And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
Dysfunctional. While sitting at the monitor the user can't see out the window. And, while trying to look at the monitor the light coming in the window will trash your occular glands. I know because I tried it.
Right you are, sir. I had several screens in my office, with one set up like this. Because some were on classified systems, every time those were on, I needed to draw the blinds, negating my nice view of the Catalina mountains from my 6th floor office, when the screen set up like this did me no good anyway.
There is Classified and then there is CLASSIFIED. Not everything has to be in a SKIF. Just fairly secured behind locked doors and VERY good puter security.
Over a 30+ year career, I worked in dozens of different types of controlled spaces, SCIFs and otherwise. Many SCIF spaces above the ground floor had windows, both USG and contractor sites. I was in a building that had some kind of conductive paint on the inside of the windows as shielding. It was transparent and I heard that there was gold in the paint composition, but I’m not certain if that was true or not.
It depended on the activity that needed protection. Some activities we did in a basement with lots of concrete and steel around us. Some activities were inside a screen room with copper shielding. As computer security changed over the years, some sites became more flexible and some applications got more strict. At every site, I would check in with the site security officer so I knew what rules applied so I could stay out of trouble. Also, as flat screens replaced giant CRT tubes, RF computer vulnerability assessment changed a lot. I did, in fact, spend a lot of time inside windowless spaces and was grateful when I worked in an office with at least some natural light from outdoors. Also, over the 30+ years, computer network security went from super primitive, to very mature requiring dedicated specialists.
I had a desk like that with two 19 inch monitors. My view was of Stone Mountain. I had the corner window cubical. On one of the monitors had a real-time camera window of the walkway to my desk. That was a position where I was paid to go to meetings.
$390 billion for background is a little steep.
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ReplyDeleteWhile sitting at the monitor the user can't see out the window.
And, while trying to look at the monitor the light coming in the window will trash your occular glands. I know because I tried it.
Right you are, sir. I had several screens in my office, with one set up like this. Because some were on classified systems, every time those were on, I needed to draw the blinds, negating my nice view of the Catalina mountains from my 6th floor office, when the screen set up like this did me no good anyway.
DeleteRob, your classified systems weren't in a windowless SCIF? Sounds odd...
DeleteThere is Classified and then there is CLASSIFIED.
DeleteNot everything has to be in a SKIF.
Just fairly secured behind locked doors and VERY good puter security.
Over a 30+ year career, I worked in dozens of different types of controlled spaces, SCIFs and otherwise. Many SCIF spaces above the ground floor had windows, both USG and contractor sites. I was in a building that had some kind of conductive paint on the inside of the windows as shielding. It was transparent and I heard that there was gold in the paint composition, but I’m not certain if that was true or not.
DeleteIt depended on the activity that needed protection. Some activities we did in a basement with lots of concrete and steel around us. Some activities were inside a screen room with copper shielding. As computer security changed over the years, some sites became more flexible and some applications got more strict. At every site, I would check in with the site security officer so I knew what rules applied so I could stay out of trouble. Also, as flat screens replaced giant CRT tubes, RF computer vulnerability assessment changed a lot. I did, in fact, spend a lot of time inside windowless spaces and was grateful when I worked in an office with at least some natural light from outdoors. Also, over the 30+ years, computer network security went from super primitive, to very mature requiring dedicated specialists.
Occular glands?
ReplyDeleteI see the x box sitting on the left side.
ReplyDeleteI had a desk like that with two 19 inch monitors. My view was of Stone Mountain. I had the corner window cubical. On one of the monitors had a real-time camera window of the walkway to my desk. That was a position where I was paid to go to meetings.
ReplyDeleteYou can look beyond the computer screen up toward the heavens when you're thinking and daydreaming. I do my best writing in that condition.
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