Trump Quietly Throws Out Biden's Cyber Policies (axios.com)
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- News link: https://it.slashdot.org/story/25/06/10/2044217/trump-quietly-throws-out-bidens-cyber-policies
- Source link: https://www.axios.com/2025/06/10/trump-executive-order-cybersecurity-biden
> President Trump quietly took a red pen to much of the Biden administration's cyber legacy in a little-noticed move late Friday. Under an [1]executive order signed just before the weekend, Trump is [2]tossing out some of the major touchstones of Biden's cyber policy legacy -- while keeping a few others. The order preserves efforts around post-quantum cryptography, advanced encryption standards, and border gateway protocol security, along with the Cyber Trust Mark program -- an [3]Energy Star-type labeling initiative for consumer smart devices. But hallmark programs tied to software bills of materials, zero-trust implementation, and space contractor cybersecurity requirements have been either rescinded or left in limbo. The new executive order amends both the Biden cyber executive order signed in January and an Obama administration order.
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> Each of the following Biden-era programs is now out the door or significantly rolled back:
> - A broad requirement for federal software vendors to provide a software bill of materials - essentially an ingredient list of code components - is gone.
> - Biden-era efforts to encourage federal agencies to accept digital identity documents and help states develop mobile driver's licenses were revoked.
> - Several AI cybersecurity research mandates, including those focused on AI-generated code security and AI-driven patch management pilots, have been scrapped or deprioritized.
> - The requirement that software contractors formally attest they followed secure development practices - and submit those attestations to a federal repository - has been cut. Instead, the National Institute of Standards and Technology will now coordinate a new industry consortium to review software security guidelines.
[1] https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/06/sustaining-select-efforts-to-strengthen-the-nations-cybersecurity-and-amending-executive-order-13694-and-executive-order-14144/
[2] https://www.axios.com/2025/06/10/trump-executive-order-cybersecurity-biden
[3] https://hardware.slashdot.org/story/25/05/06/2111247/trump-admin-plans-to-shut-down-the-energy-star-program
Don't forget Starlink (Score:5, Interesting)
Without prior approval, [1]Starlink was installed [thedailybeast.com] on the roof of the [2]Eisenhower Executive Office Building [pcmag.com] and was (is still?) used to send untold amounts of highly sensitive government data over an insecure connection. Needless to say, [3]the Secret Service [yahoo.com], among others, was flabbergasted that basic security precautions were not taken to secure the link, even after DOGE was told how insecure the system is.
Another cyber policy ignored. Who knows how much sensitive data is now in the hands of the Russian assets handlers?
[1] https://www.thedailybeast.com/elon-musks-doge-goons-surreptitiously-transmitted-reams-of-white-house-data/
[2] https://www.pcmag.com/news/report-trump-administration-ignored-advice-on-starlink-installation-at
[3] https://www.yahoo.com/news/elon-musk-starlink-installed-white-113116717.html
Re: Don't forget Starlink (Score:2)
Surely whoever bills for Trump's services knows exactly what has been sent so far. Trump doesn't "work" for free.
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> ...used to send untold amounts of highly sensitive government data over an insecure connection
to Russia, of course.
The "insecure" part is a feature, not a bug.
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Presumably the people who take American security seriously and have taken an oath to the constitution (which is not the same as an oath to Donald Trump even if he does not know that) understand that any intel he gets is immediately presumed to be compromised and in FSB hands and try their best to minimize the damage. They have probably had unofficial protocols specifically for Manchurian Candidates for generations.
Say what? (Score:1)
Trump quietly does something? Check him for fever. On second thought, ignore it, go have a Jamba Juice.
Re: Say what? (Score:1)
The press was distracted by the protests - they will likely accuse Trump of orchestrating ICE raids in LA to distract the press on Friday!
Reminds me of one of my favorite Phil Hartman sketches on SNL - [1]Reagan and the Girl Scout (?) [youtube.com]
[1] https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=b5wfPlgKFh8&pp=0gcJCdgAo7VqN5tD
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You got anything besides mindless propaganda?
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Even were it true, has this clown (the GP) seen the current guy?
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> You got anything besides mindless propaganda?
I don't believe it's propaganda, but it's not surprising that you leap to the least gracious interpretation.
> Biden had no policies. Biden was a zombie. His handlers and the autopen ran the Whitehouse.
A worldview that I can understand. Biden was barely functioning, which is a form of being compromised since he lost large amounts of time. Trump is eerily similar, where I am sure he is running things under various blackmailed conditions *at best* paired wit
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Well everything is more expensive six months in, inflation is up, unemployment is up, job prospects are down, the cabinet is full of unqualified DEI hires, but at least the libs have it shitty too!
Re:Biden's Cyber Policies? (Score:5, Insightful)
It's almost funny how people get fixated on this autopen thing. Which trump himself has used too. It works with a sharpy just as well as a pen. Very creative (and pernicious) reasoning by certain people about this.
I've always maintained that the best politician, the best leader, does as little as possible. Biden's policies were simply those of maintaining the stable political status quo which, among other things, granted freedom and prosperity up til now, which you enjoy. Boggles my mind how many want to burn it all down.
It's also shocking to me how many people in the US are fine with a king and wouldn't care if they never voted again (or just did a symbolic vote for the king every four years which is how many look at elections). American Kings have been in the making for decades, the foundation laid by both parties. But one party has run with it beyond anything I have ever seen. Now with the king, life is okay for you so long as you fall in line with the king and happen to agree with his opinions. But should you ever differ from him (or his friends) on anything, keep your head down. Yes I do have some Russian friends and they just try to do their thing and not attract attention. Not a life I want.
The thing about freedom is that the same freedom that allows you to do and say what you want to do also allows people to do things you strongly, vehemently, disagree with. Would you fight in a war for your country to ensure people you disagree with get their say in government and society? My family members who fought in WWII did.
As with all things, we don't know what he have until it's gone. That's why it's important to speak up on these things.
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You mean this guy who can't even ascend stairs?
[1]https://www.usatoday.com/story... [usatoday.com]
[1] https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2025/06/09/trump-air-force-one-stumble/84111744007
Re:Autopen (Score:5, Informative)
Trump admitted to using the autopen [1]https://www.msnbc.com/morning-... [msnbc.com]
[1] https://www.msnbc.com/morning-joe/watch/trump-admits-to-using-autopen-after-declaring-biden-s-pardons-void-due-to-autopen-234691653807
No BoM? Like Shell4j never happened... (Score:2)
The Trump administration continues to demonstrate it has no clue. Not really a surprise.
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I'm not sure that's true. I won't claim there's some masterful plan being enacted as so many of his supporters claim. But he certainly knows what he's doing. It's his supporters in the GOP who may not have a clue and when they realize it, it will be too late. He's a master deceiver.
Keep him away from the NIST (Score:2)
Now that Trump knows it exists, while he assign another know-nothing to destroy it? "What do you mean the mile is actually based on the length of a meter? Change that immediately!" The mile shall hence forth be based on the length of his male member times on an appropriate multiplier. Something like 63,360
Trump is throwing out migrants too (Score:4, Insightful)
When you are paying big bucks for fresh fruit & vegetables because the price went up 4X then you will wished the government didn't deport all the Latinos, the migrant farm workers are why fruit & vegetables are affordable
I'm shocked! /sarc (Score:4, Funny)
Except for the digital identity thing, the scrapped policies listed in TFS would have cost companies money, and or engendered liability, in the name of protecting citizens. Given the current administration's stated priorities and ongoing actions, axing these policies was entirely consistent with their stroke-the-rich-and-screw-the-poor agenda.
Re:Honestly this is small potatoes (Score:4, Insightful)
A good rule of thumb is to be careful underestimating an apparently inconsequential political action on the heels of an earth-shattering affair.
Some nonzero percentage of the time, the seemingly inconsequential action was the cleverly disguised end game all along.
Re:Honestly this is small potatoes (Score:5, Insightful)
In this case, every action he's taken supports only one end goal: Doing as much damage as possible to the United States and Ukraine, up to and including the destruction of both if possible. Now who 1) would want to make that happen, 2) controls Trump's purse strings because they're the only ones who will bank with him, and 3) has a lot of embarrassing intelligence on him?
Re: Honestly this is small potatoes (Score:1)
TDS
Re:Honestly this is small potatoes (Score:5, Insightful)
If those little protests don't amount to much why do they need to send in the military?
Re:Honestly this is small potatoes (Score:5, Insightful)
You're actually okay with the military deploying on US soil? This sort of thing has been illegal for years, and for good reason. Using the military against people (most of which are citizens) in your own country is the sort of thing that dictators do. That's why people are speaking out against this. The fact you are not concerned about this is, well concerning. What happens when a democrat becomes president king and starts to use the military against people you support? Or do you think that your guy really will be king for another few terms? That's why I and many others are concerned and speaking out while we can.
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> You're actually okay with the military deploying on US soil?...
Please don't feed the trolls! Even the ones who may not realize that they're trolling...
Re:Honestly this is small potatoes (Score:4, Insightful)
Yet I've spoken with quite a few normal (and relatively sane) people who fully support what Trump is doing in general, and this military action specifically. They aren't trolls. They aren't wackos. They see themselves as average Americans. I just hope to get some to ask questions and do some serious thinking.
Re: Honestly this is small potatoes (Score:3)
They are in a cult. You cannot expect them to do some serious thinking.
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I don't know where you got the idea that it was unlawful to use the military to put down cases of riot, insurrection or other forms of civil disorder, but it's part of the civil government's responsibility to retain order, including calling on the military for assistance if needed.
Tell me, if you were in charge of New York City when the [1]New York City Draft Riots [wikipedia.org] broke out in July 1863, what would you have done? Would you have called for military assistance, and if not, why not?
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York_City_draft_riots
Re:Honestly this is small potatoes (Score:5, Insightful)
I don't know where you got the idea that it was unlawful to use the military
Probably from the [1]Posse Comitatus Act [wikipedia.org] of 1878 (note that your example is from 1863).
They could have gotten some very accurate info from the lawsuit filed by the state of California, which lays all of the laws that Trump completely bypassed to send troops in:
[2]https://www.reuters.com/world/... [reuters.com]
Also, get fucking real. The only place this is actually a "riot" is on Fox News and its friends. What's been happening in LA is on a smaller scale than disturbances after various sports victories.
This is Reichstag-fire-level bullshit, and you shouldn't join in on it.
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posse_Comitatus_Act
[2] https://www.reuters.com/world/us/does-us-law-allow-trump-send-troops-quell-protests-2025-06-08/
Re: Honestly this is small potatoes (Score:2)
As an outsider, I thought it was upto the state government to ask for help, 4 years ago trump even said so.
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> Tell me, if you were in charge of New York City...
Maybe you should look up the laws regarding *who* is allowed to legally call in the National Guard. If you were in charge of New York City and called in the National Guard that would be perfectly fine. If on the other hand you were the president of the USA and sent in the National Guard to the explicit protest of the Governor of the state, that is unlawful.
The distinction is incredibly important as it is one of the checks and balances we have for defending democratic institutions. Now combine the deployment
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> The Blacks and other minorities are as sick of illegal immigration as anyone, and they are happy to see something change, so you have no disposable foot soldiers to burn stuff on your behalf.
> You fucked your useful idiots so bad they've turned on you.
Nice to know you speak for "the blacks" and other minorities. Did they give you an honorary N-word pass?
Re:Honestly this is small potatoes (Score:5, Insightful)
Boiling the frog.
One step on the path to normalizing martial law in the USA.
They don't need to send in the military (Score:4, Insightful)
They want to. The goal here is to suspend habeas corpus. So far the project 2025 goons there are actually running the country right now have been unsuccessful doing that.
But if they can make enough trouble the old farts who run this country will get so scared they will cheerfully hand over their civil rights.
Re:Honestly this is small potatoes (Score:5, Insightful)
Maybe the protesters should ransack the Capitol building, assault its security personnel and threaten to murder elected offcials then. Surely they would get a presidential pardon anyway, right ? Right ?
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Please, call them friendly tourists. That's what Andrew Clyde said even after we see him in a photo screaming in terror behind a plainclothes security detail pointing a pistol. [1]https://www.yahoo.com/news/rep... [yahoo.com]
[1] https://www.yahoo.com/news/republican-compared-capitol-rioters-tourists-174512032.html?guccounter=1
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The protestors were called insurrectionists by the president. Clearly they will all be pardoned because that's the norm now.
Re: Honestly this is small potatoes (Score:2)
So multiple vehicles on fire isn't that important?
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Only Trump's organized crime and insider trading friends are allowed to commit fraud, you silly boy.
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Cost to the gov. of la Presidenta "adventure" in LA with Nat. Guard: $134 Million (https://www.politico.com/news/2025/06/10/troops-deployed-to-la-will-cost-134m-pentagon-official-says-00396632)
It was never about "illegal" migrants. It is about that asshole strutting around like Napoleon in panties declaring himself The Biggest Dick.
Regarding his order, all we need do is look for the trail of breadcrumbs back to his pocket. The alleged administration is running a collection of bunko scams. And now with his s