this is an infinitely bigger deal than apple or google. Those just mean you have to use the browser as opposed to the app. This means Parler is off the web altogether. Also, depending on their set up, moving off aws may require non trivial rearchitecting of their site.
2/ For non-techs, Amazon’s AWS system is a highly turnkey set up, very dynamic and extensible. If you’re making use of those features it’s not the kind of thing where you move a word doc to a new computer. If there’s no plan in place I’d figure at least days before back up.
3/ A least the engineers in the thread think my “at least days” is wildly optimistic. I’m no tech. I’ve just worked with techs long enough to know it’s a big task. The other point. Normally you could go to another cloud platform and at least make use of their tools.
4/ But the odds of another industry standard cloud/virtualization service taking them on right now seem close to nil. That leaves a lot of non-corporate smaller scale options. But those means building the sysadmin and architecture from scratch. And that is a massive ...
5/ undertaking.
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Perhaps there will be superseding indictments but I worry greatly that the insurrectionists who've been arrested so far are being undercharged.
If you break into the Capitol armed (doesn't have to be guns) and rifle through congressional offices there are basically a million crimes you can be charged with. Way more than simple trespass. Many of the indictments amount to, went into prohibited area, stole a chair.
3/ This was a violent insurrection aimed at the seat of government with the intent of overturning a presidential election. A core of the insurrectionists wanted to take congressional leaders hostage. If you don't send a strong signal you'll get much, much worse.
Very important thread. The sort of reconstruction bellingcat excels at. Multiple videos synchronized from multiple angles showing precisely what was happening when Ashli Babbitt was shot. A mob was pushing against a barricaded Speakers lobby, which leads into the House ...
2/ Chamber. This was at the point when members were still barricaded in the chamber. A capitol police office is holding a trained gun on the crowd. Babbitt begins to climb through the shattered window, is warned to stop. Then the police officer fires a single shot and she ...
I think of myself as pretty prescient about Trump stuff. But, damn, this is one helluva thread. Not only predicts the insurrection yesterday but the precise modalities and triggers. The mob was clearly there for trouble from the start. And I suspect we'll find out much more ...
2/ about a core of insurrectionists who planned this out in some detail. But the spark that really lit it off is when the crowd heard that Pence had "betrayed" them and that there was no more hope. Also, he's right. Cap Police don't have riot control training and ...
3/ beyond that, they're really neither equipped or designed for that kind of situation. In real national security events they are always just one layer of protection with much more high capacity security operating in tandem. It's not an excuse. It's a huge failure.
Certainly a basic problem here is that Capitol Police, under the jurisdiction of Congress, were not prepared for yesterday's attack. But when we ask what happened yesterday, a significant part of the equation is that the various agencies charged with handling such ...
2/ situations - federal marshalls, DHS, FBI, DOJ, National Guard, et al - were under the control of the person who was trying to whip the crowd against Congress. This doesn't mean necessarily that the people running these agencies were intentionally standing down or assisting ...
3/ necessarily. But in terms of thinking, hey, volatile situation in DC tomorrow, how do we safeguard critical infrastructure, coordinate to protect the capitol, federal buildings, etc. are they really going to be proactive when the person they all report to is on the ...
Lot of tea leaves here. But on this decision to bring in the Nat Guard, some reports say Sec Def and Chair of JCS simply didn't talk to Trump and Pence gave the order. In those reports Trump's portrayed as just checked out, uninterested. But other reports say that ...
2/ Trump at first "resisted" the idea the of calling in the Nat Guard, apparently because he liked what he was seeing with storming the Capitol. The most plausible explanation of this reporting is that President Trump refused to authorize this and the people around him ...
3/ either overruled him or just ignored him. Now perhaps it didn't happen directly. Maybe they knew he was going to say know and they just didn't ask him. Note too hints that the National Security Advisor is preparing to resign and supporting Pence over Trump.