Sometimes, if you listen to Barack Obama's rhetoric, you could almost believe that the man has never been president of the United States, or even a U.S. senator before that:
Barack Obama says the problem of cybersecurity hacks targeting the U.S. government is going to accelerate.
On whose watch? Or is this a tacit admission on his part that he's a lame duck, or perhaps a signal that he's going to make himself president-for-life, and either way has no reluctance about making self-damning public admissions that he doesn't have to care about?
Obama is addressing cybersecurity following a massive hack of U.S. government employees' personnel files, described as the most significant cyberattack in U.S. history.
Sounds to me like he should have been addressing cybersecurity for the past six and a half years.
Obama says part of the problem is the U.S. has very old systems for detecting intrusions.
And whose fault it that, Barry?
He says the U.S. is upgrading old systems agency by agency to ensure that technology is up to date.
"IS" upgrading. As in, started a few days ago. He claims. And, if genuine, will probably take years to accomplish. A "the hurrieder I go, the behinder I get" reactive dynamic that will ignore the continuing hacking advances our enemies will make, meaning this window of vulnerability is effectively uncloseable.
Also a distraction from the fact that catastrophic damage has already been done - with worse to come.
But Obama says the problem isn't going away. He says both governments and individuals are "throwing everything they've got" at U.S. systems. Obama says that's why the U.S. must be much more attentive to cybersecurity.
Say, did you know that Barack Obama has been POTUS since January 20th, 2009? He apparently wants us to believe he hasn't, with all the blame for all these debacle and fiascos and disasters flowing back to George W. Bush by default, I'm guessing. Or forward to the next POTUS, if there is one, and if there is, will not be a Democrat.
It's a new kind of solipsism that a "god" can be "lowering the seas" and "cooling the planet" and "stripping the country bucky-tail nekkid to cyberattack" and simultaneously stand outside of himself and bloodlessly analyze, like he were a by-standing MSNBCCCP ankle-biter. Which, if he does leave the White House in 592 days, might just be his first post-POTUS gig.
Unless they get hacked first. But don't worry, his Regime is "upgrading". Eventually, they won't even have to use punch cards.
UPDATE: Hello, Syrian Electronic Army:
The U.S. Army's public website has been hacked by someone demanding that the U.S. stop training rebel fighters in Syria, NBCNews.com reports.
Defense officials confirm the hack to NBC, saying no classified information or private personnel data were affected.
Popup messages reportedly proclaimed "YOU'VE BEEN HACKED" and added "YOUR COMMANDERS ADMIT THEY ARE TRAINING THE PEOPLE THEY HAVE SENT YOU TO DIE FIGHTING."
That's actually a true statement. Which means Red Barry might actually want to shut down those hackers.
UPDATE II: Here may be a reason for The One to take cybersecurity seriously - public distrust in government competence:
A new report questions whether the federal government can be trusted with personal information following the "disturbing" intrusion that saw hackers steal records tied to 4 million current and former federal employees.
In the Washington Post, Joe Davidson wonders whether the government is capable of keeping data safe and out of the hands of hackers....
"But it's not the word choice that has federal workers and members of Congress upset. It's the three T's — trust, times and time."
There have been several other hacking incidents that have resulted in millions of Americans having their personal information stolen. The latest example, according to investigators, points at Chinese hackers as the culprits.
"The number of reported information security incidents involving personally identifiable information (PII) has more than doubled over the last several years" at federal agencies, according to the Government Accountability Office, reports the Post.
Those figures, according to data cited by the Post, break down to 10,481 in fiscal year 2009 and 25,566 in 2013.
According to the Inspector General, which conducted an audit last fall, "the drastic increase in the number of systems operating without a valid Authorization is alarming and represents a systemic issue of inadequate planning by OPM program offices to authorize the information systems that they own," reports the Post.
The last thing a statist in a not-yet-entirely tyrannized country needs is for the public to lose its faith in government to do all and be all and run all. Public sector omnipresence is easy; public sector omnipotence is the goal; but maintaining the illusion of public sector omniscience is critical to the very political survival of their utopianist project. This ChiComm heist looks to have done at least significant damage to that naive lumpenproletarian faith in its "betters". That's not something on which Barack Obama can afford to "punt," if this is any indication.
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