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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.
(Score: 2) by JoeMerchant on Friday November 20 2020, @02:34AM
Courses for horses, the attack surfaces and use cases are completely different. Audit trail needs are different. Could they be better? Sure can. So can medical device security, the insecurity of implantable pacemaker interfaces could literally shock you to death, but it has not happened yet - not because it is impossible to make a more secure pacemaker interface, but because the current designs serve the current users as optimally as the designers were able to at the time they were designed.
Needs change, the need for secure interfaces only grows more. We've known enough about theoretical security to make these systems "practically unbreakable" since the 1970s, had the hardware to do it in trivial money, time and power since the mid 1990s - what we're still juggling is usability vs ultimate security. Who do you trust to hold the keys? Why do you trust them?
Our OR based devices have a relatively low attack profile, little value in their stored information, marginal health risk if they are compromised, biggest concern in all our risk analyses is "delay of surgery" which is far above trivial, but hardly the brass ring for hackers. We're actually more of a target for bot-net recruitment than hacking our intended functions, and the bot-nets have far softer targets of opportunity in the hospital networks.
One of the big advantages our OR devices have is that they are powered down and/or disconnected from the network 99% of the time, a lot like voting machines.
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