Russia is a hacking powerhouse. We should all know that by now. Look at the controversy that followed the 2016 US election. Furthermore, Russian agents hacked Yahoo. But what does the current administration do? Anti-hacking deadline: Trump misses it.
So let’s go back to January 2017. President Trump promised to fight Russian hacking, and other forms of hacking as well. He also promised to put a team together to fight this hacking threat. That was 90 days ago. And we still don’t have an anti-hacking team. But in the last three months, contact still continues between US and Russian officials. However, some of the testimony, on both sides, is so confusing it stalls the process.
On January 31, President Trump had a meeting about this. Former NYC major Rudy Gulliani attended. In that meeting, President Trump said, “We must protect federal networks and data”. Some reports say he was supposed to sign an executive order about it. But somehow, it didn’t happen. This led to a lot of confusion. Just who is responsible for fighting anti-hacking? Is it the NSC (National Security Council)? Is it Homeland Security? There also seems to be a lot of confusion between the private sector and Washington. But nobody expects the White House to answer about this anti-hacking deadline.
But Russian hacking is a problem. Everyone in IT support knows it. And most Americans know it. Say what you will about the elections. But this issue gets scarier and scarier by the day. It’s bad enough they hacked over 350 million Yahoo emails. Also keep in mind these were Russian agents! Imagine what these hackers can do to our military and government secrets. So I really don’t care about deadlines. But this administration needs to do all it can to fight hacking. This is especially true when it comes to foreign hacking. Because China has also been accused of hacking the US. Don’t forget. Why do you think they missed the anti-hacking deadline?