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After Suspected Russian Hack, Biden Needs to Show Leadership
America’s weakness in cybersecurity has been obvious for decades. Fixing the problem won’t be easy.
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No one could say they weren’t warned.
Although the sophisticated cyberattacks that have penetrated agencies across the federal government in recent months exploited a novel security flaw, they were only successful due to years of mismanagement and inattention to obvious vulnerabilities. It will fall to President-elect Joe Biden to finally address a problem that has eluded all of his recent predecessors.