You have to work in the field to really know how screwed we truly are. It is truly chilling how little regard there is for security almost anywhere.
I know exactly how screwed we could be.
I am preparing my sticks and stones
Methinks it’s safe to say that minus the zombies, we’d be living in season one of The Walking Dead almost overnight. What really frosts my ass is the fact that the assclowns in D.C. are well aware of the threats, yet they do nothing. 1.5 trillion more in spending yesterday. How much of that (and this is a rhetorical question)actually went towards national security infrastructure, and not towards bullshit pork projects that do nothing but add to the “Putin pricetag”?
A large part of that is because the U.S. government conspired with companies to drive down tech wages. CEOs complained how much they had to pay for competent tech staff and the government agreed to help them drive down wages. I know quite a few former IT staff who want nothing to do with any of it.
I also witness problems every day that were resolved in the 1990s but reappear because the younger, less competent IT staff have no connection the past at all; they're either foreigners from deficient training and schooling programs or have no sense of growth and progression and don't know nor care what can go wrong.
I see more and more IT staff who are learning on the company dime. They're figuring it out as they go and often go with the first solution they find but have no idea what other complications it's going to cause down the road.
I also see more and more tech staff who, when you get to know them, admit they have no IT background at all but were thrown into something because they were somewhat capable.
Does it have anything to do with all the backdoors the Chinese foundries built into the chips?