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America - Land Of The Free (And Entirely Unaccountable)
As US officials admit that over 18 million Social Security numbers could have been stolen in the recent breach, as The Washington Post reports Office of Personnel Management (OPM) Director Katherine Archuleta told Senate lawmakers that she does not believe “anyone is personally responsible” for the massive hack of federal employee data and security clearance files and instead blamed the breach on old computer systems and the hackers themselves. Immediately distracting attention she added, "If there’s anyone to blame, it’s the perpetrators."
As The Washington Post reports,
“We have legacy systems that are very old,” Katherine Archuleta, director of the Office of Personnel Management, told Senate lawmakers at a hearing on the intrusion. “It’s an enterprise-wide problem. I don’t believe anyone is personally responsible.”
She then told Sen. Jerry Moran (R-Kan.), who pressed her repeatedly to take responsibility for failing to shore up the agency’s computer security, that the attackers are the ones to blame.
“If there’s anyone to blame, it’s the perpetrators,” Archuleta said. “Their concentrated, very well-funded efforts to come into our system are what we’re concerned about.”
Her comments before lawmakers on the Senate Appropriations Committee were the first public pushback against a growing chorus of lawmakers, federal employees — and today, presidential candidate Jeb Bush — who have called on Archuleta to resign following the intrusion.
She still has the support of President Obama, the White House said last week.
It's not her fault... it's not anyone's fault... it's everyone's fault!!
“So to date you don’t consider anyone at OPM to be personally responsible [for the attack]?” Moran asked her. “Or is this simply a problem with the system and no one in particular is responsible?”
Archuleta responded, “I’m as angry as you are that this has happened at OPM. But cybersecurity is the responsibility of all of us.”
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The consequence-less, wholy unaccountable new normal big overnment continues to grow.
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Another fuckan useless turd in the US gov't blaming someone else for their screwup.
So what else is new?
...She's definately in line for a promotion.
Make her the first six star general in the Dept. of Defense.
Before her appointment as Director of OPM Katherine Archuleta had previously served as National Political Director for Obama's 2012 reelection campaign.
Should have known. A crony political appointment of someone who is clearly underqualified.
Fair enough. Cut all federal salaries in half,
and we'll call it even..., until next time;)
Hah ... so naive you are of the ways of Washington. Actually, nothing is rewarded in government more generously than failure. The lady will get a 4x increase in IT budget. Lots of her minions will get promoted into cyber-security job titles.
You can tell she is pissed she got this appointment. At first she was all excited when she heard she was getting OPM.
pods
People like her wouldn't last a month in the private sector, but becasue of ass kissing and unwavering loyalty to the Emperor in Chief she gets a fat fucking salary and huge benefits while her department fails in its most basic task: security of the information it posseses on US employees. Fuuuuckkkk! When will this nightmare end? Its almost like there is a multifaceted plan to destroy the US from te inside out.
I love how they respond but don't answer the questions they're asked:
Question: "If you had actually encrypted federal employees social security numbers or their personally identifying information, would that have prevented the disclosure of their personally identifying information to hackers once they had compromised your system?"
Response: "Uhm, this is a question that has been asked of my colleagues who are experts in cybersecurity and they, uh, have informed me that indeed in this particular case the encryption would not have prevented this breach."
And Americans just eat this crap up as if it's transparency. She didn't answer the question because she knows the answer is yes and terribly bad fo rher. She instead answered a totally different question and made it sound like there was nothing she could have done.
INCOMPETENT.
At some point you will realize why the government is so horrible at accounting....
They wealthy never intended to pay you back the money they owe you...
http://galeinnes.blogspot.com/2015/06/the-war-on-poor.html
This "Data Breach" didn't happen by accident, those RFID implants are going to be the "Solution" to the "Problem" that they want you"Reacting" to, and if you go along with the program, they'll be tagging you real soon.
https://youtu.be/NU9JoFKlaZ0
"government is so horrible at accounting...."
Bullshit a thousand times over.
I know several PhD level Micro Economists who can statistically caluculate your chances on the shooting range acurately, without a calculator.
Like I have to continually repeat in order to counter the fucking tidal wave of "they're just all incompetent" effluent, bull-fucking-shit.....and like your branch buddies, they are paid to do a job and keep their mouths shut.
All you fucking sellouts here...you know, as you sell this country out for ass-crumbs, know what I am talking about.
How you sleep is the biggest mystery.
We would call her "woefully inept"
I don't think she is THAT good.
pods
Just ask the ex target CIO whose fault it was
Not to worry. Lake Mead fell below 1075 ft today for the first time - so there's that. Probably don't need to worry about DC so much. http://lakemead.water-data.com/
Sounds like we're going to need some global government and pope power to save us from drying out.
But, remember kids... California needs a hundred-billion-dollar high-speed rail that does not go to Los Angeles, or San Francisco. Nope, we do not need new wells, new damns, or new aquaducts, we need high-speed rail, so we can ship lots of water jugs at 200mph between Sacramento and Fresno. Yep, all perfectly logical and reasonable.
And no one was found personally responsible for 9/11. Head of NORAD, Mike Myers, didn't move from a meeting in the capitol that morning, and for that profile in courage, was elevated to Chairman of Joint Chiefs. So I guess this woman is good for a cabinet posiion. Like laws, accountability is for the little people.
What this lard bucket fuckwit is really saying is:
"Obviously, the US gov't meant for China to hack those 18 million (and growing) people, otherwise they wouldn't have offshored the programming for the Einstein 3 program to China!"
So the mainstream media lied when they told us that Putin and the Russian Government was responsible for this hack?
Sure and when they said that North Korea hacked sony and the US probably hacked Kaspersky recently and the US blew up Iranian centrifuges using the stuxnet virus. The biggest government on earth is also the biggest liar on earth.
"If there's any one to blame it's the perpetrators"?
You're half right Archuleta. The part you forget is that it's your responsability to defend against an attack.. Funny that same logic doesn't translate to guns with these people.
She doesn't care. SS is for the little people of which she does not participate. Now, if a hacker were to abscond with something that would affect her, maybe she would contemplate a fix and a demand for justice.
This is simply " I feel your Pain" hand wringing moment.
Miffed
Can't you see?? She's the victim here!
/s
Well, the A-hole neglected to mention that the perpetrators were the ones who offshored the coding of the Einstein 3 program to effing China!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
The Decline of the USSA Continues. Only going to get worse.
They so desperately need to divert your attentions - if you still have any left - awaaaaaaay.
All I see is an overweight POS who would dive at the first site of a Cheeseburger and fries.
Love me a cheethburgeth with frieths.
Don't mind my lithsp...
oh no.. so many internet breaches lately..
oh no.. so many shootings lately..
Hey man, King O has a CT SS number....you got a problem with that?
Another useless mouthbreather to feed into the woodchipper.
Hope it can handle blubber.
Leadership used to be held accountable. Turns out they didn't like that. Now "nobody" is accountable, for anything. If you fail, you get bailed out by the tax payer. If you succeed, you keep all the money and fire more American workers and hire more H1B non-white immigrants to replace them.
'Murica.
Yep, but such "rule of men" unleashes massive moral hazard and moral hazard can be a real motherfucker, especially once everyone realizes they can do whatever the fuck they want...
Thanks Obama! Another white girl and her baby beaten by feral black females.
http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=b3c_1435119168
Unfit to live among civilized people. Love the guy with the basketball doing the little dance as the girl is assaulted.
At least when the dollar collapses, all the ghettos do to. Then things will sort themselves out rather quickly.
pods
Can't happen soon enough. Tired of this shit.
Mother fuckers need to be put down. It's the only way.
Watch your six, my cracker brothers and sisters.
Thank God my wife is from strong Dutch-German stock - tall and thick - she would squash these two eggplants like, well...two ripe eggplants were they to come up on her and our 14 month old. Look at how they attack while the girl is holding the baby and just looks away briefly, and the dude there does nothing. (Of course).
German girls with wide hips and big tits genrally have healthy babies. Klaus Kinski agrees.
Is it unpatriotic to root for the hackers?
No, but keep talking while the drone zeros in on your location.
Is that a joke? I dunno. Obama claims the right to kill anyone in the world if in his opinion they are a threat. Or maybe you'll just be NDAA held forever without trial or lawyer. So, is that a joke?
"If there’s anyone to blame, it’s the perpetrators."
Land of the farce
Nobody is personally responsible. Nevertheless, with no supporting evidence, we've narrowed down the list of people to blame to a little over a billion individuals.
...and by all of us, I mean nobody in particular.
BWAWAHAHAAWAWAHAHA!
And I still encounter idiots who wonder out loud what difference there could possibly be between running a business and running a government.
How convenient...next is the typical liberal argument of "We need more money..."
Yea. Because they're incompetent and the consequences of their stupidity are NIL.
So, the encryption would "not have prevented the breach," but it would have prevented access to the confidential information? Isn't that why the breach was bad?!
Low value, high ambition moron.
It really doesn't matter either way since the political class wants to define just about anything as a "hack" in order to expand the cyber police state. We are seeing this over and over in the media as to make sure that a headline grabbing "hack" makes news daily even if someone physically walked out of somewhere with a computer in their hands. Guessing that someone's password is password is NOT a hack. This is not computer science and rather seems to be following climate science into the rathole.
......as Hilary said "Get over it"
LMFAO!!!! Ask John Corzine about accountability in America you stupid fuck.
She a fucking elementary school teacher. No wait, she's a life long democrat politically connected former community organizing female hispanic kindergarden teacher so she's qualified nowadays.
Stop the planet - I want off.
no es mi culpa
Starting her career as an educator, Archuleta taught 5-year-olds at Del Pueblo elementary school in Denver. In 1972, Archuleta met pony-tailed activist attorney Federico Peña and joined his civil rights case demanding the government provide quality public education for Spanish-speaking students.
Saw this few days ago:
http://www.businessinsider.com/the-us-agency-plundered-by-chinese-hacker...
OPM Outsourced IT Work with root level access to Chinese and an Argentinian. 14 Million Records.
http://www.cnn.com/2015/06/22/politics/opm-hack-18-milliion/
http://arstechnica.com/security/2015/06/epic-fail-how-opm-hackers-tapped...
"The two systems breached were the Electronic Official Personnel Folder (eOPF) system, an entity hosted for OPM at the Department of the Interior's shared service data center, and the central database behind "EPIC," the suite of software used by OPM's Federal Investigative Service in order to collect data for government employee and contractor background investigations."
"The result has been a patchwork IT systems and security, and the Office of the CIO at OPM has a direct hand in fewer and fewer projects. Of the 47 major IT systems at OPM, 22 of them are currently run by contractors."
"As Ars has reported, those problems were not just found at OPM itself. Contractors working for the agency may have introduced some unique security issues of their own, including employing Chinese nationals—some working from overseas—as part of subcontracting teams. Allegedly, that project was an implementation of SAP's SuccessFactors software, undertaken by a systems integrator for OPM and affiliated agencies, and included access to employee personnel data for the Department of Energy, the Transportation Security Agency, and others. SuccessFactors is used as part of a human resources system called the Talent Management System (TMS), "an integrated learning management and performance management system based on the industry leading SAP/Plateau/Success Factors software" hosted for multiple agencies by a data center at the Department of the Interior. SAP could not provide information about the program, the integrator, or even confirm that Interior or OPM were a customer without OPM authorization."
Wonder what the next promotion will be?
This juicy government resume booster could get her into the Ministry of I-dunno.
Katherine Archuleta...anagram for "Elect Thinker Aura...Ha!"
Don't you mouth-breathing, trailer park dwelling, NASCAR fans know we have a flag to ban???
they lost their own shit, which cracks me up in a way.
I personally believe that all these hacks into the federal govenment's computers are fiction. What better way for any govenment agency to receive extra funds during the coming budget negotiations than to cry wolf and to especially blame China or Russia. The tip off was when she blamed the legacy systems. Old computers and networks just don't cut it any more. We need more money to upgrade! You have to give them credit. It does create a lot of press coverage and they will get want they want!!!
Yeah. Laws could be a lot of trouble at this point.
Katherine is so lackadaisical that it occurs to me that there was no breach. How would we know if it even happened? Where are the crisis actors for Pete's sake???
I wonder how she'd react to a hair in her chicken salad.
You've hit the nail on the head with this one, Tyler. NO ONE in government is responsible for anything,....and Brownie you're doing a helluva job!
They are all too busy clickbaiting listicles of hot chicks.
Behold, the face of fucktard
I'm sorry, they outsourced this work to Chinese contractors (subs, whatever), working overseas no less? I picture an old friend of mine complaining about his students in the stats class he took - it's ok if they're stupid, but they're stupid AND lazy - what do they expect to happen? No one thought that the people installing updates, given admin rights, were not vetted? Even if that's not the source of the leak, it deserves to be.
Where's the M1, soldier? The guards took it out to get washed, sir. (loose "Stripes" quote)
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Oh, give the old broad a break. Nothing digital is secure. Nothing.
We only hear about breaches that can't be kept quiet. Just for instance, we never hear about NSA or CIA security breaches, so do you suppose that there haven't been any?
Director Katherine Archuleta, still keeps her overpaid salary and Penison though, The US Gov't is 100% Fucdup.
Our massive government and lots of printed money have made Americans into a nation of scam-artists and confidence men.
OK Conspiracy Theory time:
The hack was more than SSN's.
If you have a security clearance, then, the results of ALL the data and hearsay they got while doing the investigation, was also in the hack. That is, your full name, your address, is the least of it; but all kinds of compromisable information - that you cheated on your wife during your first marriage ; that your grandpa was a cross-dresser who had bathroom sex with Walter Mitty, etc. What a great way to keep all those guys who are keepers of the secrets, in line! After all if the Chinese have it, then Hillary! has it also, yes?
Conpiracy theory or conspiracy fact?
You bet the government would flush it's own employees and mercenaries down the drain by letting the Rolodex get stolen.
Eugene McCarthy coined an apt term: "No Fault Government".
Out here in the dreaded private sector, some are cursed by Zero Defect managers/management.
But in the USG, the concept of Zero Defects is crazy talk. So when they get requirements that demand actual zero defects (like information assurance, privacy, billing amounts, network security) the results are predictable. USG needs to stay away from activities that demand way way more than they could ever deliver.
This woman will sit in her exec office totally disgracednd and hated in preference to moving on, straightening herself out and starting over.
Meanwhile, there's a payday coming for all the unemployed COBOL programmers.
We live in a country WROL (on crack!)
"If there’s anyone to blame, it’s the perpetrators."
If a private firm had let this happen--that was not connected to Zion like Corzine--they'd have raked the firm, and principles, over the coals, and turned them upside down and shaken vigorously for loot--"fines."
But, hey, the connected and psychopathic ones can't be held responsible, because, well, they have the important business of treason and tyranny to occupy their time.
Liberty is a demand. Tyranny is submission.
Guillotine list gets longer...
So we get the same response as for 9/11....anyone see a apttern?