It's National Security! Trump got a vaccine in what, two weeks? Find the hackers and stomp them hard to make a point! Biden will discuss it with Putin in two weeks. What a hero.
@Budwick you know better than the...trump made the vaccine thing, too. I think he may do better at rebuking putin than the last guy ever did. He was happy bending to putin. And...it's all on tape.
Just sounds like regular governement problems. This has been happening all over the world, including in the US during the Trump years. But I guess this wasn't important enough to talk about in 2017-2020, but it seems really concerning now... wonder why that is. 🤣
“Our research has shown that most American local governments do a poor job practicing cybersecurity. They must do better. And they can start by establishing a culture of cybersecurity throughout their organizations to best protect citizen information and maintain continuous service delivery.” — Donald F. Norris, PhD, Professor Emeritus, UMBC; Laura Mateczun, JD, PhD student in Public Policy, UMBC., Cyberattacks at the Grass Roots: American Local Governments and the Need for High Levels of Cybersecurity (published in: PAR, volume 79, issue 6 of 2019)
I heard about Martha's Vineyard. I think that was trying to get Obama's attention...so that he could box Biden's ears.
The Russians are trying to show us that they can shut down the whole country if they want to, just like the movie Live Free or Die Hard. The idea that was thrown out there that this is "just the work of free lance Russian hackers" is wishful thinking. Putin is directing it.
If Biden keeps denying it, then he doesn't have to do anything...and he probably doesn't want to do anything, because it would disturb his naps.
Still, since we do NOT want a centralized, bloated government running the entire show...with their cyber fingers in every single jelly donut...private industry is going to have to put on their big boy pants and step up to the plate.
I have said this before...their failure to protect their cyber systems is on them.
PC Matic advertises constantly. They can block ransonware. They are on television so often they are in danger of edging out the My Pillow guy.
Private industry has to stop being so damned cheap, and they have to take some responsibility for protecting THEMSELVES.
And not JUST because we like or need to eat beef, or because Southerners need gas, or because Obama is stuck on fantasy island.
It's in their own self interest. You can't make money if you are shut down, and you aren't making a profit for your shareholders if you are paying ginormous ransoms.
Budwick thinks part of the president's job description is cybersecurity for national security. Nation wide food and fuel supplies would be part of that.
@LordShadowfire doesn't give a rats ass about national security.
@Budwick Then why did you back up a president that didn't increase the budget when it comes to cybersecurity? And also diminished the budget with 119 milion in 2019 after a year full of ransomware attacks and hacking attempts?
@curiosi whoever is behind these attacks, my guess is that they smell fear and sense weakness in the Biden administration and will continue to exploit their abilities going as far as they can to do whatever damage they can. How much of the Green New Deal’s ( not infrastructure) 6 Trillion is going into cyber security?
back before they became politically biased and spent all their time trying to conjure up evidence of collusion on political candidates, this is what we had an FBI and CIA for... 🙄
@curiosi If Fauci publicly stated that and it’s on record either audio or in print, he probably took a page from Obama and the MIT man Gruber, dubbed the architect of “Obamacare” who said the American people were too stupid to see how they were getting shafted by them as they pushed Obamacare. Two pathetic people, Fauci and Gruber.