Notices by Sean Gallagher :verified: 🐀 :donor: (thepacketrat@infosec.exchange)

It's like Trump tuned his picks to create the most chaos possible, the ones that would trigger every non-MAGA so hard that they would be shocked into a stupor by just how totally Dunning-Kruger his choices are.

My son keeps texting me Trump's reported cabinet picks for the lulz.

Please, G*d
“Cybersecurity is South Dakota’s next big industry,” Noem said last year. “South Dakota is in the middle of the country — and we’re landlocked, so foreign spy ships and subs can’t reach us. It makes a lot of sense for cybersecurity resources to be centered here.”
H/T to @gregotto https://cyberscoop.com/dhs-nominee-kristi-noem-cyber-grants-trump-admin/

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