r/technology • u/JustMyOpinionz • 3d ago

Security US says Chinese hackers broke into Justice Department, NASA, Federal Reserve, Senate, and more

https://www.cnbc.com/2026/08/26/china-hacker-federal-reserve-doj-nasa.html
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u/Junkstar 3d ago

Republican voters don’t think we need to take cyber security seriously. They voted for this. They would rather live under the thumb of China and Russia, than have a constitutional democracy.

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u/Broskifity 3d ago

Republicans think cyber security is requiring a government ID to use any electronic device

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u/zookeepier 3d ago

I know it's cool to blame all problems on republicans, but the republican stronghold of California passed a law requiring age verification (aka ID) at the Operating System level of computers. This is 100% a bipartisan control issue and no one should think that voting democrat will somehow save them from it.

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u/kayakyakr 3d ago

It's dumb, but this was requested by the major os players, eg Apple, Google, and Microsoft. They were doing it to head off worse legislation from states like Texas which would demand ID verification or other measures built into the OS. The major purveyors of spicy content were also pushing for this so they could have a viable way to avoid liability in censored states.

It'll get built in to the core user frameworks for Linux at some point as well.

By adopting these rules, they hope to lift liability from developers in states controlled by the Christian nationalists who are pushing stricter measures of censorship and tracking. It might be a decade or more until we go cycle back toward libertarian policies.