[C210N]

Along with Russia "temporarily" pulling out of START.

The gears of war are being spun.

NCSWIC. Nothing.

[Yardstick]

At this point the idea of electronic communications that are truly secure seems pretty shaky.

[antidemoncrat]

If they could measure the IQ of governments, I’ll bet ours would come back -1.

[Vision]

When the leadership is pretending men are women expect this kind of stuff.

[MeganC]

This is a data breach regardless of what anyone else says. This is so not good.

[Magnum44]

[Oscar in Batangas]

Spy balloons are so 19th century. We have Google to help China vacuum up all the intel they need. Who knows, even today’s launch codes!

[Scrambler Bob]

And the process is to take all the computers attached to that net, purge/wipe them, and give them back to the users.

No uploading of backups (they might be corrupted, too).

Or so I have heard.

[StAnDeliver]

This one reads like a nimrod mistake that exposed some older background data, versus the other one mentioned in the piece which in late-White Hut banana republic terms, absolutely-most-definitely-was-deliberate:

"In 2015, suspected Chinese hackers stole millions of sensitive background check files of government employees who sought security clearance in a data breach at the U.S. Office of Personnel Management."

[hopespringseternal]

Industrial grade stupid is running the entire government. Every department and agency.

[smokingfrog]

I can’t imagine how this could have happened.