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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/
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TOO BAD YOU CAN'T BUY a voodoo globe so that you could make the earth spin
real fast and freak everybody out.
-- Jack Handey, The New Mexican, 1988.
(Score: 0, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Monday May 15 2017, @01:17PM (4 children)
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)
Carefuk
I'm confused. Did you mean "careful" or "carefuck"?
(Score: -1, Offtopic) by Anonymous Coward on Monday May 15 2017, @02:04PM
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)
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
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.