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Trump Quietly Throws Out Biden's Cyber Policies (axios.com) 106

Posted by BeauHD from the decentralized-approaches dept.
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Axios: 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 executive order signed just before the weekend, Trump is 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 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bills of materials, zero-trust implementation, and space contractor cybersecurity requirements have been either rescinded or left in limbo.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.

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.

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  • Compared to the shit he's doing in LA right now.

    Really it just looks like a bunch of government oversight that would have been used to stop waste and fraud is being eliminated. Funny that after all that hemming and hawing about waste and fraud but come on, we only knew this was going to happen.

    • Re:Honestly this is small potatoes (Score:5, Insightful)

      by rmdingler ( 1955220 ) on Tuesday June 10, 2025 @08:10PM (#65441313) Journal

      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)

        by drinkypoo ( 153816 ) <drink@hyperlogos.org> on Tuesday June 10, 2025 @08:20PM (#65441339) Homepage Journal

        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: (Score:3)

          by jd ( 1658 )

          I would have to agree. There is no obvious end-goal of developing an America that is favourable to the global economy, to Americans, or even to himself, unless we assume that he meant what he said about ending elections and becoming a national dictator. The actions favour destabilisation, fragmentation, and the furthering of the goals of anyone with the power to become a global dictator.

          Exactly who is pulling the strings is, I think, not quite so important. The Chechen leader has made it clear he sees himse

        • Re:Honestly this is small potatoes (Score:5, Insightful)

          by mjwx ( 966435 ) on Wednesday June 11, 2025 @08:18AM (#65442081)

          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?

          I think you're crediting Trump with too much intelligence. If anything, as an outside observer Trumps actions look far to random and capricious to be a part of any kind of master plan. Project 2025 (which the sanewashers tried to convince us didn't exist) is another story, fortunately that is being harmed by Trumps capriciousness as well.

          Trump himself is driven by a need for money, the need to stay out of jail and the need to have his fragile ego stroked. As such he doesn't consider the consequences of his actions or how they could end up gong horribly wrong. Hence he is continually surprised that things do go wrong and always on the lookout for someone else to blame.

          Any destruction of the US, which seems to be a distinct possibility at this juncture, is an entirely unintended consequence... that law loves kicking the unsuspecting in the arse and Trump should be familiar with it but somehow has always managed to insulate himself from the consequences of his mistakes.

          • I think Humpty Trumpty is of approximately average intelligence, and his superpower is being unburdened by approximately zero morals from any source which don't involve self-promotion. One can only imagine he received that mindset directly from his father, who was famously much the same person that he is, but unempowered by television due to some quite infamously memed shortcomings in the charisma department.

            But I do not agree that his destructive actions are in any way coincidental or accidental, and I als

        • I think it's possible that he is really so self-involved that he didn't think having teams of masked men coming to round up people and split up families would upset anyone.

          • Re: (Score:2)

            by Phact ( 4649149 )

            I think this is wrong. Upsetting people, "triggering" them is the goal. The cruelty is the point.

            • Perhaps. The thing is he won't see this as something 'he' caused. According to Trump, anyone who isn't Trump is supposed to take any and all shit thrown at them with a smile and if they don't take it then they are criminals.
            • That's exactly correct. The design is to normalize cruelty. This will condition the government enforcers to feel more comfortable treating people terribly. It also sends a clear message to what will happen to anyone that Trump doesn't like once he starts using taking actions against people who aren't here illegally, such as people with strong dissenting messages.

          • Re: (Score:2)

            by Targon ( 17348 )

            We need ICE to pick up Melania and deport her due to her application for residency in the USA being done improperly(someone was bribed into allowing it).

        • The amusing thing to me is that you're blaming Trump for this, and who you really need to be blaming is Obama and Biden, and basically all of the previous administrations of our time.
          Trump is a symptom of a disease, not a cause of it.

          • The amusing thing to me is that you're blaming Trump for this, and who you really need to be blaming is Obama and Biden

            I have frequently and repeatedly blamed Obama and Biden for many things, and as citation I give you Slashdot. You may crawl and/or search it at your leisure. Unfortunately there's no really convenient way to view a user's posting history any more; once upon a time when this was a better place, you could buy a subscription to bypass the last ad that you couldn't turn off due to good karma, and be able to search? or at least page back into the past of your own posting history.

            Trump is a symptom of a disease, not a cause of it.

            At very best, he is an instrument

    • Only Trump's organized crime and insider trading friends are allowed to commit fraud, you silly boy.

    • Re: (Score:1)

      by gtall ( 79522 )

      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

    • They're both equally antiamerican and both designed to break this country. There are no small potatoes.

  • Don't forget Starlink (Score:5, Interesting)

    by quonset ( 4839537 ) on Tuesday June 10, 2025 @07:56PM (#65441285)

    Without prior approval, Starlink was installed [thedailybeast.com] on the roof of the 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, 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?

    • Surely whoever bills for Trump's services knows exactly what has been sent so far. Trump doesn't "work" for free.

    • ...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.

    • 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.

    • Re: (Score:2)

      by jd ( 1658 )

      Back in the days of the Rainbow series, the Orange Book required that data that was marked as secure could not be transferred to any location or user who was (a) not authorised to access it or (b) did not have the security permissions regardless of any other authorisation. There was an additional protocol, though, listed in those manuals - I don't know if it was ever applied though - which stated that data could not be transferred to any device or any network that did not enforce the same security rules or

  • Trump quietly does something? Check him for fever. On second thought, ignore it, go have a Jamba Juice.

  • The Trump administration continues to demonstrate it has no clue. Not really a surprise.

    • Re: (Score:2)

      by caseih ( 160668 )

      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.

  • 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)

    by FudRucker ( 866063 ) on Tuesday June 10, 2025 @09:40PM (#65441481)
    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

    • 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

      So you think that the subversion of the economic system is fine because it leads to lower fruit & vegetable prices? I am guessing you have no morals.

      I am fine with deporting personnel who are not here legally, It should be done with respect and the people who are providing the employment should be punished severely, as in prison time or more. But that is not what is happening. The FBI launched a huge "capture" of illegals at Ambiance Apparel and Home Depot in Los Angeles. Did they try to capture the own

  • I'm shocked! /sarc (Score:4, Funny)

    by jenningsthecat ( 1525947 ) on Tuesday June 10, 2025 @09:42PM (#65441487)

    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.

  • The Trump administration has been largely a copy-paste production. When they initially wanted to "replace" the ACA back during his first term, their plan was to replace the ACA with the ACA - made better by putting his signature at the end instead of the signature of President Obama. When they were finally called out on that, they quietly dropped their efforts to repeal the ACA, instead focusing on various things they can do in the name of "border security" (nevermind that no effort has been made this ter

    • Re: (Score:2)

      by jd ( 1658 )

      Trump's abandoned The Wall, as he found that the album doesn't mention Mexico even once, although he found the marching hammers very inspiring.

  • What happened to rule of law in the US? (Score:3)

    by quenda ( 644621 ) on Wednesday June 11, 2025 @08:00AM (#65442047)

    I used to think the US was a democracy, where the ultimate authority was the laws passed by Congress.
    But it seems that, over the last several presidencies, Congress has become increasingly dysfunctional, and handed over broad powers to the Executive.
    The US president is now far more powerful than any British King since the Magna Carta (or ever?). Legislation has given way to Executive Orders.

    It is like ancient Rome, when in times of crisis they elected a dictator. Are Americans happy with this?
    Why is Congress not fighting in the courts to regain power? Have they lost the will to pass legislation, like an actual democracy does?
      Is that not what they are paid for?

    • I recall Congress impeaching this buffoon and that was probably the most important thing congress has done in a long time. It's not their fault the rest of the government chose to ignore them.

    • Why is Congress not fighting in the courts to regain power?

      They don't need to go to court, all they need to do is to pass legislation (and maybe override a veto). They don't really even need to take powers back from the president, just more clearly define what constitutes an "emergency". Trump's most egregious actions are justified under statutes that grant him exceptional emergency powers -- which makes sense. When an emergency happens you want the executive to be able to respond quickly, and Congress is never fast. But those statutes assume that the president w

    • I used to think the US was a democracy

      Dude, random voting will never outperform organized crime. Larry Fink is in fact a mob boss even if he can't be called a Godfather. Democracy was dead as soon as they lifted the restrictions on how Congress could be manipulated by external forces.

  • I think with our current lifestyle, people are losing their IDs more than ever before. There could also be a relevant window for theft as we proceed with the vetting process to figure out who is actually a citizen over the coming years.

    The potential benefits of having digital ID are pretty interesting. There are also some risks. Part of me is a bit miffed to see this program disrespected. On the other hand it's always possible that the way it was being done was not good.

    Now that Palantir is workin

    • I think there is too much obsession with ID. Real ID is just more security theatre and in a few years I predict that even that will be declared "not enough", and there will be a need to embed body parts from everyone in your family tree into the card or some such nonsense.

      This was mostly done in the name of combatting the kind of terrorism exhibited on 9/11 but I think all the perpetrators of that had valid IDs, were not shy about their public identities and were living openly in the US. I woudl challenge a

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