Security shouldn’t be political

Topic

Tonight I heard on the news that President Trump fired Chris Krebs (no relation to Brian Krebs) who was head of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure S
[See the full post at: Security shouldn’t be political]

Susan Bradley Patch Lady/Prudent patcher

Total of 24 users thanked author for this post. Here are last 20 listed.

jburk07, PDX5802, Cameochi, rick41, AlphaCharlie, mledman, Nibbled To Death By Ducks, SueW, wavy, LH, Charlie, Myst, yvrhnl, fk5353, Chris B, ve2mrx, dohmixer, bob_101, LHiggins, howardagoldberg

Replies

I’m completely taken aback.

Everyone I know says that Chris has done an amazing job in a very tough situation.

Ah well. Here’s hoping he gets star status in the next administration – if he wants it, after all the malarkey he’s been through.

18 users thanked author for this post.

Noel Carboni, jburk07, PDX5802, rick41, AlphaCharlie, mledman, Nibbled To Death By Ducks, SueW, wavy, Charlie, Myst, Elly, fk5353, ve2mrx, bob_101, OscarCP, Fred, Kirsty

Chris Krebs has been fired after his agency, the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, last week released a statement calling the 2020 election “the most secure in American history.”

3 users thanked author for this post.

Nibbled To Death By Ducks, OscarCP, Charlie

[Fred]

As in many cases and places -everywhere-  the defenition of “political” is used to redefine truths. This degenetates the values of a society and misleads people. This time needs more honesty.

* _ ... _ *

• This reply was modified 4 years, 5 months ago by Fred.

5 users thanked author for this post.

rick41, Nibbled To Death By Ducks, OscarCP, Charlie, doriel

As Skin, of Skunk Anansie, so wisely sang (expurgated version): “Everything‘s Political”

This goes beyond the firing of one man. For the sake of dubious goals unlikely to be achieved, purges of such competent security experts as this one imperil the security of the USA.

Ex-Windows user (Win. 98, XP, 7); since mid-2017 using also macOS. Presently on Monterey 12.15 & sometimes running also Linux (Mint).

MacBook Pro circa mid-2015, 15" display, with 16GB 1600 GHz DDR3 RAM, 1 TB SSD, a Haswell architecture Intel CPU with 4 Cores and 8 Threads model i7-4870HQ @ 2.50GHz.
Intel Iris Pro GPU with Built-in Bus, VRAM 1.5 GB, Display 2880 x 1800 Retina, 24-Bit color.
macOS Monterey; browsers: Waterfox "Current", Vivaldi and (now and then) Chrome; security apps. Intego AV

4 users thanked author for this post.

rick41, Nibbled To Death By Ducks, wavy, Charlie

OscarCP wrote:

purges of such competent individuals imperil the security of the USA

In my humble opinion it’s not endangering only the USA, but all regions of the free world.

* _ ... _ *

5 users thanked author for this post.

rick41, mledman, Nibbled To Death By Ducks, OscarCP, Charlie

Tomorrow shows promise whilst today sees disbelief in the current administration and misuse of power (no difference from a dictatorship for the next couple of months), however, Chris Krebs will be in demand by the big fish, undeniably and can only shine more on his reputation and honesty.

In my humble opinion, surely all homeland security should be political. Cyberspace is just as much a threat as conventional threats that undermines business, govts but also inocent civilians. When we consider hackers can activate virtually anything with an internet connection from anywhere on or off the planet, things get serious.

2 users thanked author for this post.

OscarCP, Charlie

It bothers me that we fire people who are fully qualified for their jobs simply because they said something the big cheese didn’t like. Just because you don’t like what they say doesn’t mean they’re bad.

3 users thanked author for this post.

rick41, Nibbled To Death By Ducks, OscarCP

Quoting another anonymous poster: “Just because you don’t like what they say doesn’t mean they’re bad.”  I wish that were equally applied to *both* sides of political discussions.

1 user thanked author for this post.

dononline