RSA Conf wrap: AI and China on everything, everywhere, all at once

Another RSA Conference has come and gone, with almost 44,000 attendees this year spread across San Francisco's Moscone Center and the surrounding facilities, according to event organizers. Hopefully, all of us made it home safely, didn't get deported to a Venezuelan prison, and didn't end up bringing home a virus - computer or …

[Anonymous Coward]

Driving out good talent is intentional

"When it comes to the federal government slashing employees, "I worry how good of talent you're going to get in, when they see how you treat people on the way out.""

That is literally the stated goal of Project 2025:

Make every government employee dread going to work

They not only don't want talented government employees, they don't want any government employees, period. If there are any employees left at all, they should be acolytes.

[martinusher]

We're contracting to El Salvador, not Venezuela

>Hopefully, all of us made it home safely, didn't get deported to a Venezuelan prison, and didn't end up bringing home a virus - computer or corona.

We don't deport undesirables to Venezuela because they're the Bad Guys. CECOT in El Salvador is the preferred destination.

(The very latest is that our Dear Leader has had the idea of refurbishing and reopening Alcatraz. Its only a short ferry ride from San Francisco.)

>but the phony North Korean IT worker was certainly the buzziest threat topic.

I was under the impression that the workers themselves were anything but phoney. The biggest threat from remote working is likely to be that the worker you're hiring isn't real.

[fxkeh]

Luckily, there is one question that ... always roots out North Korean spies

Yeah... except earlier in the same article "Two of them ... were Indian citizens who were being paid by North Korea to take these jobs " - Indians are likely not going to care about bad mouthing The Dear Leader, so it's not exactly a magic phrase. Maybe the companies should actually put their hands in their pockets and pay for new hires to come to an on-site onboarding as a way to root out North Korean spies?

[VoiceOfTruth]

Perhaps it's time to call it properly

The USA is the biggest threat to the world, so why am I supposed to care if China is spying on the USA?

From the European aspect, it's long overdue that we kick American companies out. They spy on us all day long. Every Google phone, every iPhone is a spy device.

With the announced tariffs on non-USA made films, it's time to tariff USA films. I would go for 500%. The USA can have Hollywood. The rest of the world can have the rest of the world.

Make America Last.

[Anonymous Coward]

Re: Perhaps it's time to call it properly

Imposing general tariffs ends up raising your own cost of living - better to respond by, say, modifying copyright laws.