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On Thursday, President Donald Trump signed a long-awaited executive order on cybersecurity.
Mainly, the order requires a number of cybersecurity reviews across the various agencies of the federal government, in order to determine what must be done to strengthen federal computer systems, as well as United States' critical infrastructure.
Here are some industry reactions to the executive order Help Net Security received.
Source: https://www.helpnetsecurity.com/2017/05/12/reactions-trump-cybersecurity/
(Score: 1, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Monday May 15 2017, @12:12PM (2 children)
Of course not. The vendors already knew.
The vendors were fucking complicit.
There is no "free market." Either cooperate and get a monopoly in your market, or die.
It's been this way since ATT.
US Government picks and chooses its winners. It's exactly why Oracle still exists, why Nokia "needed" Elop, and how Red Hat is a multi-billion dollar company despite people without a clearance not knowing anybody who pays for it.
It's also how things like press backspace 28 times to let you bypass a password protected grub loader gets into the code.
(Score: 2) by ticho on Monday May 15 2017, @12:34PM
I guess I have this mythical "clearance" then, whatever that is.
(Score: 2) by urza9814 on Wednesday May 17 2017, @02:31AM
The university I attended (PSU) pays for Red Hat. The company I currently work for pays for Red Hat. That's literally every large computing installation that I've worked with up to this point, and they all pay for Red Hat.
And I couldn't get any kind of clearance even if I wanted to.