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Trump Extends Obama Executive Order On Cyberattacks (infoworld.com)
"U.S. President Donald Trump is extending by one year special powers introduced by former President Barack Obama that allow the government to issue sanctions against people and organizations engaged in significant cyberattacks and cybercrime against the U.S.," according to InfoWorld. An anonymous reader quotes their report:
Executive Order 13694 was introduced on April 1, 2015, and was due to expire on Saturday, but the president sent a letter to Congress on Wednesday evening informing it of his plans to keep it active. Significant malicious cyber-enabled activities originating from, or directed by persons located, in whole or in substantial part, outside the United States, continue to pose an unusual and extraordinary threat to the national security, foreign policy, and economy of the United States," Trump wrote in the letter. "Therefore, I have determined that it is necessary to continue the national emergency declared in Executive Order 13694 with respect to significant malicious cyber-enabled activities."
The executive order gave the U.S. new powers to retaliate for hacking of critical infrastructure, major denial of service attacks or large scale economic hacking. It was expanded in December 2016 to include election-related systems and used to sanction Russian agents and organizations for their alleged role in a series of attacks during the presidential election.
The executive order gave the U.S. new powers to retaliate for hacking of critical infrastructure, major denial of service attacks or large scale economic hacking. It was expanded in December 2016 to include election-related systems and used to sanction Russian agents and organizations for their alleged role in a series of attacks during the presidential election.
This part "directed by persons located, in whole or in substantial part, outside the United States" means that Obama, and later Trump, can spy on anyone if they claim they think they're directed by someone outside of the US.
Trump Extends Obama Executive Order On Cyberattacks [Flagged]
What?
systemd is Roko's Basilisk.
At first I figured it had to be, since as far as I can tell, this is the first of Obama's executive orders that Trump or Congress HAVEN'T rescinded.
"But remember, most lynch mobs aren't this nice." (H.Simpson)
-- Joe
Still don't know whether or not it's an April Fool's Joke and whether or not you're some kind of troll, but pretending there was some sincerity under your comment, and trying to treat it as a question, here's why:
American capitalism has died. Old-fashioned capitalism has now mutated into something that we should call corporate cancerism. The Russians have basically the same thing, though they got there by a different route. Now we are witnessing a battle royale between two strains of economic cancer. #PresidentTweety has no idea what is going on, but his last handler told him this was a good thing to do (or not, in the April Fool's case).
Corporations win, humans lose. Have a nice day?
Freedom = (Meaningful - Coerced) Choice != (Speech | Beer^2), and sad sock puppets' bad mods avail them naught.
I thought the deadline was yesterday for this year's applications. But maybe talking a good game, w/o doing anything will satisfy Trump's voters again.
Z^1
Freedom = (Meaningful - Coerced) Choice != (Speech | Beer^2), and sad sock puppets' bad mods avail them naught.
Thanks for proving my point, troll.
Z^2
Freedom = (Meaningful - Coerced) Choice != (Speech | Beer^2), and sad sock puppets' bad mods avail them naught.
This is amazing. It's like that cripple fight episode on south park. you're a troll - no you're the troll. when you two get finished insulting each other - maybe a fight where one slaps the other then you yell for half an hour?
Thanks for the entertainment jizznuts. You're both trolls. Short, ugly, bad skin, overweight, unshowered, no style, and you hide under the bridge while normal people walk on it.
Most countries are migrating to Linux, even Russia. When is the USA going to use a better Operating System to reduce Cyber Threats?