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Industry Reactions to Trump's Executive Order on Cybersecurity

posted by Fnord666 on Monday May 15 2017, @10:25AM   Printer-friendly
from the overdue dept.

MrPlow writes:

Submitted via IRC for TheMightyBuzzard

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/

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  • (Score: 2) by Nerdfest on Monday May 15 2017, @12:29PM (4 children)

    by Nerdfest (80) on Monday May 15 2017, @12:29PM (#509969)

    Step 1: Get critical infrastructure of the open fucking internet. Asshats.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday May 15 2017, @12:41PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday May 15 2017, @12:41PM (#509977)

    If you get the Internet's critical infrastructure, how are you gonna watch Netflix?

  • (Score: 2) by ledow on Monday May 15 2017, @02:50PM

    by ledow (5567) on Monday May 15 2017, @02:50PM (#510038) Homepage

    If we can VLAN stuff on our local nets, why can't government "VLAN off" its own stuff?

    Personally, I'd want an EO that said something like "If I can get on Google from your infrastructure networks, I want your IT turned off immediately".

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday May 15 2017, @03:59PM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday May 15 2017, @03:59PM (#510078)

    Step 1: Get critical infrastructure of the open fucking internet. Asshats.

    Did you mean they should get it off the internet? Very different meaning.

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday May 15 2017, @10:44PM

      by Anonymous Coward on Monday May 15 2017, @10:44PM (#510270)

      Henry? "My Kingdom, my kingdom for an 'f'!"