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RNC Is Preparing For Cyberattacks (cnbc.com)
An anonymous reader writes from a report via CNBC: The Republican National Convention will be a popular target for cyberattacks. An official in charge of securing the network has said the RNC already had to fend off a wave of cyberattacks before the convention opened. Many more attacks are expected throughout the convention ranging from "nation-states hunting for intelligence or protesters trying to disrupt the network at the convention," said the consulting chief information officer for the RNC, Max Everett. Donald Trump's campaign appears to only fuel attackers, security experts said. The convention opens Monday afternoon and will attract roughly 50,000 people in addition to a global audience watching from afar. "A successful attack could impact physical security on the ground, for example, by taking connected security scanners offline. It could also affect online activity, for example, by hijacking the livestream and derailing the GOP's message," reports CNBC. The Secret Service has designated the conventions "national special security events." Everett and his team of 70 IT specialists will be using Microsoft and ForeScout software to monitor the network in real time, working with ATT and Cisco on securing external access to the network and a firm called Dark Cubed to share real-time threat information among the firms trying to defend against cyberattacks.
Given that the left is filled with violence loving wing nuts, I agree with you.
Liberalism is really statism. Or national socialism, if you like..
Who is making it "volatile high stress" ?? Regular Americans tired of people like BLM rioting, cities like Chicago getting shot up daily without a peep from the "Black Leaders", cops getting shot in ambushes or ... liberal idiots shouting "Hands up, don't shoot" (didn't happen), "pigs in a blanket, fry em like bacon" (BLM) or some racist asshole targeting "Cracker" cops ?
ALL you have against Trump and his supporters is stupid words. IMHO actions speak much louder and you probably should be paying closer attention to how things are ACTUALLY proceeding, rather than listening to the idiot talking heads who know nothing.
Agent K: A *person* is smart. People are dumb, stupid, panicky animals, and you know it.
Don't confuse them with actual facts. You know, because that would destroy their snowflake bubble.
Agent K: A *person* is smart. People are dumb, stupid, panicky animals, and you know it.
Leftists always disrupt their opponents. They Riot. They deface signs and web sites. They block roads. These are nasty uncivilised substitutes for democratic processes and dialog and compromise that SMALL POCKETS of uncivilized people across the entire human spectrum occasionally do, but that very large groups of leftists routinely do.
EVERY Republican convention of the past 60+ years has been attacked by leftists trying to disrupt it. This is nothing new and Republicans are quite used to uncivilized opponents.
When is the last time mobs of Conservative Republicans rioted at a Democrat convention??????
EVERY Conservative Republican candidate gets attacked by leftist protesters trying to shut them down and muzzle their speech
When is the last time any Conservative Republican protesters tried to shove a pie into the face of a Democrat candidate or tried to shout-down a Democrat candidate or tried to block Democrats from access to a Democrat candidate's speech?????
Sorry, but the nasty political antics come from the left, always have, and always will. Conservatives are quite used to facing uncivilized smelly unwashed hoardes of left-wing mobsters using brown-shirt tactics to advance a revolution; they're so used to it that they almost see the absence of such activities as a sign they have failed to stand firmly enough on principles. As the party with the elephant mascot, they remember two facts: [1] the original brown shirts were the National Socialist Workers Party (I'm not making this up, google "nsdap") and [2] the Democrats have a jackass as their mascot (I'm not making this up either, google it).
Cripes, it's an open carry state, with an open carry believers, for a candidate that encouraged his followers to beat up protestors.
If some one doesn't take a shot at them, then they will take a shot at the protestors.
I would offer odds, 2:1 that someone attending the convention or a protesting against the convention will end up trying to shoot someone
I would be more worried about those unlawfully carrying than those who are legally open carrying or those who are legally carrying concealed (with a permit). My guess is that most folks who are open carrying are doing so to promote / exercise their rights and are being responsible about it. The last thing folks emphasizing their rights want to do is perform an action (shoot someone in this case) that has the effect of generating negative public opinion.
The reason you should be worried about the people legally open carrying is because of what is likely to happen if a single shot is fired by someone illegally carrying and intending mayhem; the well-meaning, legally open carrying folks will likely start shooting all around themselves and, totally not meaning to, kill and wound everyone else.
What they should do is have EVERYONE compulsory wearing full body kevlar armor!
In the free world the media isn't government run; the government is media run.
Cripes, it's an open carry state, with an open carry believers, for a candidate that encouraged his followers to beat up protestors.
If some one doesn't take a shot at them, then they will take a shot at the protestors.
I would offer odds, 2:1 that someone attending the convention or a protesting against the convention will end up trying to shoot someone
I would be more worried about those unlawfully carrying than those who are legally open carrying or those who are legally carrying concealed (with a permit). My guess is that most folks who are open carrying are doing so to promote / exercise their rights and are being responsible about it. The last thing folks emphasizing their rights want to do is perform an action (shoot someone in this case) that has the effect of generating negative public opinion.
A big subtext of open carry is they think they look really cool, authoritative, and intimidating with their big guns. On their own you can just kind of ignore them and let them do their thing, but they're walking into a scenario where there's a lot of people on both sides who are brimming for a fight and trying to show they won't back down.
All you need is a few open carry folks who really want to show they're in charge, some protesters who want to call their bluff, and things escalating into violence. It might not happen, but there's an unusual number of bad factors at work.
When you look at the list of banned items at the RNC it becomes clear that Americans are not convinced that their guns can protect them from people armed with knives, nunchuks or tennis balls.
This makes it even more obvious that the purpose of carrying guns is to show virility and penis size.
Seriously; they are permitting guns and banning tennis balls. They are so terrified that their guns won't be of any use in defending themselves that they have to ban tennis balls. CLEARLY the real purpose of carrying guns is not self defense.
In the free world the media isn't government run; the government is media run.