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littlegreen🌻🇺🇦's avatar

I think they do. I'm in Silicon Valley. Private sector companies are fierce about security.

There is definitely an awareness that industrial espionage and recreational hacking are threats.

Years ago I worked for the leading networking company. All they ever talked about was security, both to customers and internally.

It's the government that never caught on.

fuflans's avatar

i posted this on FB when somebody here posted it a while back and i think got more likes than i ever have.

Scooby's avatar

American hubris is unbounded.

The Psy of Life's avatar

He's hoping that the Russians can continue stealing elections for him until he gets made president-for-life and the Repubes the permanent-Congressional-majority-for-life.

Moar Wordz's avatar

****silently judging your porn habits******Shit, I have people loudly judging my masturbation habits when I walk down the street, go to a restaurant, or drive down the street, or stay home and drink seltzer. They keep suggesting moar pills at the Psych office, cutely thinking I'm imagining it.

Amy!'s avatar

Has he put on his robe and wizard hat?

Civil Unrest Engineer (kLo)'s avatar

I’m not gonna lie. I read the first paragraph and just skipped to the video. We’re so fucked.

Stulexington's avatar

Why is this stuff accessible online? I know I'm an old but I remember a time when people accepted the best way to secure a system was to not connect it to the internet.

JCfromNC's avatar

Because people wanna work from home. Because bosses want to check up on things (i.e., employees) outside of their (the bosses') working hours. Because (subset of first reason) network engineers don't want to get out of bed, get dressed and drive to the office for a two-minute server fix. Lotsa reasons. Does that make it right? No, probably not.

JCfromNC's avatar

But Silicon Valley is kind of a special case, where cyber awareness is concerned. Get out of there and you'll find a completely different environment.

The Librarian's avatar

I like the "harsh language and sad face emoji" analogy, pretty much sums it up. "Fuck you Vlad, :( p.s. did I do this right? meet me later?" DJT

𝔅𝔢𝔢𝔩𝔷𝔢𝔟𝔲𝔟𝔟𝔞's avatar

When asked why Russia was committing cyber-espionage and openly hostile acts causing damage and destruction to the United States, Putin answered, "Why not? I mean, literally, why not?"

𝔅𝔢𝔢𝔩𝔷𝔢𝔟𝔲𝔟𝔟𝔞's avatar

Sure, everybody wants e-mail and mommyblog access, but it seems to me that, say, the reactor control rods ought not be adjustable from your home office.Or be run in Windows XP.