As if our government isn't more vulnerable than it already is.
this post was submitted on 18 Jun 2025
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This is all by design
And/or extreme incompetence
No, I genuinely do think the unsaid part of their game plan is to just destroy as much as they can, wherever they can, as they extract wealth from everything possible. And then they’ll try to bootstrap a techno-fascist feudal system, most likely.
Yep create chaos everywhere to distract people from fleecing everyone everywhere in parallel. I align with your thinking.
incompetence, incontinence, tomato, tomahto
I'm starting to think he just likes writing his name on anything, just like he likes hearing his own voice and patting himself on the ~~back~~ diaper.
He probably doesn't even read much of anything he signs.
I’m sure he understands excruciatingly little.
patting himself on the back diaper
His rash has gotta be so hot and angry by now that his ass cheeks glow in the dark
Cybersecurity practitioners are voicing concerns over a recent executive order issued by the White House that guts requirements for: securing software the government uses, punishing people who compromise sensitive networks, preparing new encryption schemes that will withstand attacks from quantum computers, and other existing controls.
The executive order (EO), issued on June 6, reverses several key cybersecurity orders put in place by President Joe Biden, some as recently as a few days before his term ended in January. A statement that accompanied Donald Trump's EO said the Biden directives "attempted to sneak problematic and distracting issues into cybersecurity policy" and amounted to "political football."
The guy who famously doesn't ever use a computer, "writing" and "signing" an Executive Order about Cybersecurity while complaining about Biden using the autopen.
It can't get any fucking stupider out here.
Everything is computer!
Extremely wise in light of the fact that we are going to war with an adversary that specializes in cyber warfare
Which one, you just described 4-5 nations
Yep
This policy brought to you by the party of "bird flu is everywhere and only vaccines got us through the recent pandemic, so cancel all vaccine research and stop distributing vaccines," and "climate change is already having devastating effects and will destroy everything we have if it continues to accelerate, so make renewable energy prohibitively difficult and expensive and attempt to expand the coal industry," and also "natural disasters are becoming more frequent and intense, so dismantle FEMA."
Blyat!