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Who Hacked The Washington D.C. Police Surveillance Cameras?
An anonymous reader quotes GIzmodo:
City officials and the Secret Service have confirmed that just days before the presidential inauguration, police surveillance cameras in Washington, DC were targeted by hackers. Reportedly, 70% of the CCTV storage devices were infected with ransomware. According to the Washington Post, "City officials said ransomware left police cameras unable to record between January 12 and January 15. The cyberattack affected 123 of 187 network video recorders in a closed-circuit TV system for public spaces across the city, the officials said late Friday."
A spokesperson for the Secret Service says despite the compromised cameras, the safety of the public or protectees was never jeopardized, and the city's CTO says they resolved the problem without paying the ransom by simply removing all software from the devices and rebooting them.
$5 says it was an employee doing something stupid on a computer inside the network.
the CC in CCTV means closed circuit. Clearly that's not the case here.
So you're rather have a lunatic President with daddy issues and a fragile ego instead of a few stupid protesters who get out of control?
My wife, who has a green card, is legitimately worried she might have issues getting back into the country when she has to travel internationally in a couple weeks. Trump is pissing all over the Constitution, and quite frankly, acting more like a despot instead of the leader elected somewhat democratically. He wants to punish people who question his judgement.. that's fucking scary.
"Action without philosophy is a lethal weapon; philosophy without action is worthless."
> My wife, who has a green card, is legitimately worried she might have issues getting back into the country when she has to travel internationally in a couple weeks.
You know one of the things that _really_ bothers me about this?
Not _one_ of the ten or twenty news articles I've read on the topic either link back to or include the text of the Executive Order.
The referenced Order is not present on whitehouse.gov (though an EO signed on the 28th is present). The referenced EO is not present in the Federal Register's list of EOs (though, it looks like they batch-publish Orders and might take up to a week to publish the one "everyone" is talking about the 27th and the one on whitehouse.gov from the 28th). EOs typically have a "Purpose" section (see
https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2017/01/30/2017-02095/border-security-and-immigration-enforcement-improvements
) which both administrators and courts use as guidance to interpret any ambiguous language in an EO. Because we cannot read the EO's scope-limiting Purpose section (let alone any of the other text of the Order), we have no idea if the unnamed "Homeland Security Spokesperson" that journalists are quoting has taken some of the language of this EO out of context, or if the "Spokesperson" is drawing a properly-grounded conclusion.
It's entirely possible that this is a poorly (whether deliberately or accidentally) worded EO that will cause _actual_ trouble for Green Card holders. However, (given that it is national policy to consider Green Card holders to be one step away from full-fledged US citizens (we _do_ call them Permanent Residents, after all)) it seems likely that _any_ delays will be minimal.
Rather than being an attempt to fuck over Green Card holders, it seems _more_ likely to me that (given the _conspicuous_ absence of source material) this is hand-wringing and hyperventilation over something that's being blown out of proportion.
I guess we'll see what's up once the Federal Register gets a chance to publish the EO.
Watch this space:
https://www.federalregister.gov/executive-orders/donald-trump/2017