Billions Spent on U.S. Cyberdefenses Failed to Detect Giant Russian Hack
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/16/us/politics/russia-hack-putin-trump-biden.html
Pervasive official national security secrecy underlies this systemic failure to protect the very network invented by the United States to serve its interests by unfettered spying on others.
The hubris is astonishing in a way most familiar in autocracies and monarchies which presume their power and prowess and intelligence and policies are righteously impregnable.
So goes the rise of empires, so goes a period of supremacy, so goes the unchallenged corruption, so goes the downfall.
Maybe not yet a downfall of hardware weaponry and governance but only the digital command and control of them.
How certain can it be that the digital C and C of the US defense apparatus, personnel and signals, for threat warning and planned preventatives and retaliation, are still securely and safely available?
That national command authority continues to have means to unleash the mighty national security defenses so carefully and expensively crafted to deter attack or respond overwhelmingly?
The citizenry cannot be told answers due to an inviolable regime of secrecy to withhold crucial information of survival, justified by the hoary excuse that enemies would then know.
Best to lie to the public in the national interest, which happens to be wholly in the interest of the national security complex, pardon the cliche.
Cyber Pearl Harbor long predicted, has now happened, time to go back to fretting the truly national threatening pandemic which has killed more citizens than war games imagined.
What is the point of this blog if you simply uncritically stenograph zero-evidence claims of the government without even pointing to such basic facts that APT 28/29 is not some hacking group but a simply a set of IPs and hacking tools, that have long leaked, which means that any party can use them and will be indicated as APT 28/29?