“And every one of those international companies has subsidiaries in Communist China and every other country in the world.
There are very few “American” companies anymore.”
that doesn’t really make a difference, its the passwords and security policy that are the real weakness. Anyone and everyone with access to the information is a potential security risk in that their access can be compromised in a wide range of ways ranging from someone simply cracking their password to someone actually cracking them(blackmail or turncoat).
The password believe it or not may actually be the easier of the two to crack. For a computer it is just letters and numbers. In ether event it all boils down to a numbers game. The more people with access to the information the more passwords and/or people there are that can compromise it all.
The U.S. Federal government is huge and its size is in fact its biggest security problem.
The fact that they apparently allowed remote access to theses systems and data only multiplied the digital threat by making its potential attackers the entire world rather than just those who can reach the facility where its stored.
You can’t build a fortress capable of perpetually standing up to such a threat, and so it was really only a matter of time. I figured we had more time.
Well, I guess they should close the barn door.