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President Trump Misses 90-Day Deadline To Appoint a Cybersecurity Team After Alleged Russian Hacking (politico.com)
From a report: President-elect Donald Trump was very clear: "I will appoint a team to give me a plan within 90 days of taking office," he said in January, after getting a U.S. intelligence assessment of Russian interference in last year's elections and promising to address cybersecurity. Thursday, Trump hits his 90-day mark. There is no team, there is no plan, and there is no clear answer from the White House on who would even be working on what. It's the latest deadline Trump's set and missed -- from the press conference he said his wife would hold last fall to answer questions about her original immigration process to the plan to defeat ISIS that he'd said would come within his first 30 days in office. Since his inauguration, Trump's issued a few tweets and promises to get to the bottom of Russian hacking -- and accusations of surveillance of Americans, himself included, by the Obama administration.
I guess "the Cyber" is actually hard, huh? Kind of like Health Care, or North Korea?
Who knew?
Trump got into power by nothing but bluster. He isn't going to be able to deliver on more than 5% of what he promised on the campaign trail. With a Republican majority in the Senate and the House of Representatives he STILL couldn't repeal Obamacare. With the deck stacked entirely in his favor he still can't deliver.
America, you've been had.
Weaselmancer
rediculous.
You really expected these people to keep their promises? Does everybody vote for them just so they can have something to complain about? Don't expect to be taken seriously when you consistently reelect over 95% of them. You reward them for lying, so I hope you don't expect them to stop doing so.
“He’s not deformed, he’s just drunk!”
I say you're probably a troll.
For every dollar spent investigating a corrupt oligarch-led culture that has successfully compromised the integrity of the world's most powerful nation we buy a small semblance of continuity with the ideals to which we should adhere whether a con-man usurper has taken the highest seat in the land or someone who merely sent emails.
When T proclaimed, "Nobody knew healthcare could be so complicated", I could hear the sound of 100-million face-palms. Foreheads all over had finger marks the next day.
Table-ized A.I.
You're using words that no one outside of extremist websites use in real life. That leads us to a couple possible conclusions, neither of which speak very highly of your character.
That (a series or network of tubes) was actually a pretty good analogy to describe internet and its data flow to lay people.
Bandwidth, latency etc can be well understood with this analogy.
I think the people who laughed at this description of the Internet are severely imagination-deficient. And no, I have no idea what political side the guy who described the net thus is on, so I have no axe to grind either way.
Explaining by good analogy is actually an intellectual skill and a gift. Kind of like a box of chocolates...
Where are we going and why are we in a handbasket?
Cutting red tape to ribbons is an intrinsically easier job than building up effective layers of regulation that prevent the public interest being bent over a barrel, while the longest of all possible rubber gloves rummages around for the better part of a trillion dollars.
Evidently, no money was harmed in the operation.
The job, as I see it, is a little harder to accomplish, once you concede that there is such a thing as effective regulation, though it's yet far from a science; science also being a discipline where time after time ones best efforts fall short, and yet one perseveres.
In the best case scenario, even after regulation becomes more of science, it will still be double hard: hard to do and hard on the ego.
Kind of makes a guy want to double down on only caring about money, setting oneself up on a lavish private beach, and watching the glorious Egos soar.
Maybe he hasn't appointed a task force to look into Russian hacking because he can't find anyone who can lie convincingly about the subject to actually fool anyone?
Meanwhile there's an ongoing independent investigation into possible Russian tampering with the November election. Oh, and by the way: Russian has also been tampering with elections in other countries, too, and Russia appears to be where much of the cyber-hacking in the world originates from. Not like this idea came out of nowhere.
Worst case scenario: Trump and/or his staff are discovered to have been complicit in tampering with the election, and the election is declared null-and-void, Trump is removed from office. Where, then, do we go from there? Is Pence then installed as President, or is he tossed out on his ear, along with the rest of the Trump Cabinet? If this were a TV show, that'd be damned interesting to watch, but here in the Real World, I can't see it as anything other than a complete disaster for the United States. The last thing we need in this country right now, considering the socio-political climate of the entire planet, is a power-vacuum. However if that's what the conclusion of the investigation revealed, what else could we do?
It's just bad all around. None of this should have happened. Trump never had any business being elected President. Hillary Clinton should never have been the Democratic candidate. Vladimir Putin should never have been allowed to rise to power in Russia. North Korea. China. Islamic State. It's just bad all over, none of it is funny, not before, not now, and in the end everybody loses in one way or another. Many Conservatives who voted for Trump are now regretting it, seeing what it is they've bought into. There is now a greater chance of getting into an armed conflict with North Korea, and Kim Jong Un is batshit-insane and would use a nuke if you poked him enough. The world is painting itself into a corner and I don't know how or if we'll manage to fix all this.
Show of hands, who was sitting on their hands, waiting for the incoming administration to ramp up a cyber security team to help democrats secure their private, non-government email servers? In providing guidance to geniuses like Jpn Podesta to NOT use 'password' as the password on your work GMAIL account?
Seriously, Democrats ignored warnings from FBI that they were being targeted by hackers, the Republicans heeded the warning, with predictable results in both cases.
Ken
Well the team and the evidence exist in the same state.
i.e. they don't