People sometimes think that cybersecurity is just about defending computer systems from remote adversaries. But it’s broader than that; cybersecurity has always been about protecting computer syste…
cybersecurity has always been about protecting computer systems more generally from any sort of misuse, no matter how the adversary might access them.
And misuse is defined the system’s owner, who in this case has given explicit permission to Musk. The whole article is predicated on the idea that Elon Musk…lied or put on a disguise or something. By any currently known measure, he’s allowed to be doing everything he’s doing because that’s what the current, duly-elected administration told him to do.
There was an image on the front page today of the everything-is-fine dog sitting among the flames saying “they can’t do this it’s illegal.” That seems apt for this article. America elected a fascist, and that fascist is openly tearing down all the informal rules and norms that we’ve always treated like laws.
Pretending like there’s a legal issue with a lot of what’s been happening is a distraction and waste of time that Democrats appear to be perfectly comfortable using as air cover to not exercise what little power they might have. I feel confident it will lead nowhere, and unless the people with power and influence who pretend to care figure out how to actually accomplish anything, we will just keep sinking.
By any currently known measure, he’s allowed to be doing everything he’s doing
Absolutely false. What he’s doing is illegal. It’s just that Trump has sufficiently cowed everybody that they’re letting him do it anyway.
You are confusing our system for some sort of monarchy, where once someone is elected president they can order literally any other part of the whole awesome power of the federal government to do literally anything they want. That is not at all the American system (well… until now, maybe, the jury’s still out), and for good reason.
This collapse of the guardrails of unitary power is a common feature of a modern democratic system collapsing.
There was an image on the front page today of the everything-is-fine dog sitting among the flames saying “they can’t do this it’s illegal.” That seems apt for this article. America elected a fascist, and that fascist is openly tearing down all the informal rules and norms that we’ve always treated like laws.
No. It’s laws. Deciding to have someone without the right security clearance to touch the computers he’s touching, to put a “pause” on a system that congress enacted, that non-political parts of the US government have been implementing, because you might have a mob of your followers attack the building if anyone tries to stop you, is actually illegal.
The laws mentioned are the Federal Advisory Committee Act and, in one of the links below, the Administrative Procedure Act but there are surely dozens of others if not more.
So…to my untrained ears this sounds kind of dumb.
And misuse is defined the system’s owner, who in this case has given explicit permission to Musk. The whole article is predicated on the idea that Elon Musk…lied or put on a disguise or something. By any currently known measure, he’s allowed to be doing everything he’s doing because that’s what the current, duly-elected administration told him to do.
There was an image on the front page today of the everything-is-fine dog sitting among the flames saying “they can’t do this it’s illegal.” That seems apt for this article. America elected a fascist, and that fascist is openly tearing down all the informal rules and norms that we’ve always treated like laws.
Pretending like there’s a legal issue with a lot of what’s been happening is a distraction and waste of time that Democrats appear to be perfectly comfortable using as air cover to not exercise what little power they might have. I feel confident it will lead nowhere, and unless the people with power and influence who pretend to care figure out how to actually accomplish anything, we will just keep sinking.
Absolutely false. What he’s doing is illegal. It’s just that Trump has sufficiently cowed everybody that they’re letting him do it anyway.
You are confusing our system for some sort of monarchy, where once someone is elected president they can order literally any other part of the whole awesome power of the federal government to do literally anything they want. That is not at all the American system (well… until now, maybe, the jury’s still out), and for good reason.
This collapse of the guardrails of unitary power is a common feature of a modern democratic system collapsing.
No. It’s laws. Deciding to have someone without the right security clearance to touch the computers he’s touching, to put a “pause” on a system that congress enacted, that non-political parts of the US government have been implementing, because you might have a mob of your followers attack the building if anyone tries to stop you, is actually illegal.
I may very well be wrong, happy to admit it. Do you know what laws are being broken?
Click on the article, then click on the link that says “laws that limit.”
I get page not found 🤷
The link is malformed somehow. The proper link is:
https://www.afge.org/article/afge-allies-file-suit-against-trump-omb-over-doge/
The laws mentioned are the Federal Advisory Committee Act and, in one of the links below, the Administrative Procedure Act but there are surely dozens of others if not more.
Truly I wish that lawsuit the best. I still think the tone of the article is off, but certainly I may be guilty of the same.
Thanks for taking the time. Hard to keep from sinking too deep into despondency.
Same seems they deleted the article.