Child Tweets Gibberish From US Nuclear-Agency Account (bbc.com) 108
A young child inadvertently sparked confusion over the weekend by posting an unintelligible tweet to the official account of US Strategic Command. The BBC reports: The agency is responsible for safeguarding America's nuclear weapons. Some social-media users feared the account may have been hacked. But it has since been revealed a young member of the account's social-media manager's family was responsible for posting the tweet, ";l;;gmlxzssaw," which was then deleted within minutes.
At least all the kid did was mess with the phone (Score:4, Funny)
and not press the big red button.
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It's not apart of the U.S. defense system. The account can't affect any kind of national system. Laugh, and move on, nothing here.
Re:At least all the kid did was mess with the phon (Score:5, Funny)
"A young child inadvertently sparked confusion over the weekend by posting an unintelligible tweet"
Donald Trump did that every day for 4 years.
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Another place where the Trump doesn't pay the rent.
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Re:At least all the kid did was mess with the phon (Score:5, Insightful)
...and he still lives in your head 24/7
And 550K people do not. We inherited a trillion dollar deficit with no infrastructure or defense bill or nothing for that matter to show for it, an idiotically unwinnable pre-cold War Era trade war *that we lost* and that has cost us billions (us taxpayers bailing out farmers many of them who voted for this shit, yay me taxpayer yay!), zero legislation passed while the GOP controlled congress, and a bunch of idiotic executive orders for rolling back environmental regulations.
Actions. Reactions. Someone took a dump on a bucket, then poured red wine and burn motor oil on the bucket, then stirred it into a slush to then drop it on your carpet (which already needed cleaning) continuously for four years without giving you a chance to clean it up.
Now he's gone, leaving your carpet into a mess, and with the bucket which you need to find a way to dispose of it. So as you complain trying to decide whether to scrub the carpet or to get a new one, some jerk comes saying "hurr durr the shit-wine-oil bucket guy lives in your head, move on yolo lolz."
That's you.
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And 550K people do not. We inherited a trillion ....
Time to bring Truth to another fools life. Buffoon didn't kill 550,000 people. That was the direct fault of the Idiots in charge of the states that did that. Buffoon inherited a trillion dollar deficit from his predecessor. Who, in time, will be regarded as a far worse president that Buffoon ever was. The lack of infrastructure bills fall squarely on the shoulders of the fools in the democratic controlled congress. If Buffoon was right about anything it was calling China out of its trade policies.
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The truth hurts them. I realized that the moment the exact same people screaming "free Hong Kong" immediately shifted to "stop attacking China you racist" the moment covid-19 hit. Now it's just crickets. Weird how the masses of immigrants Biden invited to a border his party gutted are a crisis but literal slaves and genocide not so much....
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There's a reason the plastic cover over important buttons is called a Molly guard...
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haha.... nice! I did not know that. looks like it dates back to old big iron of the IBM variety.
Though it's just as funny that a computer would require a kill-switch, as if it were nuclear powered and might need to SCRAM the reactor, or they were afraid it was going to get out of control and go all skynet on them...
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Data centers still have that button, sometimes behind glass with a little hammer mounted next to it, labled EPO (Emergency Power Off). It's not in case of skynet (though it wouldn't surprise me much if some also have that label under them), it's in case of fire or severe electrical fault. Some are also wired to the fire suppression system so a halon discharge (which is not actually halon anymore) will also cause power off.
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Yeah I suppose especially in the case of a center that runs on lower DC voltage. (there are 48vdc rack setups) Then it'd be a safety thing, nobody wants to touch a 48v rack that's got a short in it.
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Nobody wants to go near a 408 volt 3 phase 50 amp circuit that might short any time now either!
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"Though it's just as funny that a computer would require a kill-switch"
Computers in those days had spinning hardrives that weighed hundreds of pounds and circuitry with hundreds of volts of current. If somebody got crossways of that, yeah, you needed to shut it down NOW. Not to mention the fire hazards.
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I'm familiar with the really old ones - think "washing machine on spin cycle" when running - both the sound, and the energy. They DO have a bake, but the purpose is to stop it from moving during transport and while turned off. The brake isn't even remotely strong enough to stop it while it's spinning. Turning those off they just let them spin down on their own.
Good stories online though tell about what happens when the brake "accidentally engages". The energy from the spinning platter array is enough th
HAckers get younger (Score:2)
Hackers get younger and younger
Re: Child Tweets Gibberish (Score:1, Flamebait)
Flamebait? really?? who's tipping desks over "covfefe"...!?
Re:Child Tweets Gibberish (Score:5, Informative)
Nope, for Covfefe they tried to claim it meant something:
"The president and a small group of people know exactly what he meant." - Sean Spicer, White House Press Secretary
It's just like the 4 Seasons Landscaping clusterfuck. Even after being called on their stupidity, this crowd always doubles down to prove just how stupid they really are.
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Teachers here (BC) have the 2nd highest number of work related Covid cases. So depending on what you call safe.
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Republicans hate teachers and are eager to kill them and their unions
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Socialist government here, well, they removed the socialist part of their self description a decade ago. In other words, not America.
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In the context of the original Trump tweet containing the term, it most definitely did mean something.
It meant "coverage".
The fact that Trump mistyped it and it came out misspelled as what would otherwise be a nonsensical word does not mean that the word did not mean anything.
The situation was only made absurd when Spicer (falsely) claimed that only a small group of people knew what Trump was talking about.
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In the context of the original Trump tweet containing the term, it most definitely did mean something.
It meant "coverage".
The fact that Trump mistyped it and it came out misspelled as what would otherwise be a nonsensical word does not mean that the word did not mean anything.
The situation was only made absurd when Spicer (falsely) claimed that only a small group of people knew what Trump was talking about.
Still, imagine being so stupid that covefe got blurted out and that instead of tweeting a correction, or deleting it (or I dunno, the million rational possibilities available to people with two functioning neurons), he just... left it there.
For a man that claimed to know all about winning personal image, that wasn't a window into his stupidity, it was a whole garage door opened all the way up.
And just imagine how stupid his voters are that they 1) see that covfefe thing and are like "ohm fourth-dimensio
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The fact that you still have TDS about a single mistaken midnight tweet says much more about you than it says about Trump. And for the record, I think Trump was an idiot.
Yeah, scare the military into WFH (Score:2)
You can drone some third world fuck from an app sitting in your pjs at home, so what's the big deal?
Re: Yeah, scare the military into WFH (Score:2, Informative)
That's how Obama did it...
Everybody to the limit, everybody to the DEFCON, (Score:3)
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I see you joshin me
Actin like... You know me
Lock your keyboard when you go to the bathroom (Score:1)
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US Strategic Command: TentaclesHentai.com
Lock your bathroom when you go to the keyboard (Score:2)
And Lock your bathroom when you go to the keyboard.
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Lock your keyboard when you go to the bathroom, It only takes a minute.
It only takes a minute, 15-30 times an hour when you have small children around. If you haven't had your own, you'll never understand.
Ladies and Gentleman... (Score:1)
'Hey, sure, let the baby play with the phone with the nuclear codes.'
Re:Ladies and Gentleman... (Score:5, Insightful)
I think the story is overblown. The twitter account was used from a normal computer. The child did not have to pass by 12 different security guards, use 7 different biometric scans, and then sit down to type gibberish next to the big red button. This was a PR person working at home twittering out stuff of interest.
Now if the social media employee actually happened to be the same person that was responsible for launching nukes then there would need to be some serious questions. If this were possible to do from home, then we're all doomed anyway if that person ever gets a cat.
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Didn't you hear? Since 2017, it's been possible for the President to order a nuclear strike via a specially-constructed Tweet.
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Glad it wasn't an eight year old (Score:2)
Fortunately it was a small child who typed random characters.
So just funny.
If it had been a mischievous eight year old who thought it would be funny to put something like "NK BOOM", that would have been more - interesting.
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That kind of "unattended" had to be against policy. Of course it's a fucking manager who's more likely to get promoted than a wrist slap.
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These kind of organisations have their own website to publish important messages, using commercial 'social' media for anything but laughs is just plain stupid.
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Really? What kind of important messages do you image any of them ever publish? No, it's about PR, and it is social.
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Why do governments in the U.S. use inane Twitter to communicate?
Re: Ladies and Gentleman... (Score:5, Insightful)
Oh p!ease!
Its a Twitter account, not "The Football" - stop acting like the soldiers around the world are sitting around waiting for coded messages to be passes over a public Twitter account... I'm pretty sure the military has a command and control infrastructure that doesn't rely on a public Twitter account.
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I'm pretty sure the military has a command and control infrastructure that doesn't rely on a public Twitter account.
Not so sure. Biden had to reward Jack somehow for censoring the Hunter Biden fiasco which likely won him the election.
Re: Ladies and Gentleman... (Score:2)
Its a PR/Press Release Twitter account, stop pretending it means anything to anyone outside the news media or other military PR departments.
not gibberish (Score:4, Insightful)
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That would have been hilarious! Nobody in Russia would have taken it seriously, though communications would have occurred to say WTF. They don't have the snowflakes that we have here.
Ctrl-Alt-Delete (Score:2)
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no, a hammer is quicker.
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no, a hammer is quicker.
Only in Hollywood does smashing the screen with a hammer turn off the computer...
For that matter, you could batter away at the case of my desktop with a hammer for quite some time without ever shutting it off. It's a fairly thick gauge of steel.
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could we solve this problem with a bigger hammer ?
You can't tweet in here! (Score:3, Interesting)
This is the War Room!!!
It was disturbing to see the prestigious White House occupant tweeting nonsense for four years. It may be even more disturbing to know that our military has a social media account. For what? Don't they have a public-facing web site to communicate with citizens? Why would they dirty themselve in the same sewer where Trump played?
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For the same reason that virtually every large organization has those very same type of accounts. Do you imagine that Biden isn't in that sewer? He is https://twitter.com/joebiden?l... [twitter.com] but his handlers won't allow him to get near it for the same reason they won't allow him to have press conferences his mind is shot.
Off topic: SLASHDOT, Fix your fucking ASCII art filter. It's wrong half the time anyone tries to post a link.
Stop using twitter (Score:2)
I had hoped that with Trump out of office, that we'd stop paying attention to Twitter as if it's an official communications tool for any government department.
Chinese? (Score:2)
Are they sure it wasn't the Chinese? They get the blame for everything these days.
Re:Chinese? (Score:5, Interesting)
Are they sure it wasn't the Chinese? They get the blame for everything these days.
Considering the CCP has had major success [americanmilitarynews.com] infiltrating the Republican party and the White House [salon.com], not to mention having a plan to use its citizens to gather useful information in return for money [thehill.com], it's not that far fetched.
What it actually was (Score:5, Funny)
Is a coded message from Q confirming that Trump is really still in charge.
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Is a coded message from Q confirming that Trump is really still in charge.
Naw. Even QAnon is wondering what happened [tumblr.com].
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Damn you, Deep State!
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Oddly enough, when you put the string ";l;;gmlxzssaw," into that server, "Q ACQUITTED" is the top result... o.O
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Why would Q bother with 21st Century Earth politics? He seems to prefer antagonizing Starfleet captains.
Wait... (Score:2)
Isn't that just the origin story of Freakazoid, maybe mixed with Weird Science?
Ryan Fenton
Covfefe! (Score:1)
Sorry, couldn't resist.
Re: Covfefe! (Score:2)
Should have tried harder!
Re: Some PR guy can create panic from home (Score:2)
There are 190K followers for that account - it consists almost entirely if Strategic Command soldiers, their family!y, and veterans that served in Star rigid Command, and a handful of reporters. Who, exactly, actually saw the tweet and thought it was anything meaningful or significant?
No one.
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I don't have a bunker, you insensitive cl{#`%${%&`+'${`%&NO CARRIER
Skyking (Score:3)
Skyking Skyking Skyking ;l;;gmlxzssaw ;l;;gmlxzssaw
Skyking Skyking Skyking
(if you don't get it - it wasn't for you)
Greetings (Score:3)
GREETINGS PROFESSOR FALKEN
SHALL WE PLAY A GAME?
“;l;;gmlxzssaw"
(double flash)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?... [youtube.com]
Its a public relations Twitter account (Score:2)
Here, take a look - its for distributing press releases to the media and the public, nothing more... Why does every seem to think its tied to the Nuclear Football? [wikipedia.org]
@USStratCom
Re: Its a public relations Twitter account (Score:2)
The Twitter account is @US_StratCom [twitter.com]
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I repeat. None. Something like this makes the public facing account for such a government organization look very bad and insecure. It looks untrustworthy at worst and run by monkeys at best. They should have an approval process in place. Someone needs to be replaced.
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We know it isn't, but it is fun to make fun of incompetence where there should be absolutely none.
Seriously? It's some PR guy running a twitter account for the government. I can't imagine anything but incompetence.
Them having a Twitter account is threat enough. (Score:1)
At that point you have to assume a mindset, so batshit insane, that really, anything else doesn't matter anymore.
Something's gonna blow up in a nuclear explosion anytime soon, either way. Or worse.
They changed it... (Score:2)
Would you like to play a game? (Score:1)
Why does SAC have a Twitter account? (Score:2)
Bypassing security at the US Strategic Command... (Score:1)