Big US election coming up, security is vital and, oh look... a federal agency just got completely pwned for real An unspecified US government agency was hacked by a miscreant who appears to have made off with archives of information. This is according to Uncle Sam's Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), which on Thursday went into technical detail on how an intruder: broke into staffers' Office 365 accounts; gained …
The election bit makes for an eye-catching headline, but elections of all sorts, including the presidential, are managed by the states and, to some degree, counties. (Remember the "butterfly ballot" in Palm Beach County, Florida, during 2000?) That is not to say that the states are any better at information security, just that there is no immediate link between a hacked federal agency and state agencies of any sort.
Charge the owner of the node with aiding and abetting. Simple.
You do understand that the owner of that node may be a citizen of the country where the node is sited, right? And that country may consider itself a sovereign nation and its citizens not subject to US law?
You do understand countries have agreements whereby they can charge someone with a crime in their country? If you run a Tor exit node you will be assisting criminal activity (as well as helping people who need the anonymity). Simple point. You cannot hide behind just directing the traffic. There are consequences for actions. Just because it is on the internet doesn’t protect you.
But, but...The internet is perfectly safe and secure. Just as a screen window won't let air pass thru.
When will these goofs realise that a net is just a bunch of holes connected by string and a cloud is a bunch of holes connected with vapor.
before the bean counters took over almost all multi-location data was transmitted over dedicated lines. In the case of many electric companies, over their own power lines. Maybe they should go back to that.
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this event is very definitely going to be used by the orange shitgibbon and his enablers as evidence of why non-in-person voting is unsafe and therefore should not be allowed (they aren't ready, just yet, to make viting for anyone but the shitgibbon or his anointed representatives and successors a crime, but that will come). If I was paranoid I might suspect that the people pulling the shitgibbon's strings might have arranged for this to happen, just now, for that very purpose.
Based on the article, I assume it was a state player.
Election security for the US doesn't exist because there are no elections run by the federal government. But there is an agency that is supposed to facilitate and coordinate it for state and local governments so I assume it was the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) that was hacked.
As for who, I'd put my money on Russia.
BTW, the Pennsylvania "scandal" seems to be military ballots that were received in absentee ballot request envelopes and opened. Nothing to see there.
@" I'd put my money on Russia."
If its Russia, you'll see CISA head swapped out for daring to defend the US against Russian attack!
They should just pay Trump off. If you read Michael Cohen's book, the Oligarch money they funneled him was barely $50 million.
He has that $479 million in debt that will need refinancing as its coming due. He tried to borrow another $10 million back in 2016 but was refused. Lots of money skimmed off in hotel fees to US.gov and to his inauguration committee, but he still had to borrow $11 million on a 30 year mortgage to buy his sisters house, so he's broke.
He's broke, borrowing money means he doesn't have that money available from profits.
So just buy him off. That's how he exited his Atlantic city casino, he was attacking the casino he was supposed to run, till they paid him to exit.
You want Putin to stop killing US troops while Trump frees the Taliban he hired to do it? Pay him more than Putin. Atlantic City gambit, he's worth as much damage he can do to the US.
Yep, this weekend's news, some of his tax returns have leaked. As expected large losses some years, little or no profits others. Trying to keep Trump Corp from collapsing is why he's so needy to foreign dictators. Why they can seemingly attack with impunity, with Trump running interference for them.
https://bgr.com/2020/09/27/donald-trump-tax-returns-new-york-times-reports-details/
“In 2018, for example, Mr. Trump announced in his disclosure that he had made at least $434.9 million. The tax records deliver a very different portrait of his bottom line: $47.4 million in losses.” https://t.co/ZRYQrrWLSq
Roll up roll up, you want this nuke treaty cancelled? But you have to do me a favor though. You want all our bases in Syria? Oooo and I always wanted rid of these condo units in Florida. I guess as more details come out we'll find out about more of the side deals.
That 2018, borrowing $11.2 million on a 30 year mortgage, co-signed by his kids because he's too old to borrow money over 30 years, that's a major tell as to the poor state of his finances.
The emoluments clause should have been enforced from day 1.
A candidate that owes money to Russians and who all the polls said would lose, gets elected.
The Russians have quite a history of trying to rig elections in other countries.
That could never happen here, not with the level of security provided by the bake sale budgets most local election committees run on.
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