Re:Russian government hackers penetrated DNC, stole oppositi...
by kbenson on Tuesday June 14, 2016 @12:44PM
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> What, you think the people that build the software and IT environments for campaigns ... are the creme de la creme of software security talent?
No, but I've always considered the competence of the IT people to likely fluctuate wildly from person to person, as I assumed many were politically motivated and donating at least some of their expected compensation level. I think the bigger problem would be in an organization with lots of volunteers, at least at the lower levels, and that gets at least partially rebuilt every few years, operational security is probably very hard to enforce for multiple reasons.
No, but I've always considered the competence of the IT people to likely fluctuate wildly from person to person, as I assumed many were politically motivated and donating at least some of their expected compensation level. I think the bigger problem would be in an organization with lots of volunteers, at least at the lower levels, and that gets at least partially rebuilt every few years, operational security is probably very hard to enforce for multiple reasons.