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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 Saturday November 21 2020, @01:33AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Saturday November 21 2020, @01:33AM (#1080045)

    Ain't it funny how all us tech types went from saying electronic voting was so flawed in the US that every result should be assumed to be fraud to saying it's secure enough to blindly trust without a paper trail over the course of four years?

    Ain't it funny how Bruce Schneier, maybe one of the top two or three most respected and trusted security researchers in the world, just reposted a paper written by Ron Rivest, who literally invented modern cryptography, and three other highly respected security researchers from MIT, about how electronic voting is "a spectacularly dumb idea for a whole bunch of reasons" [schneier.com]. But, why listen to them when you could listen to right-wing nutcases!