Re: [nonrelevant] 2019 military hacking quip article online

On Sun, Dec 27, 2020 at 9:02 PM coderman wrote:

‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ On Saturday, December 26, 2020 6:00 PM, Karl wrote: ...

I'm not familiar with SF-86 or OPM.

SF-86 is the name of the form that US intelligence community members fill out during their vetting process for access to classified information.

china stole all of these documents from the US via a hack of the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) who actually administers the background checks and clearance process for the intelligence community.

thanks ... i guess i could have looked that up ... always sketchy when somebody says it's known who did an international hack. implies either international hackers don't know how to actually hide who they are, government security workers place blame too readily, the public is being lied to, or the international security communities are staring at each oter all day, letting each other do everything, only stopping it afterwards. or all of those, i suppose. am i wrong?

thus, if someone published the SF-86 database, we could make sure no spooks are working under cover on open source projects (presumably in bad faith).

could be replaced .. would be a great leak though