Obama-Era Cybersecurity Protocols Deserve Scrutiny

Under the Obama administration:

* Russians ratcheted up fake news and other types of information warfare

* Attempted to hack voting machines

* Snowden fiasco took place

* Russians stole NSA data using Kaspersky (despite which fact, US government government proceeded to continue using Kaspersky software until very recently)

* Russians got the source code for Pentagon cybersecurity software

* There were many major hacks

* Hillary's security problems

* DNC server security breach and repeated attempted attacks on various Republican presidential candidates and entites

* The Congressional Pakistani IT staffer scandal is set in place with thousands of unauthorized access units to emails and servers, not to mentioned stolen equipment, various frauds, etc etc.

So we get a Russia probe exploring Donald Trump's connections to Russia, but no probe on poor security protocols promoted by the Obama administration, and in place to this day. Why is that? Inquiring minds want to know.

Is Nothing Sacred? Russian hackers get the NSA

Everyone's all upset about the missing DNC server which may or may not have been hacked by the Russians, and possibly the rest of the world; meanwhile, Russian hackers made their way into NSA and got juicy info on US cyber Defense. And that's not counting the epic fail last year, when Hewlett Packard basically gave the Russian cybersecurity firm the source code for Pentagon, if not more.

This proves 2 things: 1. Nothing is unhackable 2. Throwing money at a problem may actually contribute to the problem.

Before allocating any more funding for security to the supposedly secure intelligence agencies, Congress should ask some hard questions about lessons learned from the Edward Snowden fiasco, and the measures they are taking to keep the enemy out. I will not be surprised if, at the end of the instant investigation, it will turn out that it wasn't the superior skills of the Russian hackers, but a combination of indiscretion and various security oversights that did NSA in.