The new order sweeps away decades of existing U.S. cybersecurity policy prohibiting private companies from conducting ‘hack back’ attacks or offensive cyber operations.
Archived version: https://archive.is/20260813215558/https://techcrunch.com/2026/08/13/in-a-first-us-will-allow-some-private-firms-to-carry-out-cyberattacks/
This will be be a fascinating period for future historians to study, providing there’s time for people to do that between hunting for mutant gilas and hiding from ruinstorms.
Future historians won’t be able to figure out squat, not since websites turn over fast and data gets lost in remodels.
The only thing that may be reliable is the trash, the physical trash. And all they can say about that is we were remodeling like we had the money.