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posted by Fnord666 on Thursday November 19 2020, @03:26PM   Printer-friendly
from the retribution-can-be-petty dept.

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: 2) by JoeMerchant on Sunday November 22 2020, @04:42PM

    by JoeMerchant (3937) on Sunday November 22 2020, @04:42PM (#1080451)

    Oh, I finally did get a job at a high turnover shop once - they did video security, had a whole custom system coded over 5 years by a team of 4 programmers. Speaking of best practices, after I had been there about a week I asked: "how do I build this from source?" "Oh, it's all on this server here, ssh in and follow the scripts." "Great, um, when is the last time that system was backed up?" Crickets, followed by lame evasion. I'm barely 5 days on the job so I shrug and go back to my desk. Just after I start walking away there's a flurry of activity and a few minutes later an announcement that the build server is going down for about an hour. Since my work was just interrupted I casually walk over and ask the IT guy who just showed up how's it going? "Oh, great, we're just taking a VM image of this box that holds the only copy of our build system for 40% of the company revenue, on a spinning hard drive."

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