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President Obama Unveils $19 Billion Plan To Overhaul U.S. Cybersecurity
erier2003 writes: President Obama on Tuesday unveiled an expansive plan to bolster government and private-sector cybersecurity by establishing a federal coordinator for cyber efforts, proposing a commission to study future work, and asking Congress for funds to overhaul dangerously obsolete computer systems. His newly signed executive orders contain initiatives to better prepare college students for cybersecurity careers, streamline federal computer networks, and certify Internet-connected devices as secure. The Cybersecurity National Action Plan also establishes a Federal Privacy Council (to review how the government stores Americans' personal information), creates the post of Chief Information Security Officer, and establishes a Commission on Enhancing National Cybersecurity.
"I only intend to improve the cybersecurity of the government while doing everything I can to undermine the security of regular peon-- er-- people."
And that's just what it will take to clean up Hillary's email.
They rule encryption is a form of a weapon, with restrictions on export. Then they want to ban encryption. Pray-tell, how is the govt going to certify anything as secure without the most robust encryption technologies and practices currently available? Or does it mean, certified backdoored?
Overlooking the fact that George W. front loaded the debt for Obama by not paying for Medicare reform and tax cuts, and keeping two wars off the books.
Looks like your days are numbered, black hats!!
SJW's don't eliminate discrimination. They just expropriate it for themselves.
If you like your privacy, you can keep your privacy.
There is no God, and Dirac is his prophet.
Next you realize that 'unveiling a plan' and 'asking Congress for funding' have nothing to do with executive orders, and maybe, just maybe, resolve to not be such a knee-jerk when you see the name of a political figure that you regularly disagree with.
Most of the "cybersecurity holes" can be tracked down to some contractor slapping in an insecure installation of -whatever- to do the bare minimum needed to keep the contract. This is what needs to be fixed -- contracts need to be monitored closely and terminated in cases of poor performance. Security is a human error thing mostly:
- Not removing default passwords and accounts
- Leaving ports open and services running that aren't necessary
- Not keeping up with product versions and patch cycles
- Leaving unencrypted disks full of data on trains or in cars that get broken into
The problem is that even big companies can't manage to get this right, let alone government agencies. Big companies fall prey to the same mentality of just hiring contractors. Even the NSA did this -- if there was ever an organization that needed to do their own in-house IT, that's definitely #1 on the list. Employees will care about security when employers start demanding it.
The solution, which is nearly impossible to implement, is to make everyone involved step their game up. Hire real, full time employees who are committed to the agencies' or companies' missions at a level slightly above "I can keep my job." Make sure everyone is trained and double-check work.
He's a lame duck, and Trump is just gonna undo anything he signs into law, so what's the point? Might as well just brush up on his golf game. Fore!
Trump? The entire Republican Party has been attempting to undo everything Obama ever did since the day he took office. I wouldn't be surprised if they declared him an unperson before they're done.
I understand that the Replublicans and Democrats have different philosophies, but this wholesale eradication crusade that they've adopted is beyond reason.
Republicans reject it before it even comes out and refuse to read it.
Because "Obama"
Which is why when Sanders is elected president in November, I can look forward to more entertaining gridlock, proposals that aren't "Republican-lite". Because if gridlock from a Democratic president is all we'll get, we might as well get propose some nice socialist ideas and get some nice leftward Overton window movement.
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Republicans reject it before it even comes out and refuse to read it.
Because "Obama"
Oh, be fair now...
Remember that Obamacare website? How high quality was that?
How about Obamacare itself? Did cementing health insurance companies into federal law fix any problems?
How about closing Gitmo? How did that work out?
Hell, how about his stance on telecom immunity? How's that working out for us?
Or making up new immigration law by executive order?
Or ordering the assassination of a US citizen? (With no trial, and by authority of a secret law.)
Really. If you want to blame gridlock on the merits of the situation, then do so.
Otherwise, to the casual observer it would appear that "because Obama" is a perfectly valid reason to oppose something.
Because, you know, "good and evil".