The idea of the federal government trying to be on the cutting edge of technological security is pretty laughable
Do You Trust the Government with Your Computer?
![]() | By Heritage Foundation Amy Payne (Bio and Archives) Wednesday, November 14, 2012 | Print friendly | Subscribe | Email Us |
Do you trust the federal government to keep your personal data safe? What about your business’s records and trade secrets?
If you answered “no,” you have good reason—the federal government has had 13 breaches and failures of its own cybersecurity just in the last six months.
Yet the President and his allies in the Senate are pushing forward to regulate America’s cyber-doings, without any clues about how much this will cost us or how it will work.
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