It rained tonight. I was walking around the camp because I had a couple places to go before I wrote my blog and went to bed. I wanted to observe the Salsa dance night held in the DFAC overflow tent, and I also wanted to stop by where some of my coworkers were having a cigar night at one of the smoking gazebos. The Salsa night that looked more like a dark junior high dance with flashing lights and all those in attendance were sitting in chairs along the sides. I didn't take long to have my fill of that train wreck. It had been lightning and sprinkling slightly when I walked out to the gazebo. The smell of ozone in the air helped to mask the dust and smell of burning trash. Just as I was walking back in, the bottom fell out of the sky. Hopefully it will wash a lot of the pollution out of the air.
I had a scare earlier this evening. As I've talked about before, we have three networks in our office each with a different level of classification. We're allowed to use our unclassified network for limited personal use such as email, Facebook, personal banking, news reading, etc. Even though it's an open network connection to the Internet for unclassified work, there are still filters on it stopping access to sites like pornography, gambling, hacking, file sharing, blogging (I do this from my private connection in my room), etc. Part of this firewall doesn't allow posted pictures in Facebook to be viewed as thumbnails, so you have to click on them to see what they are. A Facebook acquaintance also in Afghanistan posted some pictures of porn on his wall without identifying what they were. Needless to say when I looked at what he had posted I was freaked out to see pornography flash upon my screen. I ended up unfriending this person for their serious lapse in judgement, I cleaned out the cache in my computer, and told one of the people in my office just in case the network people come looking for me. Last thing I need is to be charged with accessing Internet porn in an Islamic country.
Our computer classification system is complicated. As I said, we have an unclassified network that we do the bulk of our work on. This is the case because everything we do as reconstruction should be unclassified and part of the public record. That's not to say that the information cannot still be marked confidential (such as personal data) or FOUO (For Official Use Only). We also have a secret network. No national security secrets her, but it does contain data and information that is sensitive to the war efforts with respect to operational security. Typically this is only accessible to U.S. forces. Finally we have a classified system for use by the multi-national forces. This way, we can maintain our own security on our own network and only share with our allies the information they need to see to accomplish our mission.
We even have stickers to put on all computer systems to remind us what system we are working on and the associated level of classification. Keeping all this straight is extremely important to the point that severe punitive punishment is a consequence if classified data is "spilled" onto the wrong network. Although much of it is automated and protected from loss or theft. Thanks to and PFC Bradley Manning and Julian Assange of Wikileaks, just about any way to remove classified data from it's associated network such as thumb drives, CD/DVD burning, etc. has been shut down. On the advice of a friend, I think I'll label myself secret so that nobody without a clearance can bother me. At least maybe in my secret squirrel mind.
More to follow.
I had a scare earlier this evening. As I've talked about before, we have three networks in our office each with a different level of classification. We're allowed to use our unclassified network for limited personal use such as email, Facebook, personal banking, news reading, etc. Even though it's an open network connection to the Internet for unclassified work, there are still filters on it stopping access to sites like pornography, gambling, hacking, file sharing, blogging (I do this from my private connection in my room), etc. Part of this firewall doesn't allow posted pictures in Facebook to be viewed as thumbnails, so you have to click on them to see what they are. A Facebook acquaintance also in Afghanistan posted some pictures of porn on his wall without identifying what they were. Needless to say when I looked at what he had posted I was freaked out to see pornography flash upon my screen. I ended up unfriending this person for their serious lapse in judgement, I cleaned out the cache in my computer, and told one of the people in my office just in case the network people come looking for me. Last thing I need is to be charged with accessing Internet porn in an Islamic country.
Our computer classification system is complicated. As I said, we have an unclassified network that we do the bulk of our work on. This is the case because everything we do as reconstruction should be unclassified and part of the public record. That's not to say that the information cannot still be marked confidential (such as personal data) or FOUO (For Official Use Only). We also have a secret network. No national security secrets her, but it does contain data and information that is sensitive to the war efforts with respect to operational security. Typically this is only accessible to U.S. forces. Finally we have a classified system for use by the multi-national forces. This way, we can maintain our own security on our own network and only share with our allies the information they need to see to accomplish our mission.
We even have stickers to put on all computer systems to remind us what system we are working on and the associated level of classification. Keeping all this straight is extremely important to the point that severe punitive punishment is a consequence if classified data is "spilled" onto the wrong network. Although much of it is automated and protected from loss or theft. Thanks to and PFC Bradley Manning and Julian Assange of Wikileaks, just about any way to remove classified data from it's associated network such as thumb drives, CD/DVD burning, etc. has been shut down. On the advice of a friend, I think I'll label myself secret so that nobody without a clearance can bother me. At least maybe in my secret squirrel mind.
More to follow.
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