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Head of US Cybersecurity Agency Fired

posted by Fnord666 on Thursday November 19 2020, @03:26PM   
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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• Weasel words from a gov temp Microsofter Weasel words from a gov temp Microsofter (Score: 3, Informative) by canopic jug on Thursday November 19 2020, @04:56PM (1 child)

  by canopic jug (3949) on Thursday November 19 2020, @04:56PM (#1079283) Journal

  ... we were all shouting how horribly flawed and completely unreliable electronic voting was.

  Yep. I still remember. I still shout. The fraud would be only in a subset of the states where the so-called voting and tabulating machines were used. I notice that a lot of the real election security experts have been terribly quiet for about a year though.

  Krebs, 43, is a former Microsoft executive appointed by Trump to head the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), a division of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security. As part of that role, Krebs organized federal and state efforts to improve election security, and to dispel disinformation about the integrity of the voting process.
    from Trump Fires Security Chief Christopher Krebs [krebsonsecurity.com]

  That asshole microsofter was just fired after having done his job (for M$ not the government) perfectly. That job was to cover for M$ by releasing some perfectly timed, extremely caged statements:

  • Yes, it is the most secure election of late, that's a low bar to cross. No, it was not secure on an absolute level.
  • No, there is no evidence of fraud, because the machines cannot provide evidence one way or the other.

  If he had been doing more than just covering for M$, he could have stated that the election was secure and that they have irrefutable evidence that the tallies are actually valid.

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  Money is not free speech. Elections should not be auctions.

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• Re:Weasel words from a gov temp Microsofter (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday November 19 2020, @05:33PM

  by Anonymous Coward on Thursday November 19 2020, @05:33PM (#1079306)

  How do explain that they are about to do recounts? If there are no ballots?

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