“Russia and China are our biggest adversaries. With all the cuts being made to different agencies, a lot of cyber security personnel have been fired. Our systems are not going to be protected and our adversaries know this,” a source, who was familiar with the internal memo, told The Guardian. “People are saying Russia is winning. Putin is on the inside now.”

Another anonymous source, who said that CISA staff had been “verbally informed that they were not to follow or report on Russian threats,” expressed concern for the shift: “There are thousands of US government employees and military working daily on the massive threat Russia poses as possibly the most significant nation state threat actor. Not to diminish the significance of China, Iran, or North Korea, but Russia is at least on par with China as the most significant cyber threat,” they said.

  • @[email protected]
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    12 hours ago

    Imagine voting a president that intentionally destroys the country and all its protections to get a patpat from a president of a mostly enemy state.

    Patpat:

  • @[email protected]
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    1814 hours ago

    This is massive. The government has historically been a prime source of knowledge of emerging cybersecurity threats, many of which are from Russia. This will have a huge impact on private sector cyber security.

    • @pdxfed
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      18 hours ago

      The call was already made from inside the house, we didn’t need to let them in.

    • @ZILtoid1991
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      23 hours ago

      All you need is to offer him some booze, like Vodka, which the Russians are famous for.