I understand this entry will not stay in the front page long, but this makes me think.
If it would have been any company or org firing IT people who just exercised good security practices, it would have been discussed here.
It feels like the Trump gov has won this: they can get away with things that would not have been accepted in other places, because they either 1) managed to normalize the incorrect idea that any criticism towards them is political and ideological, or 2) managed to create a climate where any criticism will just generate the usual nonconstructive tar pit, so constructive people will not even try.
I'm curious what the courts can do about this. My thought is that a president should not have this power to intervene with foundational government processes without congressional approval. Otherwise the next president will re-write the software to cater to their political agenda, and so forth.
The memo "also warned that individuals with the elevated access to the system could become prime targets for cybersecurity attacks by terrorists, nations or other malicious actors,"
Makes you think the Dems should have been harder on Trump. Although he has been convicted he has served no time at all. And he could still run for President after Jan 6.
Those too many people are naive if they think Trump operates within 'the norms'. The first term showed us he doesn't, I don't understand why everyone would have thought differently. Did everyone's memory get fried during the pandemic?
This was always the obvious outcome, those who didn’t believe it were delusional. I won’t speak for anyone but me, but this is exactly where I thought we’d get based on the chain of outcomes.
The US seems to always be first with innovations, while the rest of the world follows & learns from what works and doesn’t. The playbook being run by DOGE et al is impressively complex since it is up against a complex system of checks and balances, but so far said playbook is working..
I suspect the US situation helped France treat Le Pen as an actual criminal rather than going with a light touch “just in case a criminal is what voters want”.
The lessons will be learned but it’ll take 10-20 years for forward-thinking leaders to emerge and help bake them into the political systems of the future. Your unborn children will thank you for living through this.
If it would have been any company or org firing IT people who just exercised good security practices, it would have been discussed here.
It feels like the Trump gov has won this: they can get away with things that would not have been accepted in other places, because they either 1) managed to normalize the incorrect idea that any criticism towards them is political and ideological, or 2) managed to create a climate where any criticism will just generate the usual nonconstructive tar pit, so constructive people will not even try.