Thursday, June 11, 2015

Without Hyperbole, This May Be the Greatest Single Intelligence Coup Ever. Ever.

Hackers stole personnel data and Social Security numbers for every federal employee, a government worker union said Thursday, saying that the cyber theft of U.S. employee information was more damaging than the Obama administration has acknowledged.

Update: Report: Hack of government employee records discovered by product demo

In other words, this was not discovered by the people who are paid millions to prevent and/or discover such things, but by some private citizen working for a private sector company just doing a day's job.

To quote from Paddy Chayefsky, "I've seen SNAFUs before, but this one has a certain splendor to it."

Ah, well.  Never mind.  Hey, did you see the cover of Vanity Fair?