Comments by "Stephen Villano" (@spvillano) on "The Ring of Fire" channel.

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  27.  @babu357  the military takes lawful orders, it doesn't self-mobilize and engage without lawful orders. And we weren't sworn to the people, we were sworn to obey lawful orders and protect the nation, Constitution and laws. The Constitution's preamble defining the nation as We The People of the United States. Nothing in the oath about a god-king wannabe or anything political and there are laws against military getting in any way at all involved in politics or policing. We also count on the folks at home keeping things reasonably stable and well, as close as possible to what we deployed to defend when we redeploy home. These antics are beyond disconcerting to those serving far from home. I know that well enough, I trained a hell of a lot of those who are now senior leaders. OT by a bit, went shopping at the local small supermarkets, around a 2 mile walk from home. Extra large eggs were at one market for $9.00, left them sit, large were $8.00, let that sleeping dog lie too. Ironically, the week before they were a buck less, but got a 10.39 pound ham for $6.11, which is now part frozen, part bagged in the fridge and the bone happily in the freezer door awaiting my pleasure of what soup to make out of it. Lamb was around the usual price. Pork was around average. Eggs are up due to bird flu wiping out entire flocks of hens. End of Jan, a report from Nevada reported bird flu in milk at dairy farms, then all flu and COVID reporting ceased from the government, per god-king's orders. Of course that'd happen, he was seven kinds of bent out of shape how the reports made his numbers look bad during the COVID-19 pandemic. Maybe I'll some green eggs and ham, like used to be made for me by Sam I Am. ;) Since my pantry is restocked again.
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  34. Tech genius Musk, who famously announced that the US government doesn't use SQL databases, still ignores a report thanking the US Treasury Department for their assistance in tracing a bug used in a compromise at Treasury of a PostrgreSQL server, which I guess isn't SQL because Emperor Musk says SQL isn't being used at all in government. And given the sheer number of Oracle databases I monitored compliance with for the government, Oracle isn't SQL either. Nor is MySQL or MSSQL. And his geniuses, the bestest in the universe, straight out of kindergarten are the super douper bestest, using out of the box configurations and passwords, no port filtering or shuttering of unused services and ignoring best business practices, totally the bestestestest. At getting pwned. I swear, it's like watching Wile E. Coyote opening up the latest package from Acme, ya know what's gonna happen next just ain't gonna go so well for the Coyote. Oh, the "not using SQL" was Musk's excuse for using WordPress, rather than oh, software that the US government has master site licenses for and hence, is bought and paid for. And the first thing one does when setting up a server is to disable services that aren't used, change default passwords, block ports that are not to be used externally. That's literally the first steps when loading the server - before it's put online to the production network, let alone the big bad open internet. Yep, the Coyote falling off the cliff again, wearing dynamite and a missile's heading toward his impact point - loaded with a nuke stolen because nobody was there to secure it. I've set up servers from bare metal up, put up sites, databases and well, a whale of a lot more, administered them, verified baseline configuration compliance, patch level compliance, etc. When I was done, I had the things reviewed by someone not in my chain of command. I got to review their work in return. Anything amiss got corrected. Then, I scanned the damned things with vulnerability scanners and when we used one of the nastier vulnerability scanner that could deliver some hostile payloads, those were the servers that we ran those specific tests upon. Some of those very servers lived on our DMZ and hence, were internet facing and provided services to external users. Not a one was compromised. Clint Eastwood famously addressed an empty chair at a convention, perhaps he should go to the White House and address that empty head.
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