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DNC Creates 'Cybersecurity Board' Without Any Cybersecurity Experts (techdirt.com)
An anonymous reader writes from a report via Techdirt: The Democratic National Committee has created a "cybersecurity advisory board" to improve its cybersecurity and to "prevent future attacks." Politico reports: "'To prevent future attacks and ensure that the DNC's cybersecurity capabilities are best-in-class, I am creating a Cybersecurity Advisory Board composed of distinguished experts in the field,' interim DNC Chairwoman Donna Brazile wrote in a memo. 'The Advisory Board will work closely with me and the entire DNC to ensure that the party is prepared for the grave threats it faces -- today and in the future.' Members include Rand Beers, former Department of Homeland Security acting secretary; Nicole Wong, former deputy chief technology officer of the U.S. and a former technology lawyer for Google and Twitter; Aneesh Chopra, co-founder of Hunch Analytics and former chief technology officer of the U.S.; and Michael Sussmann, a partner in privacy and data security at the law firm Perkins Coie and a former Justice Department cybercrime prosecutor." What's surprising is that none of these members are cybersecurity experts. Techdirt reports: "If the goal of the board was to advise on cybersecurity policy, then the makeup of it is at least slightly more understandable, but that's not goal. It's to actually improve the cybersecurity of the DNC. Even if the goal were just policy, having someone with actual technology experience with cybersecurity would be sensible."
The point of every board isn't to ever do work. It's just to head up the meetings and organize the allocation of funds to achieve the agenda.
You might want one technician but management is management. Management is just about allocating your resources to do get shit done.
Obviously nobody on the board is actually going to get their hands dirty. And boards don't do very much. They will probably meet once a quarter... by phone for an hour. Agree that the consulting firm that they hired is spending the money wisely and then go back to their real jobs.
Actually doing things eventually leads to racisim. The only thing left is to remain motionless and receive your white privilege lectures.
Just the political elites doing what they do irrespective of the skill set of people they are employing. People keep banging on about corruption in some third world nation when corruption is well and truly alive in your back yard.
Actually, this is not a political elite mindset thing, it is a government mindset thing.
About 10 years ago or so I attended a government information assurance (they didn't call it cybersecurity back then) conference. The keynote speaker was a technical high up (maybe CIO, maybe CTO) of one of the three letter agencies. He said to an auditorium full of government information assurance managers something to the effect of, "the federal government is the only large organization that will regularly take people with no technical education, no technical training, and no technical knowledge/experience and put them into the inherently technical role of being responsible for securing information systems." You could hear a pin drop.
The point is that this sort of thing has been going on forever in the government (a campaign functions in nearly the same way as the government in many respects) for a long time. It makes sense why the government gets hit with so many data breaches. In fact, it was always surprising to me that it didn't happen more often.
Airport tarmacs aren't very public. He did, in fact, get away with it. No witnesses, can't prove anything.
There was no paper trail, do you believe that was a coincidence?
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He did, in fact, get away with it. No witnesses, can't prove anything.
There wasn't supposed to be any witnesses, but there was, which is why we know about it. NORMAL people don't try to hide their activities. However, this is Clinton, and we all know that he isn't the most trustworthy of people. That being said, there are those who are running to his defense, saying ""Can't Prove Anything" as if we were to just stop looking at something suspicious.
Had this been Trump's kids / family, it would have been all over the MSM Headlines until the election, and those same people who are defending Clinton now, would be frothing at the mouth. Such is politics, and why most NORMAL people are sick to their stomach with American Political Cronyism.
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