Here, in its entirety, is Donald Trump’s statement, which he made after meeting with the intelligence community at Trump Towers:
“I had a constructive meeting and conversation with the leaders of the Intelligence Community this afternoon. I have tremendous respect for the work and service done by the men and women of this community to our great nation.
“While Russia, China, other countries, outside groups and people are consistently trying to break through the cyber infrastructure of our governmental institutions, businesses and organizations including the Democrat National Committee, there was absolutely no effect on the outcome of the election including the fact that there was no tampering whatsoever with voting machines. There were attempts to hack the Republican National Committee, but the RNC had strong hacking defenses and the hackers were unsuccessful.
“Whether it is our government, organizations, associations or businesses we need to aggressively combat and stop cyberattacks. I will appoint a team to give me a plan within 90 days of taking office. The methods, tools and tactics we use to keep America safe should not be a public discussion that will benefit those who seek to do us harm. Two weeks from today I will take the oath of office and America’s safety and security will be my number one priority.”
Well said.
How easy was it to hack the Democrats? Well, it has been reported that John Podesta’s password* – which is supposed to be a line of defense to prevent hacking, was the extraordinarily difficult to figure out…
…”password”.*
Yep, that’s it. His password was “password”*. And that was supposed to leave professional hackers in the dust.
I wonder what the password of Hillary Clinton’s personal server was during her four years as Secretary of State. “Hillary”?
I would hope it is no surprise that Russia – and Iran and China and Israel and Cuba and Canada and Mexico and France and India and every other country with any computer capabilities at all – would ongoingly be trying to hack into our systems to find out what is really going on.
Making it easy for them to do so, and then whining that it happened, may wow ’em at the DNC and in the New York Times. But I would like to think that a great many of the rest of us just shake our heads in disgust.
How about just making your systems less easy to hack. And then shutting up?
Thanks.
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* It has since been reported that his password was not “password”, but the marginally more difficult-to-hack “Runner4567”. Regardless, the fact that Russia – and other countries, both friend and foe – are always looking to spy on each other, remain the same.
