<story><title>Infosec implications of the US Capitol physical breach</title><url>https://twitter.com/neurovagrant/status/1346964347684179970</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ReaganFJones</author><text>I&amp;#x27;m not sure if it could be largely characterized as security theater. The videos from the Capitol demonstrate just how outmatched the police were: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;twitter.com&amp;#x2F;KySportsRadio&amp;#x2F;status&amp;#x2F;1347031398176223233&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;twitter.com&amp;#x2F;KySportsRadio&amp;#x2F;status&amp;#x2F;1347031398176223233&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;There were clear examples of failures like the police letting them in or taking selfies with them. We&amp;#x27;ll see what oversight gets applied to the Capitol police... &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.politico.com&amp;#x2F;news&amp;#x2F;2021&amp;#x2F;01&amp;#x2F;06&amp;#x2F;capitol-riots-police-firings-455698&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.politico.com&amp;#x2F;news&amp;#x2F;2021&amp;#x2F;01&amp;#x2F;06&amp;#x2F;capitol-riots-polic...&lt;/a&gt;</text></item><item><author>btmiller</author><text>In terms of physical intrusion, a tremendous amount of security theater was exposed today. Quite astonishing how easily people were able to gain access.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>quasse</author><text>&amp;gt;outmatched&lt;p&gt;I wouldn&amp;#x27;t say that&amp;#x27;s even a fair characterization. Per the capitol police website they have 2,600 officers and a budget of $460 million. It honestly just ... didn&amp;#x27;t look like they were trying very hard. They managed to arrest what, 14 people? Compare that to the BLM protests on the west coast where unmarked vans of feds were literally rolling up and black bagging people off the street.&lt;p&gt;USCP is charged with protecting Congress, and I think members of congress should be thinking hard about whether the police were complicit in what happened today.&lt;p&gt;[1] &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.uscp.gov&amp;#x2F;media-center&amp;#x2F;uscp-fast-facts&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.uscp.gov&amp;#x2F;media-center&amp;#x2F;uscp-fast-facts&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>
<story><title>Infosec implications of the US Capitol physical breach</title><url>https://twitter.com/neurovagrant/status/1346964347684179970</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ReaganFJones</author><text>I&amp;#x27;m not sure if it could be largely characterized as security theater. The videos from the Capitol demonstrate just how outmatched the police were: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;twitter.com&amp;#x2F;KySportsRadio&amp;#x2F;status&amp;#x2F;1347031398176223233&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;twitter.com&amp;#x2F;KySportsRadio&amp;#x2F;status&amp;#x2F;1347031398176223233&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;There were clear examples of failures like the police letting them in or taking selfies with them. We&amp;#x27;ll see what oversight gets applied to the Capitol police... &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.politico.com&amp;#x2F;news&amp;#x2F;2021&amp;#x2F;01&amp;#x2F;06&amp;#x2F;capitol-riots-police-firings-455698&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.politico.com&amp;#x2F;news&amp;#x2F;2021&amp;#x2F;01&amp;#x2F;06&amp;#x2F;capitol-riots-polic...&lt;/a&gt;</text></item><item><author>btmiller</author><text>In terms of physical intrusion, a tremendous amount of security theater was exposed today. Quite astonishing how easily people were able to gain access.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>preommr</author><text>&amp;gt; The videos from the Capitol demonstrate just how outmatched the police were&lt;p&gt;Not sure if I understand the point you&amp;#x27;re trying to make.&lt;p&gt;They shouldn&amp;#x27;t have been outmatched in the first place. The protest was planned and the information was extremely overt. Something went horribly wrong for this to happen.</text></comment>