Senator Ron Wyden (D-OR) is hammering a congressional office for its lax cyber protection of servers holding complaints of sexual harassment on Capitol Hill.
Until Wyden pressed the issue with the congressional Office of Compliance in late February 2018, the Washington Post reports, the information was stored by an outside contractor on an insecure server. Now, the servers are reportedly offline in a congressional facility.
According to the Post, Wyden wrote a scathing letter to the office’s Deputy Executive Director Paula Sumberg. “The OOC’s astonishingly lax security measures provide the means for hostile actors to access, modify, delete, or disseminate embarrassing and compromising information about legislative branch staff who have reported incidents of sexual harassment,” the Senator wrote.
He asserted his shock that the office would “watch as other federal government institutions were systematically targeted by foreign intelligence agencies and decide that it did not need to take even the most rudimentary steps to protect itself and the sensitive data which has been entrusted to it.”
How many of these cases involved Dotard?
Enquirer minds will never let you know.
Whhaaaatttt??? I thought it was only Crooked Hillary that had lax security…everyone ELSE woulda coulda shoulda…at least those sanctimonious 'wads that reside in Congress (and on the campaign trail) want us to believe this…
Of course, if the information accidentally goes missing, that makes it much easier to settle a case on favorable terms. They’re just lucky people weren’t inserting kompromat onto the system.
Yeah, I’m sure what he’s really worried about is complainants’ privacy and not that of his colleagues.
(Just because he is on my side of the political divide doesn’t mean I trust him on this issue.)
It occurs to me, if incredibly belatedly, that we’ve all heard for years that we’re neglecting the privacy and security of our digital devices and the trustworthiness of our information in a way that’s not cool in a networked world. And man, didn’t it blow up in our faces? None of this Trump craziness would have been possible without it.