I think we've seen from this administrations complete undermining of basic security protections (including scoffing at clearances, removing cybersecurity from the national security council and refusing to investigate hacking claims in the 2016 election) that they are not trustworthy when it comes to cybersecurity. Fact is we've seen evidence that Foreign Cyberware units are infiltrating critical infrastructure. Without trust in our own government, this amounts to grandstanding and deniability when that next attack comes... and who knows they may have advanced notice that just such an attack is coming. Most of the comments on here are about this initiative being completely ineffectual... I think those comments are correct... and I'm simply adding that we need to consider that this is the intention, to look like you are doing something (we're tough on cybersecurity), but not actually doing anything.
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I think we've seen from this administrations complete undermining of basic security protections (including scoffing at clearances, removing cybersecurity from the national security council and refusing to investigate hacking claims in the 2016 election) that they are not trustworthy when it comes to cybersecurity. Fact is we've seen evidence that Foreign Cyberware units are infiltrating critical infrastructure. Without trust in our own government, this amounts to grandstanding and deniability when that next attack comes... and who knows they may have advanced notice that just such an attack is coming. Most of the comments on here are about this initiative being completely ineffectual... I think those comments are correct... and I'm simply adding that we need to consider that this is the intention, to look like you are doing something (we're tough on cybersecurity), but not actually doing anything.