Category: English

NROL-39: Release the Kraken

A kraken devouring the earth captioned “Nothing is beyond our reach” is an official NRO spy satellite mission patch … you can’t make this shit up.

NROL-39 Payload Container (Source: United Launch Alliance via ODNI)
NROL-39 Payload Container (Source: United Launch Alliance via ODNI)
NROL-39 Mission Patch (Source: NASA Space Flight Forum)
NROL-39 Mission Patch (Source: NASA Space Flight Forum)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Update:

Arstechnica has something about this as well. 🙂

NROL-39 - Know Your Enemy
NROL-39 – Know Your Enemy 😛 (Source: Arstechnica Forum)

Unsafe Chrome Sometimes Necessary

In my work – every now and then – I found myself in need of a browser with reduced security checks (mainly to gloss over cross domain XMLHttpRequests and SSL certificate violations) for testing purposes. I didn’t want to take the risk and use my main browser session with these settings, so I made me a script (also available as a Gist). 🙂

Tip:
If you use oh my ZSH you can save this file in 

~/.oh-my-zsh/custom/plugins/chrome-unsafe/chrome-unsafe.plugin.zsh

and add “chrome-unsafe” to your list of used plugins in 

~/.zshrc