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Head of US Cybersecurity Agency Fired

posted by Fnord666 on Thursday November 19 2020, @03:26PM   Printer-friendly
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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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday November 20 2020, @03:21AM (2 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday November 20 2020, @03:21AM (#1079583)

    "are back to a situation where vote selling and intimidation practices are feasible."

    So then you agree that we should do away with mail in ballots since mail in ballots allow me to simply show my ballot to someone else before submitting, right?

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday November 20 2020, @09:32PM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday November 20 2020, @09:32PM (#1079972)

    Yes, mail-in ballots are no longer secret. Removing them and only allowing in-person voting would be more secure. There's a bit of a difference between a few mail-in ballots and every ballot though. Also the current pandemic makes having everyone vote in-person a bit risky though, unless there are more voting locations or a longer voting window(more days to vote). And there's the issue of people that are eligible to vote but physically cannot get to a polling station. Personally I always did in-person voting until this November.

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday November 20 2020, @11:32PM

      by Anonymous Coward on Friday November 20 2020, @11:32PM (#1080014)

      "There's a bit of a difference between a few mail-in ballots and every ballot though."

      Uhm ... no. It's either possible and those that want to sell their votes can do it or it's not possible and they can't. There is no middle ground here.

      If you claim vote buying is a potential problem then any possibility for its existence is a potential problem. To claim otherwise is a non-sequitur.