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

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: 1, Troll) by Entropy on Monday May 15 2017, @12:29PM (12 children)

    by Entropy (4228) on Monday May 15 2017, @12:29PM (#509971)

    ...In the Internet security policy, in my opinion. We need more transexual bathroom rights.

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  • (Score: 0, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Monday May 15 2017, @01:17PM (4 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday May 15 2017, @01:17PM (#509994)

    Carefuk, Kurenai Tsubasa will get his/her/its panties knotted up.

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday May 15 2017, @01:38PM (1 child)

      by Anonymous Coward on Monday May 15 2017, @01:38PM (#510001)

      Carefuk

      I'm confused. Did you mean "careful" or "carefuck"?

      • (Score: -1, Offtopic) by Anonymous Coward on Monday May 15 2017, @02:04PM

        by Anonymous Coward on Monday May 15 2017, @02:04PM (#510015)

        Did you mean "careful" or "carefuck"?

        Stop being transphobic [twimg.com] #510001 [soylentnews.org]

        National security depends on it!

    • (Score: 1) by kurenai.tsubasa on Monday May 15 2017, @05:09PM (1 child)

      by kurenai.tsubasa (5227) on Monday May 15 2017, @05:09PM (#510123) Journal

      So the last couple time I went to get a pack of smokes, this gas station that's on the way to work that I've been going to for years has had every single other kind of cigarette my favorite brand sells except the one I want. So instead I've started going to a Walgreens down the road. Well, anytime I start buying tobacco or vape products somewhere new, for about the first two weeks I have to remember to get my ID out.

      So the lady behind the counter asks for my ID, and I give it to her. This is the really fun part about being me. See, if it's busy and they're trying to move the line as fast as possible, even people who sexually identify as Apache Attack Copters will just check the date of birth for scan the barcode on the back for Skynet's benefit. Now, today it wasn't busy. I took an early “lunch” break, so it must have been around 10 or 11 or so; I must have been the only customer in the story.

      The cashier checks my date of birth. Now this is where I have to really control myself so I don't just burst out laughing. She's about to hand it back to me, when something catches her eye. I like to watch people's facial expressions when this happens.

      So she looks up from my ID, stares at me for a few seconds, then starts to get this horrified look on her face as she looks over my ID for another minute. You can just tell that this person is now thinking, “Oh shit, oh shit, it's a T-900 advanced infiltration unit from the post-apocalyptic future here to rape me in a transgender bathroom!” The problem is as I've said many times before, I appear to be a perfectly normal womyn-born-womyn, yet my legal documents say I'm male. Maybe she was a regular at the Michigan Womyn's Music Festival before the Jews, er... Democrats, er... Progressivists, er... Satanists, er... either Skynet or John Henry, one of those intelligences from the future shut it down due to their policy of not admitting advanced infiltration cybernetic organisms (not robots! There's a big difference between a Soong-type Android/Gynoid or something from the 24th century and a T-900 advanced infiltrator! Mostly the T-900 chassis come equipped with hardware and wetware to enable a very deep understanding of human nature, whereas the Soong-types have difficulty understanding human nature since it simply wasn't part of their design to infiltrate human social groups).... where was I?

      Oh, right. Eventually she hands me back my ID then nervously makes a comment about the weather, which is very nice today. Sunny, about 70, light breeze, really feels nice my infiltrator shell/woman suit. We make some small talk while payment terminal runs the transaction, and then I'm on my way.

      • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday May 16 2017, @01:53AM

        by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday May 16 2017, @01:53AM (#510342)

        As an advanced infiltrator do you have any knowledge on which SN users are actual shills? It would make my day to have the real users realize they've been cheering on some government paid tools.

  • (Score: 3, Informative) by Grishnakh on Monday May 15 2017, @02:57PM (2 children)

    by Grishnakh (2831) on Monday May 15 2017, @02:57PM (#510044)

    The only people making laws about bathroom rights are the Republicans. It was never an issue until they made it one.

    • (Score: 2) by curunir_wolf on Monday May 15 2017, @08:28PM (1 child)

      by curunir_wolf (4772) on Monday May 15 2017, @08:28PM (#510214)

      The only people making laws about bathroom rights are the Republicans. It was never an issue until they made it one.

      No, that's false. The first law was a local one mandating schools and businesses in the city of Charlotte to accommodate fluid gender persons. Here is the original story about the city council interfering in how private businesses should operate their restrooms [inquisitr.com].

      The businesses and people affected asked for relief from this power grab, which is why the state legislature acted in the first place.

      --
      I am a crackpot
      • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday May 15 2017, @10:50PM

        by Anonymous Coward on Monday May 15 2017, @10:50PM (#510275)

        the Republicans. It was never an issue until they made it one.

        Yeah, the Dems passed a law, and it wasn't an issue. Until the Republican lizard brains freaked out that they might run into a Senator from Idaho in a public restroom and find themselves strangely drawn to wanting to snort meth off of the . . . The Republicans made it an issue, passed a bigoted law, and now we all cannot even go to one of the Carolinas.

  • (Score: 2) by kaszz on Monday May 15 2017, @05:48PM (3 children)

    by kaszz (4211) on Monday May 15 2017, @05:48PM (#510142) Journal

    I'm a quantumsexual, my sex is determined only upon interaction with the bathroom door. In other situations it's impossible to know which sex it is.

    I know.. it's confusing but I feel so undetermined. :-)

    • (Score: 2, Funny) by kurenai.tsubasa on Monday May 15 2017, @06:05PM

      by kurenai.tsubasa (5227) on Monday May 15 2017, @06:05PM (#510156) Journal

      See folks, this is why we need bathroom police! Here we've got these quantumsexuals entering all the bathroom doors simultaneously and making a mess when they interfere with themselves, when if there were just somebody outside the bathrooms observing people as they enter, their waveform would collapse and we wouldn't have to deal with the mess!

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday May 15 2017, @09:42PM

      by Anonymous Coward on Monday May 15 2017, @09:42PM (#510238)

      Is this like Schrödinger's bathroom? You don't know if you need to go or not until you look in the bathroom?

    • (Score: 2) by bob_super on Monday May 15 2017, @10:35PM

      by bob_super (1357) on Monday May 15 2017, @10:35PM (#510264)

      What do your partners say when they see a bathroom door on your bed?