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[–] 36 points 1 year ago* (5 children)

As if our government isn't more vulnerable than it already is.

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  • [–] 23 points 1 year ago (4 children)
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  • [–] 22 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    No, I genuinely do think the unsaid part of their game plan is to just destroy as much as they can, wherever they can, as they extract wealth from everything possible. And then they’ll try to bootstrap a techno-fascist feudal system, most likely.

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  • [–] 24 points 1 year ago (5 children)

    I'm starting to think he just likes writing his name on anything, just like he likes hearing his own voice and patting himself on the back diaper.

    He probably doesn't even read much of anything he signs.

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  • [–] [S] 19 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Cybersecurity practitioners are voicing concerns over a recent executive order issued by the White House that guts requirements for: securing software the government uses, punishing people who compromise sensitive networks, preparing new encryption schemes that will withstand attacks from quantum computers, and other existing controls.

    The executive order (EO), issued on June 6, reverses several key cybersecurity orders put in place by President Joe Biden, some as recently as a few days before his term ended in January. A statement that accompanied Donald Trump's EO said the Biden directives "attempted to sneak problematic and distracting issues into cybersecurity policy" and amounted to "political football."

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  • [–] 18 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

    The guy who famously doesn't ever use a computer, "writing" and "signing" an Executive Order about Cybersecurity while complaining about Biden using the autopen.

    It can't get any fucking stupider out here.

    Everything is computer!

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  • [–] 14 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    Extremely wise in light of the fact that we are going to war with an adversary that specializes in cyber warfare

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago*

    This policy brought to you by the party of "bird flu is everywhere and only vaccines got us through the recent pandemic, so cancel all vaccine research and stop distributing vaccines," and "climate change is already having devastating effects and will destroy everything we have if it continues to accelerate, so make renewable energy prohibitively difficult and expensive and attempt to expand the coal industry," and also "natural disasters are becoming more frequent and intense, so dismantle FEMA."

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  • [–] 21 points 1 year ago* (2 children)

    I am not savvy enough to understand the article at a technical level, but this says a lot about the right-wing mindset:

    Other changes mandated by the EO include:

    • Barring the Treasury Department from sanctioning people in the US who are involved in cyberattacks on US infrastructure. The accompanying White House statement said the change would prevent “misuse against domestic political opponents.”
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    [–] 3 points 1 year ago

    Cybersecurity practitioners are voicing concerns over a recent executive order issued by the White House that guts requirements for: securing software the government uses, punishing people who compromise sensitive networks, preparing new encryption schemes that will withstand attacks from quantum computers, and other existing controls.

    The executive order (EO), issued on June 6, reverses several key cybersecurity orders put in place by President Joe Biden, some as recently as a few days before his term ended in January. A statement that accompanied Donald Trump's EO said the Biden directives "attempted to sneak problematic and distracting issues into cybersecurity policy" and amounted to "political football."

    Madness.

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