We are watching ... watching ...
It is so reassuring to know that our [US] government is taking security so seriously:
After the earlier breach discovered in March 2014, OPM undertook “an aggressive effort to update our cybersecurity posture, adding numerous tools and capabilities to our networks,” Seymour said. “As a result of adding these tools, we were able to detect this intrusion into our networks.”
In other words, after discovering the barn door was kicked in and the horses molested, the farmer put up a security camera aimed at the door, and promptly detected that, "Holy Shit! They just kicked in the door again!"
Meanwhile, we're watching closely ... and recording all foreign and domestic communication to store and sift and sort ... to see if just possibly, perhaps, there's a bit of anti-US plotting taking place.
Other than the millions of current and ex-federal employees whose personal details are now in some Chinese database, we should all feel so much more secure:
“These things are going to keep happening, and we’re going to see more and more because our detection techniques are improving,” the [anonymous DHS] official said.
Translation: "We've added a second security camera to watch the barn door."
(If someone wrote this up and performed it as a Saturday Night Live skit, they've be laughed off the stage!)
Biting the hand that feeds IT
