Retired Army Colonel John Mills
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first heard Nov 2024
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I've asked him on a number of also is, so what happens if any of this information gets out on what you did? And you know what his response was? Essentially words to the exact effect, couldn't care less. Why? Because I'm already 10 miles down the road on my fifth subsequent operation. Who cares if it gets out?
Because if some bad person is reading this, it may be the last thing they're doing before they're filled with lead or go to pieces. I mean, this is, listen, it's all about, there's two key concepts. the velocity of operations. In the modern era, it's always you got to outpace, you got to be so far ahead, just like number 47 is so far ahead of the opposition. You got to always be way down the road.
So, what if this gets out there? By the time they make sense out of it, I mean, you've already run over them 20 times, who cares?
Yeah. Again, commercial products are the trend. There's many commercial products approved, okay? And for use behind the firewall, many. So, I mean, we got to get past that. Now, this was, I think you brought up an important point, everything, all roads lead to China. This is a Chinese integrated operation. The Houthis are part of the Chinese-led operation to topple America.
China has the Ministry of State Security and their integrated cyber operations. They copy. They copy us. They do everything we do. They copy it and they play it right back at us. So, their big data analytics are pretty ferocious with none of the legal guardrails that we supposedly have. We don't have them if you have an R behind your name. But the...
So, yeah, but again, velocity, velocity, velocity. So, the Chinese have a ferocious data analytics, a ferocious big data, which they've essentially a big collection system. And look at the, well, don't look at them. I'm not allowed to look at them, but look at all the files that Snowden.
A guy who passed his polygraph, let me remind everybody, a guy who passed it multiple times, his full stroke poly. Interesting. That's another issue.
A good friend of mine, Save Christian, is dealing with multiple no-goes on his polygraph. Hmm. Isn't that interesting? They catch saved evangelical Christians, but they don't save, you know, what was it, reality winner, NSA Georgia? Hmm. Didn't catch her. Yeah, didn't catch Snowden. Didn't catch a bunch of people. Oh, yo, you know, who's the... Well, you don't catch people...
Holograph consumes an enormous amount of our counterintelligence resources. Absolutely. I think we need to invert that whole model. That should be used on an exception basis in very targeted situations. But it consumes, if people would see the budget books, which they're not supposed to see because they're classified, it consumes an enormous amount of resources that just
Look, look how many that this this one CIA officer recently who the Biden team was just chewing off a leg of Israel. Give us your war plans against Iran. And they got him in 30 seconds later. Iran had him because a CIA officer who was fully gave him, you know, there you go. Yeah.
bottom line um if there if there has and i and i i know i said and spoke ill of our nsa brothers please forgive me uh and stop surveilling me but uh if there is a modicum of a check it's approved again you have to presume breach even on the higher level networks now i'm not gonna I'm not going to say yes or no, whether we've been breached on there, etc. You have to presume breach.
It's velocity, velocity, velocity in the modern era of the operations. And, okay, you know, I also, I wrote a sub-stack piece on this that contained many enumerated points. You know, one of them is...
Because at first, when I first wrote this, I wasn't clear on whether signal was, was this their personal signal or was this signal approved and behind the firewall, which on the end pass can still reach out to the general public beyond the .mil, the .gov, etc., Okay. So, it appears it was behind the firewall and they had Goldberg's telephone number. Okay. Oops.
But then also, I wrote a piece on that because contact lists are complex databases and even without malicious behavior, they can become confused. The databases can become confused, especially when you're using them across multiple platforms. Guess what?
Even without malicious behavior, they can start transferring data and messing up contact lists and the- I mean, honestly, I think a lot of people out there in the general population have had that experience, right?
I was brought into the cyber world in 2006 by my NSA boss. I didn't work for NSA, but he needed a planner. He didn't need a career IT person who had knuckledragged or had spent all their life connecting and disconnecting cables. I mean, he needed a planner to be the senior department defense representative to the interagency program called the Comprehensive National Cybersecurity Initiative.
And so, we learned a lot of things in that, but we learned about offense, we learned about defense, but again, velocity is important. You've got that, what you brought up several times is so important.
If you are doing so good in security that everything is just so clamped down that, you know, oh boy, well, you know, and let's not even talk about people using end arounds just to try to accomplish the mission, but you got it so clamped down that it's so complex to do anything. Well, guess what? The enemy is accomplishing their objectives anyway because they've shut you down.
And this is a hard thing for the career CIO or chief information officer or chief information security officer to get their heads around because they're going to, we're coming up with the perfect scenario. Remember CIOs and CISOs, you are not the main thing. You are an enabler to the main thing.
So you do have to consider ease of use because what you do is if you make it so difficult, either people are not getting anything done or- People are going around and creating opportunities.
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