#ALERT Tomorrow Trump will be signing a 'Cyber Security' Executive Order. But here it is today. UR w

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15. Section 7, (a)(ii)

(Note: any typos in the following are mine. When in doubt, look at the pdf.)

The Capabilities Review's recommendations shall include steps to insure that the responsible agencies are appropriately organized, tasked and resources, and provided with adequate legal authority necessary to fulfill their missions.

(bold is mine)

OK, that can't be good. Then we have this:

Section 8: Private infrastructure incentives report

(i) Preparation of a Report on options to incentivize private sector adoption of effective cyber security measures...

Section 8 (c) also discusses inducing private sector owners and operators to "adopt best practices with respect to processes and technologies necessary for the increased sharing of and response to real-time cyber threat information.", among other things.

(again, bold is mine)

I interpret that as "we will give our buddies in the private sector loads of taxpayer dollars to install our spyware on their networks." What happens to those that refuse isn't addressed but given the track record of the current administration, my guess is that it wouldn't be good. That's also probably where the aforementioned "adequate legal authority" comes in.

Two things that may be helpful for those worried about internet privacy:

Tor browser: https://www.torproject.org/projects/torbrowser.html.en

Tails OS: https://tails.boum.org/