Reporter Who Wrote Times 'Snowden' Propaganda Admits He's Just Writing What UK Gov't Told Him

[MADem]

79. The Chinese and Russians do it differently than we do--they put their hackers in uniform.

They have a massive building full of guys who do nothing but hack, hack, hack around the clock. They make it very worth their while, while at the same time enforcing discipline. We've got a bunch of free spirited creative types countering them, they've got dogged types and relentless numbers...and I'm sure that plenty of those uniforms have a creative bent, too--they just know that the nail that sticks up gets hammered down.

I wouldn't be surprised that their focus is more 'urgent' than ours, either. We probably need to change that paradigm. That won't go over well here, but abdicating isn't going to make them go away and say "Oh well, those Americans are off the clock, we can go home, too."

I'd rather see nations fighting it out on the internet than fighting it out on the battlefield. As for us civilians, we're gonna be collateral damage if we don't learn to watch our shit on the information superhighway, and realize that we can't wander down the middle of the road and not get hit by a semi. It's a new world out there, and a lot of people haven't adjusted to it. The number of fools brought down by phishing scams--and phishing scams on GOVERNMENT COMPUTERS, no less--is obscene and absurd. That should just NEVER happen. If they fired people when that stuff happened, odds are, it would stop real quick. We simply don't enforce any kind of security discipline when it comes to OPSEC online, and we should get serious. Of course, nothing happened when Bush WH staff used YAHOO and RNC servers, and there weren't any prohibitions against doing the very same at other cabinet agencies. Why? Because the idiots we have running government computers SUCK. A lot of them are old men who barely understand dos, but who got their jobs by bullshitting people who couldn't find the ON/OFF button, and have moved up the ranks. We need better, smarter, more innovative people, and better security too--it's a tough mix to accommodate, because creative types chafe at security measures....