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		mpyne on April 8, 2014 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: OpenSSL Heartbleed Security Update They did compartmentalize. They still do. That's why having an insider with sysadmin access and prestige for social engineering purposes is so dangerous.

maxerickson on April 8, 2014 [–]

Yeah. We should still take Rumsfeld's advice about what we don't know.

mpyne on April 9, 2014 | [–]

Sure, the advice is still as sound as it ever was.

So was the advice about going to war with the Army you had, not the one you'd wished you had.

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