— Mike Masnick (@mmasnick) December 15, 2020TikTok (I don’t use it, don’t care about it) is a national security risk which must at all costs be stopped! (Well, if somebody buys it, that’ll be fine.) But Solar Wind, actually used by the U.S. government and military, not just by tweens with phones?
"Some of America’s most deeply held secrets may have been stolen in a disciplined, monthslong operation being blamed on elite Russian government hackers.
— Jonathan Lemire (@JonLemire) December 16, 2020
“The possibilities of what might have been purloined are mind-boggling." https://t.co/iCJtdRwdQf
Well, it’s not owned by China or anybody who “looks Asian,” is it? How were we supposed to be suspicious?
"China is like the Third Reich" pic.twitter.com/bpxK301GOD
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) December 16, 2020
Clever these Chinese. They know we can trust Germans. Non-Asians, ya know.
When Podesta got his e-mails hacked I said that the DNC and Democratic Party and Democratic campaigns etc. should all be instructed to never, ever put anything to do with any of it anywhere online. When people were freaking out and idiotically making Edward Snowden a hero I pointed out that EVERYTHING they put online went through counties where the governments are entirely free to collect everything and use it, that even the NSA was far more restricted in what they were allowed to do than most other countries, nevermind the ones Snowden went to with all that stolen NSA data.
ReplyDeleteThe Biden administration should take serious and immediate actions to get these things off of the internet or other online networks that Russia or China or North Korea or who knows who can hack. All vital infrastructure in the United States should be taken off and any systems vital to functioning should be taken off of it. It is disgusting that we haven't done a thing to remove those things from the certain source of information stealing and sabotage since Wikileaks and Snowden etc. were found to be working for foreign dictators.
I wonder if anything Snowden gave the Russians made this easier for them. I wouldn't be surprised if it had.
This reminds me of the RCMP scandal a few years back when they found out that one of the most highly placed figure in their cyber security branch had been the source of leaks that a supplier of unhackable phones to gangsters was marketing. The RCMP had trusted him in the old-boys-handshake level of security. When it was revealed that when suspected they hadn't bothered to give him so much as a polygraph, someone said that that was considered a novel innovation by the RCMP. The military mindset is so stupid at times.