DHS removes all members of cyber security advisory boards, halts investigations
The core tenet of Muskism, as described at length in Isaacson's bio is around those lines:
* question all the rules
* when in doubt, slash the rule, and see what happens
* if it's really bad without it, bring back the rule
* if you don't have to bring back 10% of the rules that you slashed, you haven't slashed enough yet
We're now entering the phase where everything is getting slashed.
At the level of a company, this can bring great efficiencies, and make reusable self-driving rockets.
Unfortunately, at the level of a Federal Government, it will bring lower taxes, but some of the 10% will end with coffins.
We'll watch from the other side of the Atlantic how the great libertarianism experiment goes for the US.
I expect both impressive improvements, and dramatic karmic irony.
This is running here as a story about cybersecurity, but it's apparently every advisory committee at DHS; there were a bunch of them, mostly not about technology; for instance, the National Commercial Fishing Safety Advisory Committee.
Can somebody give me a rational take on why? It feels immensely reactive. Salt Typhoon would seem to represent an active threat. Didn't DHS act quite.. conservatively?
A comment on the blusky thread went to "five eyes should stop sharing information" which I suspect won't happen, but I could see people thinking it should.
Whatever problems or limitations the existing approach had dropping everything on the floor is one of the least helpful ways of trying to fix it (assuming good intent).
Is this explainable in any way by the cost of running these boards? By the sound of it the cost-benefit of thwarting Salt Typhoon is probably not optimal at zero investment.
The swiftness here really cements the notion of a useful idiot. Makes you wonder who crafted the details then the execution.
It's strange to me how 'cyber security' went from 0days and spear phishing to misinformation on Twitter.
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The already highly compromised ideologues who seized control of the federal government are dismantling it because they said they would.
Every comment on this post is frighteningly uninformed about current events.