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Sen. Ron Wyden Says CISA Data Collection Could Put Americans At Risk
blottsie writes: In a new interview, Sen. Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) says the Cyber Information Sharing Act of 2015 (CISA) may put more Americans at risk because the U.S. government has failed to learn the right security lessons from the attack on the Office of Personnel Management. He says, in part: "I've been watching as this goes forward—there's this phrase going around the cybersecurity community, 'If you can't protect it, don't collect it.' Now, there is never going to be a system that's 100 percent safe. But what I'm going to start [saying] on the floor as we get to this [CISA debate], is, you give the government a huge new trove of personal information about Americans before you've addressed the problems that were documented all the way back to 2007—those security holes—before you address those, [before] you plug them, that's like responding to a bear attack by stockpiling honey. That's going to be how I open the debate."
think Hillary! is on "their team", whatever team that may be.
Their team means someone in Hillary's administration, directly or indirectly, is going to help them advance their career and make more money if they support her.
Good old fashioned graft.
It doesn't matter if a terrorist gets your data. Terrorists can't vote. It's the citizens you got to watch out for, you need enough data on them to make sure you'll know how they'll vote before the candidates are even announced. This way you also know how to redistrict and which empty promises to make.
Don't waste your vote! Vote for whoever you want, unless you live in a swing state it won't matter anyways
I don't see H's server choice as a security argument. The "regular" office server, the one she should have been using, was not designed for classified info either and there's no evidence it had better general security than her "home" server.
There are plenty of other reasons to criticize her actions, but "security" is not one of them.
I suppose one could argue she was more likely to mix up personal and work email, but that can happen regardless. One can mistype the destination on any device or email service. Such an argument is splitting hairs on what kind of typo is most likely, which is probably personality specific such as to make it highly speculative. The kinds of mistakes I make often have a different pattern than those of others. It's one of the reasons I welcome wide feedback on any of my draft UI designs.
Table-ized A.I.