re: #224 Higgs Boson’s Mate

I’d bet that even if the information was strongly encrypted it would eventually be vulnerable. They could simply make everyone in China load a distributed computing application and brute force the fuck out of it.

This is really unbelievable. Back in the day, it was simply a given that no classified material be stored on a computer that was on the internet. No exceptions to the rule.

I fail to see how detailed personal information on everyone in the US that has a clearance would not itself count as classified information.

As for this business of filling out the SF-86 on-line, that is just ridiculous. That should be a paper form that is filled out and turned into a suitable government or contractor security office. If they need to move the forms around, that is what classified courier services are for. If the forms need to be archived on a computer, that is what computers isolated from the internet are for.

This shit is not hard. It is just costly. Which is why it has been effed up beyond belief. Some meathead somewhere thought that security could be made ‘efficient’.