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Donald Trump Doesn’t Understand Cyberwar

OpportunityCost said:
Got a friend lives in the California interior in the Central Valley, his solar will pay for itself in about 8 years due to favorable solar conditions (you can read that as a 6 year drought if you want).
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I live in North Carolina. It would be well more than a decade :(. I'm really betting on technological progress.

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Simpleχity;1066115819 said:
Donald Trump Doesn’t Understand Cyberwar


The nominee is woefully unprepared for questions about the future of digital conflict....


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yawn...

Let me know when Mr. Waddell writes an article about Hillary's understanding of ANYTHING cyber-related.

"You mean, like, wipe it with a cloth???"
 
Mycroft said:
yawn...

Let me know when Mr. Waddell writes an article about Hillary's understanding of ANYTHING cyber-related.

"You mean, like, wipe it with a cloth???"
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Exactly.

Not only that, just based on the questions and answers it doesn't sound like "a rare, in-depth interview" or the high points of such an interview. It sounds like a hit piece in taking the worst possible rather than being fair by any sort of measure.

Ahh. I see now.

It's an article from "The Atlantic" (a known leftist rag) based on an article from NYT (another leftist rag) - so that's leftist factorial then, well, what did you expect as a result?
 
Donald Trump doesn't understand A LOT of things. Common decency. Decorum. Courtesy. Hell, the list is nearly endless.
 
Simpleχity;1066115819 said:
Donald Trump Doesn’t Understand Cyberwar


The nominee is woefully unprepared for questions about the future of digital conflict....


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MaggieD said:
Donald Trump doesn't have to understand Cyberwar. He just has to appoint experts to understand cyberwar. Do we really think the president is omniscient? A president is as good as the experts he surrounds himself with...as good as his managerial ability... as good as his ability to appoint the right people and trust them to do a clearly defined job.
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Correct.

I personally hope Trump recruits John McAfee to lead on national cybersecurity. McAfee repeatedly tried bringing public attention to the issue throughout his short-lived presidential bid, and he certainly has the necessary technological expertise to make a solution happen.
 
Simpleχity;1066115819 said:
Donald Trump Doesn’t Understand Cyberwar


The nominee is woefully unprepared for questions about the future of digital conflict....


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...and Hillary understands NOTHING about emails. She said so today.

It is not important the Prez understand a whole lot about a rapidly changing technology.

What is important, is they HIRE people that DO understand it better than the bad guys.

Any Prez, be they Hillary, Trump, or Bernie, does not need to know all the ins and outs of every subject under the sun.

It is important they hire people that do, and advise them intelligently.

What a Prez needs to know is how to make important decisions correctly and know when someone is trying to BS them with wrong information.

ie...Global Warming, WMDs, Saddam, ISIL being a JV team, & thinking American voters are unthinking idiots.
 
Romanii said:
Correct.

I personally hope Trump recruits John McAfee to lead on national cybersecurity. McAfee repeatedly tried bringing public attention to the issue throughout his short-lived presidential bid, and he certainly has the necessary technological expertise to make a solution happen.
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Not to be a party pooper, but McAfee has been in and out of jail the last few years on a series of bizarre charges, and even fled to South America for a while.

It's been weird. Interesting read, actually. But it appears he hasn't been of sound mind for quite a while.

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Simpleχity;1066115819 said:
Donald Trump Doesn’t Understand Cyberwar


The nominee is woefully unprepared for questions about the future of digital conflict....


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Don't be silly. He got an excellent military experience at the boarding school for really rich bad boys. And, he managed to dodge the draft and get declared unfit for military service. And, he denigrated Sen. McCain not for his politics but for his service to his country, something Donald avoided.

Not understanding cyberwarfare is the least of his failings.
 
Hilary or Trump have military experience.

If one believes having military experience is a required to be President, we would not have Obama.

Seems the DNC does not understand cyberwar. If they did they would have protected their email.
Seems Hilary does not understand cyberwar. If she did she would not have used a private server like she did.

As far as Trump. He most likely has an understanding as good as Clintons.

(by the way I don't like either Trump or Hilary).
 
SmokeAndMirrors said:
Not to be a party pooper, but McAfee has been in and out of jail the last few years on a series of bizarre charges, and even fled to South America for a while.

It's been weird. Interesting read, actually. But it appears he hasn't been of sound mind for quite a while.
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Yeah, I've heard about that. He drove & carried a firearm while intoxicated, and he had a major falling-out with the corrupt government of Belize. He's eccentric for sure, but as far as I can tell, he isn't mentally unstable or guilty of any serious crime. I think it's a mistake to dismiss one of America's most talented cyber-geniuses because of a DUI.
 
Romanii said:
Yeah, I've heard about that. He drove & carried a firearm while intoxicated, and he had a major falling-out with the corrupt government of Belize. He's eccentric for sure, but as far as I can tell, he isn't mentally unstable or guilty of any serious crime. I think it's a mistake to dismiss one of America's most talented cyber-geniuses because of a DUI.
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Weeelll... As I understand it, he's also illegally crossed borders, faked heart attacks to avoid legal consequences, and a variety of other things.

He is also a murder suspect, and that corrupt Belizean government basically just got tired of chasing him around South America and decided to just let it go -- he is still wanted to this day in Belize. He's also currently facing a wrongful death civil suit for it, so this isn't exactly history.

He believes his neighbors are assassins and a bunch of conspiracy theories about hackers. He also employed gang members to protect his house at one point, paranoid man that he is.

He doesn't seem to be the most stable individual in the world. Even when taken by itself, most 70-year-olds aren't driving drunk with their firearms (also, he is a recovering addict, so this is a pretty big relapse). If that had been something he'd done 50 years ago in a fit of youthful stupidity, that'd be one thing. But he seems to be getting worse with age, not better.
 
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"Donald Trump Doesn’t Understand Cyberwar"

But Hillary does?
 
laska said:
That is one reason I'm so high on Tesla/Solar City merger and the decentralization of the power grid though individuals going off grid with solar roof installations. A national conversion to rooftop solar can happen much quicker than many realize just at current growth rates in the industry.
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It is probably a step, but prices still need to go down and personal storage needs to greatly improve.

Decentralizing the grid though would make cyber attacks useless unless they could shut down numerous small grids, while alot of cities now run 1 or 2 plants, some areas multiple cities share one plant.

The other option as a more current solution is a non computerized backup system, sure it is a hassle to operate over a computerized one, but people did it for decades, and it would be mostly a backup.
 
mike2810 said:
Hilary or Trump have military experience.

If one believes having military experience is a required to be President, we would not have Obama.

Seems the DNC does not understand cyberwar. If they did they would have protected their email.
Seems Hilary does not understand cyberwar. If she did she would not have used a private server like she did.

As far as Trump. He most likely has an understanding as good as Clintons.

(by the way I don't like either Trump or Hilary).
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No, it's not required. But when a candidate touts his "military experience" based on time in a fancy boarding school, that's relevant. It shows a lack of contact with reality.
 
fmw said:
"Donald Trump Doesn’t Understand Cyberwar"

But Hillary does?
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Remember when a reporter asked Hillary if she wipe her home brew server clean?
She replied with a chuckle, You mean with a cloth?
 
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