Foreign Hacking Is Good for US Security

Businesses have long known that cyber security is best achieved by hiring the hackers themselves.  The same is true for the federal government, as described in the news story “How a teen hacker sentenced to 45-years in prison became a CIA agent… and then a multimillionaire.”  James Kosta “was allowed to join the Navy at 18 as intelligence analyst,” and at “20 he joined the CIA tracking funds of warlords in Africa and Middle East.”

     Like the American public, the military and government and business sectors have made themselves dependent on the computer pied piper.  Hacking is widespread in the highest levels of American culture, including the DNC, while anti-hacking consultants haven’t been equal to the ample taxpayer and consumer dollars they’ve received. With companies like Apple and Microsoft, the US has exported the intoxication of hardware and software throughout the globe.  The teen subculture of can do users and gamers is legendary, and not at all dependent on what they may have picked up in college.  They’re everywhere, able to fix problems and penetrate intimidating technical challenges.  No further credentials needed.

     Hackers from foreign countries—namely China, Korea, and Russia—should be welcomed as well.  They reveal where the weaknesses are in an otherwise “secure” system.  Military lives may be at stake and the financial well-being of millions.  Good writers build their arguments around the best attacks from those who disagree.  Security must be tested, and weaknesses acknowledged.

     Vladimir Putin certainly has no time to fool around with US elections, though it is praiseworthy that he joins all other foreign leaders in hoping that this or that candidate gets elected.  Peace and progress depend on political harmony and cooperation.  Better to make Russia a friend than an enemy.

     A more dangerous enemy is journalism within a country that attempts to rig an election with fake and biased news masquerading as no-spin reporting.  It is no secret that freedom of the press in the US has been hijacked by elite liberals, hiring pretty faces to read monitors in honey-like modulated voices, which most of the public accepts at face value.

    It’s not just that the CIA, FBI, and US Supreme Court have been politicized and purged toward the left in recent years.  The anti-Trump news bias was so blatant during the election that more and more viewers see the Putin hacking story as just more of the same–which it is–along with charges of voter fraud, and the like.  Anything to avoid owning up to the cultural excesses of a Democratic Party that pushed Trump to electoral victory.  You already know what they are.  So does Vladimir Putin.