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The very fact that it's even possible to have this kind of thing happening unfettered, unconstrained, and unaccountable is evidence in and of itself that the US
by im_down_w_otp 2y ago
The very fact that it's even possible to have this kind of thing happening unfettered, unconstrained, and unaccountable is evidence in and of itself that the US Govt. doesn't take its national security & secrets seriously though, isn't it?
- epistasis 2y agoIn what sense?
- im_down_w_otp 2y agoIn that taking those things seriously would have included: * More creative threat-modeling. * More effective prevention measures. * More vigorous mitigation & stonewalling attempts. * More rapid remediation & rejection of the intrusion. Especially for a threat vector that was telegraphed so openly so far in advance. The circumstances might be unprecedented, but they're not at all surprising.
- epistasis 2y agoWhat sort of threat modeling would have prevented this? There are plenty of mitigation and stonewalling going on, but mostly through the courts. Executives must have some power, or else the process itself becomes the executive and there's no ability to respond to anything. If there's anybody to blame, we must place the blame on the executive wielding the power, and those who have enabled this to happen by putting that particular executive in power by subverting the traditional vetting process. If a political party no longer performs basic vetting of that level then the entire party should probably be eliminated.