bird food bathtub posted:

I did manage to see someone get the full-on "Thank you your services will no longer be needed please turn in your badge these guards will escort you out of the building." treatment. loving brain genius brought in his own personal WiFi hotspot and hooked it up to the government NIPR so he could check his daytrading stocks. It was a bunch of stupid all piled together. We all had admin roles so we got extra briefings and paperwork outlining how we should do exactly not that, and we were allowed to have our personal phones there anyway since it was out in the unsecured side with NIPR. Could have just used his personal cell data plan like everybody else in the building but welp. The network guys were making GBS threads bricks over their network alarms and busted out their signal sniffer to nail him. Since it was a security incident it went far enough up the chain on both the government and contract sides that the axe came down in hours. Probably lost his clearance too.

bird food bathtub posted:

I did manage to see someone get the full-on "Thank you your services will no longer be needed please turn in your badge these guards will escort you out of the building." treatment. loving brain genius brought in his own personal WiFi hotspot and hooked it up to the government NIPR so he could check his daytrading stocks. It was a bunch of stupid all piled together. We all had admin roles so we got extra briefings and paperwork outlining how we should do exactly not that, and we were allowed to have our personal phones there anyway since it was out in the unsecured side with NIPR. Could have just used his personal cell data plan like everybody else in the building but welp. The network guys were making GBS threads bricks over their network alarms and busted out their signal sniffer to nail him. Since it was a security incident it went far enough up the chain on both the government and contract sides that the axe came down in hours. Probably lost his clearance too.

Kesper North posted:

DFIR guy here. Windows often leaves credentials (PINs, passwords, hashes, Kerberos tickets, other stuff) in running memory for days. Mimikatz is both the name of an exploit that allows a program to extract things from memory, and also the name of an exceptionally handy utility for finding and extracting those cached credentials. If, say an IT administrator remoted into your system to install a program or do maintenance in the last few days, their admin credentials are cached and can be extracted via Mimikatz. So the risk is that not only will the attacker be able to gain persistence on your system via your credentials, but they'll be able to move laterally to other machines at a higher level of privilege when they find admin credentials. With those admin credentials it's a pretty quick trip to get Global Admin, and then you own the organization.

In TYOOL 2024 all DoD computers should* have something like Crowdstrike or Defender for Endpoint on them, which should** detect Mimikatz and alert the authorities*** immediately.

* lol
** there's always the possibility of a novel technique no one has seen before
*** whether they will take action with the speed and urgency required is questionable and varies from org to org

Pine Cone Jones posted:

Or just use your imagination, have these people never rubbed one out in a portajohn

maffew buildings posted:

back in my day we didn't need them videos or lotions, you went and jacked off dry in the portajohn to memories of feeling Sally McGruders breasts over her sweater at the 8th grade dance at 1400 on a tuesday when it was over 120F while someone is taking an explosive poo poo in the portajohn next to you like a normal person

Big Pharma spends billions more on executives and stockholders than on R&D posted:

When big pharmaceutical companies are confronted over their exorbitant pricing of prescription drugs in the US, they often retreat to two well-worn arguments: One, that the high drug prices cover costs of researching and developing new drugs, a risky and expensive endeavor, and two, that middle managers—pharmacy benefit managers (PBMs), to be specific—are actually the ones price gouging Americans.

Both of these arguments faced substantial blows in a hearing Thursday held by the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions, chaired by Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.). In fact, pharmaceutical companies are spending billions of dollars more on lavish executive compensation, dividends, and stock buyouts than they spend on research and development (R&D) for new drugs, Sanders pointed out. "In other words, these companies are spending more to enrich their own stockholders and CEOs than they are in finding new cures and new treatments," he said.

And, while PBMs certainly contribute to America's uniquely astronomical drug pricing, their profiteering accounts for a small fraction of the massive drug market, Sanders and an expert panelist noted. PBMs work as shadowy middle managers between drugmakers, insurers, and pharmacies, setting drug formularies and consumer prices, and negotiating rebates and discounts behind the scenes. Though PBMs practices contribute to overall costs, they pale compared to pharmaceutical profits.

Rather, the heart of the problem, according to a Senate report released earlier this week, is pharmaceutical greed, patent gaming that allows drug makers to stretch out monopolies, and powerful lobbying.

On Thursday, the Senate committee gathered the CEOs of three behemoth pharmaceutical companies to question them on the drug pricing practices: Robert Davis of Merck, Joaquin Duato of Johnson & Johnson, and Chris Boerner of Bristol Myers Squibb.

"We are aware of the many important lifesaving drugs that your companies have produced, and that's extraordinarily important," Sanders said before questioning the CEOs. "But, I think, as all of you know, those drugs mean nothing to anybody who cannot afford it."

psydude posted:

We had a bunch of Joes sharing a portable hard drive with a ton of porn on it. At some point it got infected with some poo poo someone had on their computer and they all wound up with it.

Zamujasa posted:

meanwhile, in a world where nobody is surprised

absolutely mind-blowing

Zamujasa posted:

meanwhile, in a world where nobody is surprised

absolutely mind-blowing

Tiny Timbs posted:

drat I hope it wasn’t Joel Osteen committing suicide by cop after coming to terms with how terribly he has manipulated people in his demonic quest for more money

CBJSprague24 posted:

https://twitter.com/ABC/status/1756790100237656390?t=Zx-AiJkdYlzIYOU4zP6TGQ&s=19

I would come in with a pithy remark about thoughts and prayers, but this was just before the Spanish language service, so I'm bothered again.

Zamujasa posted:

meanwhile, in a world where nobody is surprised

absolutely mind-blowing

quote:

"In capitalism, if you're running an enterprise where you have a fiduciary responsibility to your owners, you try and get as high a price as you can," Sen. Mitt Romney (R-Utah) said. "That's what you try and do. You try and make as much profit as you can. That's how free enterprise works. You think Chevrolet sits back and says, 'Gosh, how can we get the price of this Chevrolet down?' No, it's like, 'How high a price can I get and maximize the profit for my shareholder?'"

Zamujasa posted:

someone in the comments pointed out how cool it is that "fiduciary responsibility" turned from "don't blow the entire budget on hookers and blow and act vaguely responsible" to "companies must maximize short-term shareholder profits at all costs".

wasn't mitt romney the guy who put the family dog carrier on top of their car when travelling and got mad that the dog took a poo poo that slid down his windshield

Stultus Maximus posted:

quote:

During the 650-mile (1,050 km) trip, Seamus got diarrhea. The Romneys were first alerted to the Irish Setter’s bowel issues when Tagg noticed brown liquid pouring down the back window, followed immediately by him and his younger brothers yelling in disgust.

Acebuckeye13 posted:

What's wild about this quote is that Mitt's dad ran AMC, he should know more than anyone that car companies very much do sit around figuring out how to bring prices down! Henry Ford spent 20 years doing nothing but making the Model T cheaper!

quote:

The law mandated that nearly every resident of Massachusetts obtain a minimum level of insurance coverage, provided free and subsidized health care insurance for residents earning less than 150% and 300%, respectively, of the federal poverty level (FPL)[2] and mandated employers with more than 10 full-time employees provide healthcare insurance.

Acebuckeye13 posted:

What's wild about this quote is that Mitt's dad ran AMC, he should know more than anyone that car companies very much do sit around figuring out how to bring prices down! Henry Ford spent 20 years doing nothing but making the Model T cheaper!

Vincent Van Goatse posted:

Taylor Swift chugs beer like a champ.

https://twitter.com/NFL/status/1756841836713476406

Vincent Van Goatse posted:

Taylor Swift chugs beer like a champ.

https://twitter.com/NFL/status/1756841836713476406

Milo and POTUS posted:

I hope she starts chucking D batteries

Milo and POTUS posted:

I hope she starts chucking D batteries

facialimpediment posted:

https://twitter.com/JoeBiden/status/1756888470599967000

that's a good-rear end tweet

facialimpediment posted:

https://twitter.com/JoeBiden/status/1756888470599967000

that's a good-rear end tweet

facialimpediment posted:

https://twitter.com/JoeBiden/status/1756888470599967000

that's a good-rear end tweet

facialimpediment posted:

https://twitter.com/JoeBiden/status/1756888470599967000

that's a good-rear end tweet

pantslesswithwolves posted:

maybe hold back for a second or two before dumping gas on the violent and irrational dumpster fire that is the American right wing?

Vincent Van Goatse posted:

Taylor Swift chugs beer like a champ.

https://twitter.com/NFL/status/1756841836713476406

pantslesswithwolves posted:

Man, yeah, it is but given the right-wing fever pitch about Taylor Swift being a Democratic psyop and how the Super Bowl was rigged just so the Chiefs could win and we'd get a big happy moment on camera with Swift and Kelce before they endorse Biden.... honestly makes me real worried that some loving chud with delusions of grandeur is going to take a swipe at her somehow. I'll concede that a large part of my thoughts about this come from having been in the security field for over a decade and looking for threats everywhere, but at the same time... maybe hold back for a second or two before dumping gas on the violent and irrational dumpster fire that is the American right wing?