, I've always hated the smoke-fire line of reasoning and dismissed the whole thing with Russia holding kompromat on Trump. But then we find out Flynn had a holiday call with the Ruskies, where we're assured nothing political/sanction-related was discussed. Trump also keeps tweeting negatively about the IC. Also, there's interesting correlation between the non-IC dossier released on Trump and notable "deaths" in Russia of powerful information brokers. Additionally, the Panama Papers highlighting the shell-game of corporations and money movement (at least) of Russian oil companies aligning with some of the dossier numbers/offers. What's your thoughts on Trump's ties/non-ties with Russia or otherwise?

I kinda doubt it, but It's a possible issue: the comm heavy requirements/costs of running to droids PACOM areas may preclude basing there. We're having problems with other, less mission intense, programs getting up and running. Additionally, the political landscape is rough for getting that accomplished.

Follow-up - How many have Russian... Eastern European accents? I actually wonder this as well. The number of pol's who get caught up in women chasing.

Yep, I was wrong. Cheers.

I mean we can split hairs over it all you want, but feel free to read the article at some point. Plenty of WTF to go around, along with the assumption I'm a liberal who's going to blame Trump for everything. "Two military officials with knowledge of the situation said the Trump team decided to accept the resignation. A person close to the transition said transition officials wanted to keep Schwartz in the job for continuity, but the Army pushed to replace him.

Here's a WaPo link. Very... interesting decision. But I guess I shouldn't be shocked at anything with the incoming admin.

So, Rudy Giuliani is going to be Cyber Advisor to our new Czar President. Oh look, he runs a security consulting company. There's no way they'd leave a test page open to show config worked. Or tons of open ports that are easy to enumerate, crack and/or run Russian in.

I'm a privacy nut. Still I think we can work something out.

https://www.cnn.com/2017/01/11/politics/donald-trump-press-conference-highlights/index.html If nothing else, we'll get to see him back-pedal when finally presented with evidence repeatedly. Perhaps while pissing on prostitutes...and blame "the intelligence agencies" for the leak of a clearly commercial dossier. Or he just stops taking Intel Briefs again. Who knows. Strap in folks.

Are you in any of the "cyber" committees and/or test and evaluation/gov't oversight committees?

Then you've got wikileaks, who got called out hard in the report complaining about leaks... And their popular front trying to put together a "influence network" to identify those hostile to their efforts: The original, now deleted tweet, says "We are thinking of making an online database with all "verified" twitter accounts & their family/job/financial/housing relationships." Influence Operations at their best. PEOTUS is a twitter nut, maybe he can beat them at their own game.

The unclass report is out - https://www.dni.gov/index.php/newsroom/press-releases/224-press-releases-2017/1466-odni-statement-on-declassified-intelligence-community-assessment-of-russian-activities-and-intentions-in-recent Sent from my Pixel using Baseops Network Forums mobile app

Exactly. Even the nomenclature for the names is the same: Air Office:Cyber Officer. There's much going on now that is akin to the struggles our early military aviation pioneers had within the community. Everyone wants cyber to turn off missiles mid-flight when that's just not possible--today. I hope we can avoid the "Strategic Daylight Bombing" type of pitfalls. You're talking about IT, which isn't Cyber. IT will move out of blue-suit support into a contract/DISA maintenance scheme. It's already happened with JIE and our migrations to JRSS. As Gen Bender said above that they view "maintenance" on the network as still Ops because that's how the domain exists, so you can't maintain it without operating on it. It's now causing serious issues because if I have an outage scheduled, and need to canx for base mission... is that a Cyber Ops failure? Or is that just CANX MX, reattempt at a later date? Some would/are saying it is an Ops Failure and we need to get C2 involved in it. Either way, in 5-10 years we'll be out of the IT business for the most part. I strongly disagree with Cyber as its own service. Because the enemy can always just unplug, and still fight. We will continue to bring capability, creating kinetic effects that kill bad-people, but I can't really see the value in spinning up a Cyber Corps...that'll just go and put people back on Army/Navy/AF bases to ensure the mission sets and/or DCO actions. Doesn't make sense to me, and the loss of choke-con for Mission Assurance wouldn't fly. Instead I forsee it being like AFSOC and JSOC. It's not going to be some huge separate-service. It needs to be small, agile and responsive to the services who operate in their individual areas within the physical domain. Cyber doesn't bring that type of strategic shift...yet. Perhaps in another decade, but I'll be an old(er)-head by then and cashing that check for life.