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One the one hand the CISA is being gutted, and on the other hand there is an ever increase of rhetoric about cybersecurity, national interests, critical infrast
by totetsu 5mo ago
One the one hand the CISA is being gutted, and on the other hand there is an ever increase of rhetoric about cybersecurity, national interests, critical infrastructure..
- downrightmike 5mo agoThat's why we don't listen to rhetoric.
- SV_BubbleTime 5mo ago[flagged]
- ImPostingOnHN 5mo agoComplaining about gross negligence, after all the competence has been gutted out, strikes me as misdirected frustration.
- totetsu 5mo agoOh, thats interesting ,. this is one of those things where two people can hear opposite things from the exact same information.
- ImPostingOnHN 5mo agoWithout naming names, there's an old, old joke about a certain political party's philosophy: "Government is incompetent and ineffective! Elect us and we'll prove it!"
- array_key_first 5mo agoGutting doesn't magically solve incompetence. It's a anti-solultion that people peddle because it requires literally zero thought or nuance. If an organization has systemic incompetence and you gut them, then they're still incompetent but now they're also pressured and therefore more likely to make mistakes. So, you're just in a worse position.
- cindyllm 5mo ago[dead]
- jcattle 5mo agoOn the contrary you can argue that gutting should lead to lower number of mistakes/incompetence. There can't be any mistakes if no work is being done.
- array_key_first 5mo agoThere's a big mistake in this logic: is work really not getting done? Because a lot of work has to be done regardless of if you have the money or time to do it. Most government work is actually not optional, there are literal laws saying it has to be done. And that's what we, very predictably, saw with DOGE. Like, think about it. You fire say 50% of people. What happens to the other 50%? They twiddle their thumbs? You've worked a job before, right? And you've had coworkers fired or laid off before, right? Okay, what happens to their work? Does it disappear into the abyss or do you then take it on? Because in all my experience, I take it on. Come on now.
- jandrese 5mo agoWhat if they purged all of the competent people and installed party loyalists? That seems to be a recurring theme with this administration. These are guys who unapologetically admire the efficiency of the Nazi party, not realizing that the pervasive incompetence and most levels of the government were one of the driving factors in their ultimate defeat.
- ryan_lane 5mo agoGutting organizations _leads to_ these kinds of problems.