01-08-2017, 02:14 PM
(01-08-2017, 01:43 PM)GMDino Wrote: Probably goes back to Clinton too. I now we had our first computer in 1996 with email. I'm sure many had it before that, especially in government.
The technology is probably outpacing the knowledge of the people using it, especially those elected to government positions.
That's one reason why PE Trump said "computers just complicated things". He'd rather use a bicycle courier and handwritten notes than learn the new technology. (even if his companies use it extensively) because it would be confusing to him.
Its why he doesn't understand how they can "know" Russia was behind the hacks too...too "complicated".
Yup. Think of the television series The West Wing. That was at the end of the Clinton presidency, and while that is obviously a work of fiction, the presence of computers in that show is no doubt a reflection of what was occurring in the real White House. And as long as there have been computers connected to a network containing sensitive information, there have been state actors attempting to retrieve that information using less than legal means as well as users that have been less careful than they ought to be with their access to that information.
Security for this information is only as good as the least secure person using the system.
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