Cyber War's Pearl Harbor, 2015

While the Kenyan and his useful idiots in the White House assure us that, well, digital information on the Internet just isn't, well, safe, the importance of last week's presumed Chinese hacking of the Office of Personnel Management is a testament to understatement.  Let's ponder that a bit.  Personnel records of every single United States government employee, as well as perhaps a million or so former employees, are now in the hands of the Chinese.  These records include pre-employment background checks and data on employees' family and friends, as well.   Yet the White House maintains that this is not news, and that this kind of sensitive information cannot be kept safe in this digital age because of the evolving nature of protecting digital information? So it would seem, especially from this bunch of saboteurs.  The Kenyan claims his team found out about this hack right away, but that's yet another bold faced lie. It  it was “actually discovered during a mid-April sales demonstration at OPM by a Virginia company called CyTech Services, which has a networks forensics platform called CyFIR.” according to a report from the Wall Street Journal.  Yep, it took a private company - during a sales demonstration, no less - to discover the malware that was embedded in the OPM's website.  I bet CyTech closed that sale!  But wait, there's more.  Now that the Chi-Coms know each and every US government employee, the Chinese invaders pulled off yet a second massive military and intelligence security breach that may have given them access to “sensitive background information submitted by intelligence and military personnel for security clearances,” according to an AP report.  What the Chinese now have is a database containing Standard Form 86, which contains a great deal of in-depth personal data about the applicants for security clearances. As described by the AP, these forms discuss “mental illnesses, drug and alcohol use, past arrests and bankruptcies,” as well as important personal data, such as Social Security Numbers.  So that means anyone who has or seeks security clearance for employment as military or intelligence operatives is now "blown" by Chinese intelligence.  Peachy.

So the trend continues:  this administration simply cannot create a secure, functioning website, nor can it secure sensitive data under its responsibility.  Or, perhaps it can, it just doesn't want to do so for so many reasons.  Nevertheless, the damage is done.  Think ObamaCare, as well as the 1,246 other government security areas that have been breached.  So the excuse for all this exposure is that, well, we just can't guard everything, according to White House spokesman Josh less-than-Earnest.  Are you kidding me?  Giant private companies exchange sensitive data all day long with thousands - make that millions - of users, and nary a breach occurs.  Wall street stock trading sites like eTrade and Scottrade, and online banking and payment intermediaries like PayPal and Visa do business 24/7.  But the United States government can't get its digital poop in a group?  No chance. I can't be deluded for one minute into thinking this administration is simply incompetent; I think they're anything but.  I do think, however, that they have a not-so-hidden agenda, and they've got just seventeen more months to complete it.