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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: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Friday November 20 2020, @04:20AM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday November 20 2020, @04:20AM (#1079613)

    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?

    You can't have it both ways. Either vote buying is an issue and we should do away with mail in ballots. Or it's not an issue and we should create a proof based voting system.

    I am entitled to proof based voting system. I am entitled to it because I pay taxes. A government that doesn't provide for one is a fraud.

    and your statement isn't really true regardless. The above response is assuming it is true which it's not.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday November 21 2020, @11:15PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Saturday November 21 2020, @11:15PM (#1080262)

    Let me jump in here. When buying a vote. How much would I have to pay for someone to bother voting my way and how do I find one who would not snitch? Those are issues when trying to buy votes. The price for one single vote is likely very high and to make a dent one would need to buy a lot and not get snitched on at the same time. In addition a vote seller could take offers from many vote buyers and send a fake photo to everyone one of them, submitting your own vote for real and cash in. If we'ree going to talk about buying votes, let's look at the logistic nightmare and risks of doing so.

    Where I live the vote counts in the local places are so low that we all know who gave that one vote who sticks out.. it's usually me.