Infosec pros tell Trump to quit bullying Chris Krebs – it's undermining security
The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) and numerous infosec leaders are lobbying US President Donald Trump to drop his enduring investigation into Chris Krebs, claiming that targeting the former CISA boss amounts to bullying.
The open letter, co-signed by the industry bigwigs, compares the campaign against Krebs and, by extension, his most recent employer, cybersec biz SentinelOne, to Trump’s ongoing grudge against law firms associated with critics of the president.
But in addition to the suggestion of bullying, the cyber pros argue the implications of the attack on Krebs are more far-reaching – and that to undermine the crucial work of securing government IT threatens the practice of good-faith cyber defense.
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