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Where the candidates stand on cyber issues
It's a little difficult to nail down the US presidential candidates on cybersecurity. That's probably because none of the candidates actually has a cybersecurity plan. What little the candidates have said about cybersecurity is as bizarre as the entire reality-TV election process spectacle itself. They each think cybersecurity means one, or possibly two, things. Bernie Sanders is obsessed with the NSA. Donald Trump said that Edward Snowden should be executed and wants to hack-attack China. Hillary Clinton just seems unsure about what exactly she should say.
America accuses Iran of hacking the dam, cyber-squirrels rejoice
As cyber-geddon stories go, Middle Eastern countries hacking into US dams or power grids and making stuff go haywire sounds like the plot for a not-so-subtly racist Hollywood scare flick. But that's the story we got when news outlets, citing unnamed sources, recently reported the Obama administration would be calling out Iranian hackers as the culprits behind a malicious 2013 breach at a New York dam.
