Comments on: “Feds Who Didn’t Even Discover The OPM Hack Themselves…”

By: We're from the federal government, trust us with your data security - Overlawyered

Wed, 17 Jun 2015 10:15:03 +0000

[…] joined host Ray Dunaway yesterday on Hartford’s WTIC 1080 to discuss the OPM hack (earlier on which) and schemes to extend federal regulatory control over private data security. You can listen […]

By: mojo

mojo — Mon, 15 Jun 2015 20:40:45 +0000

This is what happens when you put people who do not understand what their job IS in charge of organizations they also do not understand.

They have a set of mandated political outcomes they conceive of as “their job” and no idea how to produce them given those resources.

Result: chaos and widespread panic.

By: VMS

VMS — Mon, 15 Jun 2015 13:00:50 +0000

The statement that “But of course the feds will be totally competent in prescribing practice to the private sector, right?,” is way off base. The writer undoubtedly knows that those in the government that screwed up in this instance are completely divorced from those that know how to secure computer files properly.

My issue is whether the feds may prescribe security practices to the private sector at all, not whether they are competent to do so.