Thursday, June 15, 2017

The fault is yours, not the Russians!


Yes, I'm frustrated.  All the stuff in the news about Russian hacking.  The root causes of all the security breaches, whether email accounts, databases, or documents, are two:

  1. Someone clicked on something they shouldn't (phishing)
  2. Someone leaked information the shouldn't have, either because it was ethically wrong or it was legally wrong. 
Folks, this is a human problem, not a technology problem. And it is not 'their' fault.  Whether it is Hillary's server, the Democrat server, any of Hillary's comrade's emails, or documents released from undisclosed resources, the fault lies with the Democrats, Hillary, Hillary's comrades, or the deep state; it is not the fault of the Russians.  The "Russians" is just a euphemism for those out there that are trying to get information.  The Russians may in fact be Russians, but from a technological certainty, any one with a little technological black hat experience can fake the origin as Russians.

The lesson you need to take away from all this is that your clicking, your use of simple or the same password across multiple sites, your lax administration of your own IT environment, which allows any flash drive to insert bad stuff into your computer or take information out of your computing devices, is going to be the source of your security problems.

This whole episode in this country's history, and the whole assessment of your own security posture, is built on a lie if you don't follow the reasonable, responsible rules for internet security.  You are at fault; stop shifting the blame!


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