Another proud legacy of Sore Loser Mango Mussolini:
President Trump took the nation in the wrong direction on cybersecurity, according to a solid majority of experts polled by The Cybersecurity 202.
During four years in office, Trump failed to hold adversaries including Russia accountable for hacking U.S. targets, removed experienced cyber-defenders from their posts for petty reasons and undermined much of the good work being done on cybersecurity within federal agencies, according to 71 percent of respondents to The Network, a panel of more than 100 cybersecurity experts who participate in our ongoing informal survey.
The survey concluded before news broke about probably the most significant breach of the Trump administration — a hack linked to the Russian Foreign Intelligence Service, or SVR, that infected at least five federal agencies — the Commerce, Treasury, Homeland Security and State departments as well as the National Institutes of Health — and probably several others, as well as foreign governments and companies across the globe.
Yet, the respondents’ comments reflect widespread concern Trump is disinterested in the damage that hack has done to national security, unwilling to take Russia to task and preoccupied instead with his own efforts to sow baseless doubts about his election loss.
It's a fair bet that some, perhaps much, of the damage this compromised moron has done to our national security has yet to play out or to be discovered. The Russian intelligence service hack noted above was a finger in the eye of U.S. cybersecurity agencies and a demonstration of how little they fear reprisal from the Sore Loser's regime -- a smash- and- grab operation to maximize data theft and steal government operational secrets while Sore Loser tweets and U.S. agencies fumble to determine the extent of the breach.
It's worth noting that the Sore Loser's regime eliminated the White (Supremacist) House position of cybersecurity coordinator in 2018, as well as that of a State Department coordinator who would marshal an allied response to cyber breaches. (An assist on both those destructive actions goes to "guard rails" and Sore Loser enablers John Bolton and Rex Tillerson.) But, the bottom line is that there was always a fatal flaw emanating from the top that permeated the Sore Loser's regime:
“To improve digital security takes radical truth-telling,” said Steve Weber, director of the Center for Long Term Cybersecurity at the University of California at Berkeley. “The cultural norm of the Trump administration was the opposite.”
Putin sure got his money's worth.
