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.
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