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And when the CCP compromised the law enforcement portal for every American ISP, stealing info on 80% of Americans, including both the Kamala and Trump campaigns
by 0xy 9mo ago
And when the CCP compromised the law enforcement portal for every American ISP, stealing info on 80% of Americans, including both the Kamala and Trump campaigns, under the previous admin it was rock solid op-sec, presumably.
Or when the previous admin leaked classified Iran attack plans from the Pentagon, so bad that they didn't even know whether they were hacked or not.
You can at least pretend to make a technical argument over a political one.
- zzrrt 9mo ago> CCP compromised the law enforcement portal for every American ISP Isn’t that the fault of the ISPs, not the admin?
- 0xy 9mo agoNope. The breach was in law enforcement operated portals.
- zzrrt 9mo agoSource? I cannot find anything suggesting that law enforcement agencies operate the portals. They are mandated by law and used by law enforcement, but operated by the telecom providers. From [0]: “Last year almost a dozen major U.S. ISPs were the victim”, “the intruders spent much of the last year rooting around the ISP networks”, “telecom administrators failing to change default passwords”, “Biden FCC officials did try to implement some very basic cybersecurity safeguards, requiring that telecoms try to do a better job securing their networks”. Per the original topic, the article goes on to explain how the Trump admin destroyed those little security steps. I’m okay with some both-sidesing of bad opsec, but I think you’re incorrect on the blame in this story, and to the extent it is the government’s responsibility, the Trump II response was worse than the Biden’s. [0] https://www.techdirt.com/2025/11/07/trump-cybersecurity-policy-is-indistinguishable-from-a-foreign-attack/ https://www.techdirt.com/2025/11/07/trump-cybersecurity-poli...
- direwolf20 9mo agoIt was a previous admin who mandated a backdoor. Predictably, enemies of the state got access to the backdoor.
- Daishiman 9mo agoYou're the one making a political argument by doing a whataboutism that attempts to negate the failings of this administration. Which you're not even doing correctly because by every measure the previous administration was drastically more competent by looking at the qualifications of the people who filled their posts.
- 0xy 9mo agoCan you explain how leaking the phone metadata of 80% of Americans and compromising the integrity of the 2024 election campaign's private comms is better OpSec than a single leak? It's the worst U.S. government leak of all time, by far.
- Daishiman 9mo agoThe 2024 election had no substantial integrity compromises. Nobody with credibility has critiqued its results.
- 0xy 9mo agoIs your position that the 2024 election, despite having a foreign power intercept the phone communications of both campaigns (confirmed and on record), had no integrity compromises? What do you consider a compromise of integrity if not a hacking of political campaigns? Also, please clarify whether the 2016 DNC hack is an exemption to your prior answer so I can weigh your bias.
- Daishiman 9mo agoWhy don't you enlighten us since you seem to know so much about the topic? I know that none of the people who are experts at detecting the statistical artifacts that appears during voting roll have questioned the integrity of the US election. In fact the only people questioning it are conspirancy-minded people who don't know that there are robust methodologies to detect election fraud.
- zzrrt 9mo ago