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Simpleχity;1066115819 said:Donald Trump Doesn’t Understand Cyberwar
The nominee is woefully unprepared for questions about the future of digital conflict....
Simpleχity;1066115819 said:Donald Trump Doesn’t Understand Cyberwar
The nominee is woefully unprepared for questions about the future of digital conflict....
Indeed. Paul Manafort and Carter Page spring to mind.There is a saying in business "You are who you hire".
Simpleχity;1066116828 said:Beyond Jimmy Carter, I'm sure none of our presidents fully understood nuclear physics. But all presidents certainly possessed an appreciation of the destructive potential of nuclear warfare.
It's fairly obvious that neither Trump nor Clinton possess a similar appreciation for the potential of cyber warfare, a national threat which will increase exponentially in the coming four years.
My bet is that neither esteemed candidate could name the nation that experienced a successful cyber-attack on its power grid in 2015.
I highly doubt either candidate is erudite enough to appreciate that it will require months to replace any custom-designed EHV-LPTransformers damaged in cyber-attacks.
I'd also wager that neither presidential camp has formulated a coherent US policy/architecture regarding cyber-defense and cyber-warfare.
Simpleχity;1066116828 said:Beyond Jimmy Carter, I'm sure none of our presidents fully understood nuclear physics. But all presidents certainly possessed an appreciation of the destructive potential of nuclear warfare.
It's fairly obvious that neither Trump nor Clinton possess a similar appreciation for the potential of cyber warfare, a national threat which will increase exponentially in the coming four years.
My bet is that neither esteemed candidate could name the nation that experienced a successful cyber-attack on its power grid in 2015.
I highly doubt either candidate is learned enough to appreciate that it will require months to replace any custom-designed EHV-LPTransformers damaged in cyber-attacks.
I'd also wager that neither presidential camp has formulated a coherent US policy/architecture regarding cyber-defense and cyber-warfare.
But Trump wasn't even aware of what the Nuclear Triad is.Simpleχity;1066116828 said:Beyond Jimmy Carter, I'm sure none of our presidents fully understood nuclear physics. But all presidents certainly possessed an appreciation of the destructive potential of nuclear warfare.
It's fairly obvious that neither Trump nor Clinton possess a similar appreciation for the potential of cyber warfare, a national threat which will increase exponentially in the coming four years.
My bet is that neither esteemed candidate could name the nation that experienced a successful cyber-attack on its power grid in 2015.
I highly doubt either candidate is learned enough to appreciate that it will require months to replace any custom-designed EHV-LPTransformers damaged in cyber-attacks.
I'd also wager that neither presidential camp has formulated a coherent US policy/architecture regarding cyber-defense and cyber-warfare.
Simpleχity;1066116828 said:Beyond Jimmy Carter, I'm sure none of our presidents fully understood nuclear physics. But all presidents certainly possessed an appreciation of the destructive potential of nuclear warfare.
It's fairly obvious that neither Trump nor Clinton possess a similar appreciation for the potential of cyber warfare, a national threat which will increase exponentially in the coming four years.
My bet is that neither esteemed candidate could name the nation that experienced a successful cyber-attack on its power grid in 2015.
I highly doubt either candidate is learned enough to appreciate that it will require months to replace any custom-designed EHV-LPTransformers damaged in cyber-attacks.
I'd also wager that neither presidential camp has formulated a coherent US policy/architecture regarding cyber-defense and cyber-warfare.
There is a saying in business "You are who you hire".
You can't do it all yourself. You hire experts to do it for you.
I would expect Trump would hire better people because he looks at the job and the person, and doesn't see government posts as patronage jobs designed to produce a paycheck for party VIP's until the next administration wins again.
Trumps job is the job, not the party.
There's another thread here that touches on this, about Trump's campaign manager.
Do YOU know anything about everything? :roll:
Neither does anyone else, and that goes for public figures too.
That's what expert advisor's are for. :coffeepap:
Donald Trump doesn't have to understand Cyberwar. He just has to appoint experts to understand cyberwar. Do we really think the president is omniscient? A president is as good as the experts he surrounds himself with...as good as his managerial ability... as good as his ability to appoint the right people and trust them to do a clearly defined job.
How can he appoint the right people when he doesn't even know what the general job description is?
Yes, he does have to understand cyberwar on a general level, in order to hire the right people for the job. He has to understand everything on a general level in order to hire the right people. That's what leaders are: generalists.
No one is asking him to get into the nitty gritty of the subject. They're asking him about whether, on a general theoretical level, he thinks cyberweapons are a thing the US should consider developing or using before physical ones. All he has to know to answer that question is roughly what our tech capabilities are, and roughly how he feels about our political capital with certain nations we have tensions with. That's super broad stuff. Even I know something about that, as do many other reasonably intelligent lay-people.
That is an incredibly general question that any commander-in-chief should have a general ethos about even if they don't know exactly what's been going on that week with cybersecurity, in the same way a shop owner has a general ethos about how to handle security, but may not have any idea exactly what the security guard dealt with on that particular night. It is something he should be able to answer.
Oh, stop. What was wrong with the answer he gave the reporter? Just another typical slam piece. You want to talk about the importance of Cyber Security?? And the Democratic candidate's email scandal where she didn't have the brains to realize the jeopardy she caused to secret communications? Now THAT'S ignorance.
Oh, stop. What was wrong with the answer he gave the reporter? Just another typical slam piece. You want to talk about the importance of Cyber Security?? And the Democratic candidate's email scandal where she didn't have the brains to realize the jeopardy she caused to secret communications? Now THAT'S ignorance.
:shrug: Hillary's Ignorance (and negligence) does not excuse Trump's ignorance (and negligence). Trump has repeatedly demonstrated himself to be ignorant on basic matters of foreign policy and national security. That he would be ignorant on a critical but agreeably more arcane topic is hardly surprising.
Yeah, well, I don't think he came off as ignorant.
A successful attack on any countries power grid is more devastating than sending in a standing army or bombing them into oblivion. Most modern cities are fully reliant on the power grid, and things lie computers going out could cripple all logistics, which would lead to mass starvation, as well as water supply issues.
The resulting chaos would destabilize a country, meaning if you wanted to destroy a modern country, just destroy it's power grid, as few anymore have a non computerized backup. One country I gorget which( i think switzerland but not sure) has a massive diesel generator almost 100 years old still running just as backup, so if the main power grid fails that old monster can still keep the city going, other cities do not have the option.
That is one reason I'm so high on Tesla/Solar City merger and the decentralization of the power grid though individuals going off grid with solar roof installations. A national conversion to rooftop solar can happen much quicker than many realize just at current growth rates in the industry.
As someone instinctively suspicious of that kind of hippy granola crap, I would love to be able to power my own house through solar / etc, and be able to sustain independently of the grid.
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