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Navy officer lost job for secretly installing internet on warship to check social media (fortune.com)
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A U.S. Navy chief who wanted the internet so she and other enlisted officers could scroll social media, check sports scores and watch movies while deployed had an unauthorized Starlink satellite dish installed on a warship and lied to her commanding officer to keep it secret, according to investigators.

Internet access is restricted while a ship is underway to maintain bandwidth for military operations and to protect against cybersecurity threats.

The Navy quietly relieved Grisel Marrero, a command senior chief of the littoral combat ship USS Manchester, in August or September 2023, and released information on parts of the investigation this week.

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

Other way round. Scuttlebutt was the name for the casks of freshwater and then for the fountain. Sometime between those two eras it came to be the word for gossip because of the association with gossip being told around the scuttlebutt.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

Sometimes, the internet is lovely

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

It’s the original water cooler talk. Probably weren’t talking about tv shows, though