{"id":16601,"date":"2017-01-13T12:10:11","date_gmt":"2017-01-13T18:10:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=16601"},"modified":"2017-01-13T12:24:31","modified_gmt":"2017-01-13T18:24:31","slug":"rudy-giuliani-is-an-absurd-choice-to-defend-the-us-from-hackers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=16601","title":{"rendered":"Rudy Giuliani is an absurd choice to defend the US from hackers"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>While it\u2019s amusing to make fun of Giuliani, hiring people with little or no bona fide security experience to head up cybersecurity practices in government is sadly a tried and true pastime in Washington. Instead of tapping actual computer security experts, politicians in many cases continue to put their friends or people they know in charge of a monumental problem that requires expertise beyond having many political connections or relationships with donors.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Source: <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/commentisfree\/2017\/jan\/13\/rudy-giulianis-not-fit-to-protect-the-us-from-hackers\">Rudy Giuliani is an absurd choice to defend the US from hackers | Trevor Timm | Opinion | The Guardian<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p>From:\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theregister.co.uk\/2017\/01\/13\/giuliani_joomla_outdated_site\/\">Trump&#8217;s cyber-guru Giuliani runs ancient &#8216;easily hackable website&#8217;<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;You can probably break into Giuliani&#8217;s server,&#8221; <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.erratasec.com\/2017\/01\/about-that-giuliani-website.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">said<\/a> Robert Graham of Errata Security. &#8220;I know this because other FreeBSD servers in the same data center have already been broken into, tagged by hackers, or are now serving viruses.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;But that doesn&#8217;t matter. There&#8217;s nothing on Giuliani&#8217;s server worth hacking.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While it\u2019s amusing to make fun of Giuliani, hiring people with little or no bona fide security experience to head up cybersecurity practices in government is sadly a tried and true pastime in Washington. Instead of tapping actual computer security &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=16601\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1121],"tags":[733,1087,101],"class_list":["post-16601","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-current-events","tag-cyberwar","tag-government-contracts","tag-security"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16601","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16601"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16601\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16604,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16601\/revisions\/16604"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16601"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16601"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16601"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}