How many of these cases involved Dotard?
Enquirer minds will never let you know.
Whhaaaatttt??? I thought it was only Crooked Hillary that had lax security…everyone ELSE woulda coulda shoulda…at least those sanctimonious 'wads that reside in Congress (and on the campaign trail) want us to believe this…
Of course, if the information accidentally goes missing, that makes it much easier to settle a case on favorable terms. They’re just lucky people weren’t inserting kompromat onto the system.
Yeah, I’m sure what he’s really worried about is complainants’ privacy and not that of his colleagues.
(Just because he is on my side of the political divide doesn’t mean I trust him on this issue.)
It occurs to me, if incredibly belatedly, that we’ve all heard for years that we’re neglecting the privacy and security of our digital devices and the trustworthiness of our information in a way that’s not cool in a networked world. And man, didn’t it blow up in our faces? None of this Trump craziness would have been possible without it.
Now Russia via Wikileaks, or FOX, or any Right wing Evil , can let loose false sexual harassment stories in the week before the next election against Dems saying that the info came from this insecure storage incident … or is Wyden somehow trying to get out in front of that scenario by making the situation known?
I actually do - cyber security and the privacy interests of citizens have been Wyden’s “beat” for a long time. He busted Clapper on warentless wiretapping and other NSA activities. I believe he has sent pointed letters to other agencies
A few quick observations:
The USA is a long way from security in the digital/networked space. The current level of sloppiness in many sectors including government is partly due to ignorance but also to where attention (and money) is being paid, to those the powerful are interested in protecting. That gap will widen further unless contested because the powerful don’t like whistleblowers and are indifferent to the less powerful. Indifference or hostility to net neutrality is also part of that.
Complete security is a contest you can’t entirely win but failure to stay even can have severe consequences. This is not confined to personal threats, it is intruding on the nature of empirical evidence and the ability to agree on social facts.
The need to hold on to some basis of trustworthiness, some basis to judge truth or at least its likelihood, will only grow greater as the domain of digital skullduggery and gaslighting grows larger and larger; e.g., The Era of Fake Video Begins: The digital manipulation of video may make the current era of “fake news” seem quaint.
Good to see someone is taking this threat seriously and not buyring how susceptible this country is to foreign criminal cyber threats. That is going to need to be a major platform for the Democrats in 2020, and they’re going to need to not screw it up which means every elected and non-elected Democrat operating in and around gov’t is going to need to take it just as seriously, with every i dotted and every t crossed.
Well, loading boxes of files into the truck in the middle of night might get caught by a whistleblower and his trusty cell phone camera with tweets looking for payday.
They decided on a more secure way to make things disappear. Trump style.