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Head of US Cybersecurity Agency Fired

posted by Fnord666 on Thursday November 19 2020, @03:26PM   
from the retribution-can-be-petty dept.

MostCynical writes:

The Guardian has a story detailing the firing of Christopher Krebs, who served as the director of the Department of Homeland Security's Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (Cisa)

President Trump made the announcement on Twitter on Tuesday, saying Krebs "has been terminated" and that his recent statement defending the security of the election was "highly inaccurate".

CISA last week released a statement refuting claims of widespread voter fraud. "The November 3rd election was the most secure in American history," the statement read. "There is no evidence that any voting system deleted or lost votes, changed votes, or was in any way compromised."

Krebs, is a former Microsoft executive, and was appointed by President Trump after allegations of Russian interference with the 2016 election.

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• Re:All a matter of perspective... Re:All a matter of perspective... (Score: 5, Insightful) by DannyB on Thursday November 19 2020, @06:34PM (1 child)

  by DannyB (5839) on Thursday November 19 2020, @06:34PM (#1079341) Journal

  The list of states you point out that do NOT use paper ballots is amusing. Those are the states I would LEAST trust to run fair elections. And Trump won in those.

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  Would a Dyson sphere [soylentnews.org] actually work?

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• Re:All a matter of perspective... (Score: 4, Insightful) by DeathMonkey on Thursday November 19 2020, @06:51PM

  by DeathMonkey (1380) on Thursday November 19 2020, @06:51PM (#1079348) Journal

  It wouldn't be 2020 without a MASSIVE dose of Republican hypocrisy thrown in the mix!

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