US Missile Defense Staff Told To Stop Watching Porn

[ElNono]

"John James Jr., director of the U.S. Missile Defense Agency, who is responsible for the nation's missile defense system, recently sent out a one-page memo warning employees and contractors to stop using agency computers to visit pornographic Web sites (http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-08-01/missile-defense-staff-warned-to-stop-surfing-porn-sites.html). That's right; apparently they were watching the wrong type of bombshells (http://www.zdnet.com/us-missile-defense-staff-told-to-stop-watching-porn-7000002063/)."

[boutons_deux]

"Christian" hater from hate group chimes in

Fischer Discovers Proof that Pornography is not a Victimless Crime

http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/fischer-discovers-proof-pornography-not-victimless-crime

[AFBlue]

Never got an e-mail about it in my Air Force days, but you'd hear about "crackdowns" every now and again. For it to be serious enough for public acknowledgment is pretty embarrassing.

[LnGrrrR]

Uhm... Why don't they just have those sites blocked by the proxies?

Reading the memo, I wouldn't be surprised if it was sexting going on, moreso than actual porn sites.

[mouse]

Oh great! not only are we on planet Earth concerned those trigger happy men may one day get drunk and high and accidentally blow up the planet because the office Xbox broke down, but now we also want them to be sexually frustrated to boot?

[baseline bum]

See LnGrrrR, you will have something to do at Cannon AFB after all! :tu

[NoiNoiPinoy]

Never got an e-mail about it in my Air Force days, but you'd hear about "crackdowns" every now and again. For it to be serious enough for public acknowledgment is pretty embarrassing.

You were able to go to porn sites on base? Shit, I can't even log in to my school e-mail where I'm at.

[AussieFanKurt]

Let them view porn... to an extent. We don't want them becoming like catholic priests

[NoiNoiPinoy]

Let them view porn... to an extent. We don't want them becoming like catholic priests

The military/govt has been over the top when it comes to anything remotely related to nuclear since some dudes in 08 fucked up by flying a bomber loaded with nukes over the US. The crew didn't even know they had it.

[LnGrrrR]

The military/govt has been over the top when it comes to anything remotely related to nuclear since some dudes in 08 fucked up by flying a bomber loaded with nukes over the US. The crew didn't even know they had it.

To be fair, being over the top about an incident like that is probably an appropriate reaction. :lol

[coyotes_geek]

The military/govt has been over the top when it comes to anything remotely related to nuclear since some dudes in 08 fucked up by flying a bomber loaded with nukes over the US. The crew didn't even know they had it.

I remember seeing a documentary about that. Pretty scary stuff. Fortunately Christian Slater was able to stop John Travolta and save the day.

[z0sa]

I remember seeing a documentary about that. Pretty scary stuff. Fortunately Christian Slater was able to stop John Travolta and save the day.

:lol

[coyotes_geek]

i can't believe they still let howie long on tv after the shit he pulled

Yeah but Howie played for the Raiders and you've pretty much just got to laugh it off and accept that those guys are going to be knuckleheads from time to time. Besides, all he tried to do was steal some nuclear weapons. It's not like he was running a bounty program or anything.

[NoiNoiPinoy]

To be fair, being over the top about an incident like that is probably an appropriate reaction. :lol

Haha yeah. I was actually in officer training at Maxwell when the Air Force bigwigs were canned. They really started being assholes to us after that.

I'm just complaining cuz of how specific I have to be when documenting appts with peeps that have direct access to ICBMs. Its totally warranted though. Don't want someone spacing out on Vicodin and launch something haha.

[LnGrrrR]

Haha yeah. I was actually in officer training at Maxwell when the Air Force bigwigs were canned. They really started being assholes to us after that.

I'm just complaining cuz of how specific I have to be when documenting appts with peeps that have direct access to ICBMs. Its totally warranted though. Don't want someone spacing out on Vicodin and launch something haha.

I was deployed to Al Dhafra and the Secretary stopped by... And he was fired a few months later.

[NoiNoiPinoy]

I was deployed to Al Dhafra and the Secretary stopped by... And he was fired a few months later.

You know what's a good base overseas? When my residency is over I'm considering it.

[Agloco]

See LnGrrrR, you will have something to do at Cannon AFB after all! :tu

:lol

[Winehole23]

Never got an e-mail about it in my Air Force days, but you'd hear about "crackdowns" every now and again. For it to be serious enough for public acknowledgment is pretty embarrassing.http://news.yahoo.com/ap-exclusive-air-force-sidelines-17-icbm-officers-070914385.html

[Winehole23]

Remember all those cold war movies where nuclear missile crews are frantically dialing in the secret codes sent by the White House to launch nuclear-tipped intercontinental ballistic missiles? Well, for two decades, all the Minuteman nuclear missiles in the US used the same eight-digit numeric passcode to enable their warheads: 00000000.


That fact, originally revealed in a column in 2004 (http://web.archive.org/web/20040404013440/http://www.cdi.org/blair/permissive-action-links.cfm)by then-president of the Center for Defense Information Dr. Bruce G. Blair, a former US Air Force officer who manned Minuteman silos, was also mentioned in a paper (https://www.cs.columbia.edu/%7Esmb/nsam-160/pal.html) by Steven M. Bellovin (https://www.cs.columbia.edu/%7Esmb/blog/control/), a computer science professor at Columbia University who teaches security architecture. Both of these sources were cited this week in an article on the site Today I Found Out written by Karl Smallwood (http://www.todayifoundout.com/index.php/2013/11/nearly-two-decades-nuclear-launch-code-minuteman-silos-united-states-00000000/), as well as in an article in the UK's Daily Mail.


The codes, known as Permissive Action Links (PALs), were supposed to prevent the use of nuclear weapons—and the nuclear weapons under joint control with NATO countries in particular—without the authorization of the president of the United States. The need for such controls became clear during the 1963-1964 Cyprus crisis, when NATO members Turkey and Greece were reportedly seeking control of NATO nuclear weapons—to use on each other.

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2013/12/launch-code-for-us-nukes-was-00000000-for-20-years/

[Wild Cobra]

I'd like to see the verified. That looks too much like bullshit to me, having served in the nuclear theater for six years.

[Winehole23]

there are embedded links, if you care to follow them.

[boutons_deux]

WC in "theatre"? musta been comedy!

[Winehole23]

(in b4 no thanks, I'm too busy today and I won't dignify that obvious bullshit by wasting any time on it)

[clambake]

but he knew where all the nukes were.

[Wild Cobra]

but he knew where all the nukes were.

No.

Just some of them.

Do you take pride in always being wrong?

[Wild Cobra]

there are embedded links, if you care to follow them.
It's still the words of one man, and I did searches. The author of the article cited has no integrity. He lied about the 20 years. How much more of it did he make up? The guy that worked at these places claimed a 15 year period. Not 20. It had to do with the manual systems. The period was also 1962 to 1977.

Did you do independent searches outside of the links?

I did!

If such a thing was true, then this was an extra security measure not deemed to be needed. There would have been other security in place. Since this is before my time in the theater, it is possible such a [probable] redundant systems way effectively "jumpered out" that way. I'm very certain that even in the early days, safeguarding from rouge usage was maximized.

[Wild Cobra]

WC in "theatre"? musta been comedy!

link: An Explanation of Nuclear Weapons Terminology (http://www.wagingpeace.org/articles/2007/11/29_starr_explanation_terminology.php)

“Tactical” nuclear weapons

This is an older term which is no longer useful in describing the explosive size of nuclear weapons (many modern versions of these weapons can have large yields). “Tactical” now infers that the weapon is used for limited, or “theater” military operations, but not long-range intercontinental missions. Thus, the term “non-strategic weapon” is more appropriate.

[clambake]

you said you knew where all of them were. lol

[Wild Cobra]

you said you knew where all of them were. lol

Bullshit. Proving you are a chronic liar as well today.

Link please.

[clambake]

you can lie about it. doesn't bother me.

[Wild Cobra]

you can lie about it. doesn't bother me.
You really should stop speaking into the mirror.

[Winehole23]

lol rouge usage.

as ever, you unintentionally impress, WC.

[The Reckoning]

surprised they weren't 90210000 or 18675309