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So this is the original NASA logo from 1959. Frankly, there's only so many combinations of rockets, planets, starts, and orbits you can put into "space" logos. If you didn't have the cultural history you'd still design space logos with these elements.
nasa.gov/audience/forst…
The arrowhead symbol used on Starflleet uniforms was designed by the costume designer for the original pilot episode.
memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Starfleet…
By the way, rockets back then were pretty curved things, like the V2 rocket or rockets you'd see in sci-fi. The Starfleet badge retains the early sci-fi curves.
The Air Force Space Command created a new emblem in 1982. It predates the Starfleet emblem that everyone else is passing around. Star Trek lifted from this as much as Space Force lifted from Star Trek -- if anybody copied anybody else.
afspc.af.mil/About-Us/AFSPC…
I made this sarcastic tweet to mock those mocking the Space Force logo. I thought it was common knowledge that the space shuttle Enterprise actually was named after the Star Trek Enterprise. Apparently, no so common knowledge.
But what I did learn from that thread is that Gene Roddenberry served on the USS Enterprise aircraft carrier in WWII.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Enter…
In any case, this is a good time to remind people that the the Army Intelligence command center at Fort Belvoir was actually designed by a Star Trek set designer, who was a relative of somebody who worked there.
foreignpolicy.com/2013/09/09/the…
Also, here are some logos for the Russian Space Force
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The Democrats stress that the failure of their Iowa Caucus app was not due to a "hack or intrusion". This is a purely arbitrary statement. I means they want people to believe that there's no hack or intrusion.
I mean, there probably was no hack. What I'm describing here is how people treat anomalies. We saw in the "Saudis hack Bezos" story how anything unexplained was explained by their predetermined theory, and thus, was "evidence" of that theory.
The same thing is going on here. They want not to have been hacked, so anomalies are explained as programmer failure.
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Attorneys won't provide legal advice for free or for a small fee, doctors won't look at your kid's rash, and really, cybersecurity professionals shouldn't be looking at people's computers.
One reason is the risk of being sued when there's a mistake -- you are asking them to accept a considerable financial risk for free.

The second reason is the a high chance of a mistake.
Let's ask a lawyer "Is port scanning legal?". What I don't tell them is that I'm running nmap with a script that also automatically logs onto the system, so when I get arrested for CFAA violations, I sue the lawyer who told me it was legal for legal malpractice.
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Rob ☃️ Graham (not at Shmoocon this year)
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At some point we have to call this "Saudi hacks Bezos" story "fake news". It's debunked, yet the media still pushes it. Sure, this story does point out it's purely "circumstantial', but then goes on to treat as almost certainly true.
As, as my non-technical and technical deep dives demonstrate, the FTI report contains no evidence of a hack. It's a conspiracy theory that treats things the investigators don't understand as evidence -- much like UFO believers.
blog.erratasec.com/2020/01/theres…
By "at some point" I mean, maybe not initially, when breaking news is always problematic. I mean a week later after people have had time to digest the story and fact check it, finding problems, and it's STILL treated as fact.
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