Late in the article, CNN finally acknowledged the obvious irony of Friday’s story headlined, “Top US cybersecurity agency hacked and forced to take some systems offline .” Yep. Hacked was DHS’s brand-new CISA, the same Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency that is in charge of misinformation. It’s also in charge of protecting our public and private secrets.
CISA head Jen Easterly said it is “really, really dangerous if people get to pick their own facts.” Super dangerous.
There’s not much anybody can say about the hack. Because they aren’t providing any facts. The government’s “pro-truth,” anti-misinformation security agency opted instead for something, well, short of full transparency:
CNN cited an anonymous agency source who said one of the hacked systems was the “Chemical Security Assessment Tool (CSAT), which houses private sector chemical security plans.” Like … security plans that terrorists could use? Will the chemical plants now be required to completely overhaul their leaked security plans?
CNN asked CISA to confirm whether that anonymous claim was true, and the agency “declined to confirm or deny” the facts.
Nothing stops misinformation better than refusing to say what actually happened, and leaving us all speculating about what the facts really are. Nice job, CISA.
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