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Russia Continues Humiliating Obama’s Incompetent Cybersecurity
Posted By Daniel Greenfield On April 25, 2015 @ 11:11 pm In The Point | No Comments
If only Obama had put in as much effort into national security as he did on targeting political opponents, maybe this wouldn’t have happened. Instead his foreign policy as a joke, his smart power has deterred no one and our enemies humiliate America and him [2].
A published report says Russian hackers who penetrated White House cybersecurity last year read some of President Barack Obama’s unclassified emails.
Saturday’s New York Times report said the hackers, who also accessed the State Department’s unclassified system, did not appear to have penetrated closely guarded servers that control message traffic from the president’s BlackBerry. Either Obama or an aid carries that device at all times.
But the report said hackers did gain access to email archives of people inside the White House with whom the president regularly communicated. From those accounts, the report said, intruders reached emails the president had sent and received.
The term classified, just as with Hillary’s emails, is debatable. The material was undeniably sensitive and if the hackers were just out for kicks, they would have posted them already. So this is a foreign government seriously compromising our national security, and it’s not even the worst such incident, compared to the amount of classified military plans stolen by China.
It’s largely forgotten now, but Obama claimed to have big cybersecurity plans in Term 1. Instead his administration watched over two major Russian humiliations of national security.
Bradley Manning, a mentally ill man, passed a good deal of information to Wikileaks, an organization either directly controlled by Russia or at least heavily infiltrated by it, considering the presence of Shamir, Ermash, or whatever he’s calling himself these days.
Edward Snowden did even more damage while outright defecting to Russia. At least some of the credit for that can be given to Putin’s successful cultivation of the Ron Paul crowd in the US who have begun acting the way that Communist fellow travelers did during the Cold War.
Despite our supposed constant eavesdropping, the ex-KGB bosses running Russia these days have run rings around us. And full credit belongs to a government which tried to push a reset button and show its flexibility instead of looking out for national security.
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