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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: 0, Flamebait) by hemocyanin on Thursday November 19 2020, @09:28PM (3 children)

  by hemocyanin (186) on Thursday November 19 2020, @09:28PM (#1079435) Journal

  Paper trails only matter if the paper can be subjected to forensic testing. For example, it is interesting that so many mail-in ballots, presumably placed in envelopes, had no creases (*). In one affidavit, 500 in a row all with perfectly filled bubbles (**).

  * https://www.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.gand.283580/gov.uscourts.gand.283580.6.20.pdf [courtlistener.com]

  ** https://www.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.gand.283580/gov.uscourts.gand.283580.6.9.pdf [courtlistener.com]

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• Re:All a matter of perspective... Re:All a matter of perspective... (Score: 4, Informative) by DeathMonkey on Friday November 20 2020, @12:31AM (1 child)

  by DeathMonkey (1380) on Friday November 20 2020, @12:31AM (#1079504) Journal

  A Trump-appointed judge has rejected that nonsense. [lawandcrime.com]

  A federal judge appointed by President Donald Trump rejected what he called a “creative” lawsuit on Thursday. It was a suit that Georgia’s assistant attorney general warned would cause the Peach State’s largest disenfranchisement since the Jim Crow era.

  “To halt the certification at literally the 11th hour would breed confusion and disenfranchisement that I find have no basis in fact and law,” U.S. District Judge Steven Grimberg declared at the end of a roughly two-and-a-half hour hearing.

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  • Re:All a matter of perspective... (Score: 1, Insightful) by hemocyanin on Friday November 20 2020, @02:22AM

    by hemocyanin (186) on Friday November 20 2020, @02:22AM (#1079553) Journal

    Based on standing and other excuses regarding some agreement about mail-in ballots from 8 mos ago. Not on the substance.

    You would think with evidence of duplicated ballots though, somebody somewhere would have the guts to have them examined. The box numbers they're in is listed in one of the affidavits.

    It is interesting though that in America, we do everything we can to make elections less secure, less verifiable, and when testable claims of fraud are made, evade examining the evidence.

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• Re:All a matter of perspective... (Score: 3, Interesting) by The Mighty Buzzard on Friday November 20 2020, @01:15AM

  by The Mighty Buzzard (18) <themightybuzzard@proton.me> on Friday November 20 2020, @01:15AM (#1079520) Homepage Journal

  They need to be printed twice, with a matching nonce on the printouts. Doesn't have to be personally identifiable, properly created hashes would work just fine. You just need to be able to check online afterwards to make sure your shit got registered and didn't get changed.

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  My rights don't end where your fear begins.

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