{"id":5779,"date":"2017-07-29T11:02:12","date_gmt":"2017-07-29T18:02:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.privateinternetaccess.com\/blog\/?p=5779"},"modified":"2021-11-18T07:19:48","modified_gmt":"2021-11-18T15:19:48","slug":"this-is-how-absolutely-headdeskingly-clueless-politicians-are-at-anything-it-security-related","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.privateinternetaccess.com\/blog\/this-is-how-absolutely-headdeskingly-clueless-politicians-are-at-anything-it-security-related\/","title":{"rendered":"This is how absolutely headdeskingly clueless politicians are at anything IT security related"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Swedish IT leak scandal has caused a governmental crisis: even when having every kind of self-interest to read up on IT security, today\u2019s politicians just can\u2019t get it right. The Swedish leak where classified data and networks were outsourced outside the European Union was not an isolated incident, but a pervasive pattern where things are kept safe mostly by good luck and the occasional person who knows their stuff fixing things properly out of pure subordination. This week, the opposition leader stated that the physical location of a server is <em>of no importance<\/em> as far as security goes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Heads are rolling in Swedish government following the revelation that classified data and networks have been leaking out of the country for two years, and still are. Unfortunately, the major players have turned it into politics-as-usual and are trying to score cheap points like it were any other matter, which devalues the seriousness of the matter considerably, and politicians are exposing their utter and shocking cluelessness in the process.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A quick recap: A Swedish governmental agency finds security laws annoying, makes a formal and notarized meeting decision to break the laws, and subsequently <a href=\"https:\/\/www.privateinternetaccess.com\/blog\/swedish-transport-agency-worst-known-governmental-leak-ever-is-slowly-coming-to-light\/\">exposes everything from military operators to protected witnesses<\/a> to uncleared personnel in foreign countries. The head of the agency is fined half a month\u2019s paycheck and fired. Media finds out not from press releases, but from extensive digging: it\u2019s clear that the government has tried to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.privateinternetaccess.com\/blog\/swedish-administration-tried-glossing-leaking-eus-secure-stesta-intranet-russia\/\">hush the whole thing up<\/a> as far as possible.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Subsequently, there\u2019s a governmental crisis, a vote of no confidence has been announced, and two ministers were been fired from the cabinet (before the vote had a chance to take place) for their role in knowing about this and doing just about nothing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">So do politicians understand why this catastrophic leak is, well, catastrophic? Unfortunately, no. Not in the slightest. They just understand that people are mad about something, and are trying to capitalize on it. I\u2019d like to present just this short exchange from the Swedish Public TV, equivalent to the United States NPR but for television. At 12:30 into the interview, there\u2019s this exchange:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Reporter: \u201cBut the political decision to outsource this IT activity at the Transport Agency, that decision was taken by [a government lead by your party as opposed to the current government] in 2012? What\u2019s your responsibility for this leak?\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Politician: \u201cThe particular location in the world of a server isn\u2019t what\u2019s important here, but how you take responsibility for security.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The politician in question is <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Anna_Kinberg_Batra\">Anna Kinberg-Batra<\/a> \u2014 the effective opposition leader, and the person who would become prime minister if there were a successful vote of no confidence against the government. Let\u2019s take that again, because it\u2019s important: this is not a person from the government responsible for the leak, but the <em>opposition leader<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Her statement looks reasonable on the surface, but completely glosses over the fact that the jurisdiction and location are the <em>very first things<\/em> you consider for server security. The team at Private Internet Access has to consider this all the time. This is the reason I\u2019m running servers in my home: the legal security of the physical location. The very first rule of computer security is that if an adversary can have physical access to your computer, then it\u2019s not your computer anymore.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The nationality of the police who are able to walk straight into a server room and copy anything they want, because the government of the soil where the server room is located wants them to, is the <em>very first thing<\/em> you consider when placing national-security-related data on a server somewhere.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>In other words, today\u2019s politicians can\u2019t get IT security right even when their future as a prime minister depends on them getting it <em>less than a hundred percent wrong<\/em> and they\u2019ve had several days at their disposal to read up on the subject. It\u2019s really that bad.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This is how bad it is.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It is absurd. It is bad. Today\u2019s politicians are headdeskingly clueless about IT security, even in a career critical moment when they\u2019ve had days to study for it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">(Footnote: in case the Swedish Public TV times out their website\u2019s copy of the interview, it\u2019s also <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=FPlbE8UqdFs\">available here<\/a>.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Privacy remains your own responsibility for sure.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Swedish IT leak scandal has caused a governmental crisis: even when having every kind of self-interest to read up on IT security, today\u2019s politicians just can\u2019t get it right. 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