I think technologies are hysterical about how China's going to beat us and then not hysterical enough about the threats. I think we need to have a much more reasoned debate about that. This would be a really good opportunity for us to actually have a conversation with China. It's like we've become such a short-term society. Part of that is just the technology itself. But I'm reading this great book by a classmate of mine from Oxford called The Good Ancestor. Essentially, the argument is we need to look at what is going to be inherited by seven generations from now. Stop thinking about the next week, the next quarter, the next election. We need to do it or else
Donald Trump signed the Cybersecurity & Infrastructure Security Agency into existence in 2018 with the mandate to protect America’s infrastructure from threats digital and physical. Trump also made CISA a household name when he fired the department’s head in 2020 for noting that, no, the election was not stolen. Today, we hear from Jen Easterly, the woman who now runs CISA and has the job of preventing another SolarWinds or Colonial Pipeline attack as well as preventing foreign and domestic attacks in an election environment that has become highly politicized. Her goal? Make elections boring again.
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