title: Geek code link: https://onemoretech.wordpress.com/2011/01/17/geek-code/ author: lembobro description: post_id: 76 created: 2011/01/17 16:45:36 created_gmt: 2011/01/17 16:45:36 comment_status: open post_name: geek-code status: publish post_type: post

Geek code

The CPB specifically wanted laptops and cell phones and were visibly unhappy when they discovered nothing of the sort. I did however have a few USB thumb drives with a copy of the Bill of Rights encoded into the block device. They were unable to copy it.

Jacob Appelbaum, quoted in Assange vows to drop ‘insurance’ files on Rupert Murdoch: News Corp and Bank of America too

What’s most interesting to me right now about this quote isn’t the politics around releasing super secret government or corporate sludge, but what Appelbaum is telling us about U.S. Customs’ lack of technical acumen. “I did have a few USB thumb drives with a copy of the Bill of Rights encoded into the block device. They were unable to copy it.” Anyone want to venture a guess as to what O/S was used to create “the block device”, and what O/S the hapless Custom’s agents tried to use to access it?

Where are all those “cyber warriors” the U.S. was supposed to be recruiting when you need them?

(or are they only trained on Microsoft Windows?)

I think I’ll take some time tonight to teach my kids the difference between FAT32 and ext3.

And if you don’t know what I’m talking about, then you’ve got no business anywhere near “cyber defense”.

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