Post #1746827

2026-04-28 13:13 UTC

@claudius why should technical skills like that be a requirement for people to have something to say in politics? The stakes are too high as they are now, you need to have rhetoric skills, a mindset to make it to the top and a bunch of other privileges. We shouldn't individualize everything, it's a structural problem and there should be structural measures in place to prevent politicians from making those mistakes. It's a government we're talking about, they have the resources. @davep @ahltorp @jtb

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@davep@infosec.exchange 2026-04-28 13:18

@radieschen 💯 @claudius @ahltorp @jtb

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@claudius@darmstadt.social 2026-04-28 13:49

@radieschen @davep @ahltorp @jtb I am not saying they must be perfect. But if they are not they need to get themselves help. And, as pointed out, they need better than average opsec *anyway* because they also should not leave hardcopies of sensitive stuff in a cab or paste their plans for some upcoming regulation into ChatGPT. Yes, that is the bar I would set for a politician. Yes, we also need structural help. Both of these are desirable.

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@dirtside@phpc.social 2026-04-28 16:40

@radieschen @claudius @davep @ahltorp @jtb agreed. as an example, we have here in the US the Secret Service whose job is (among other things) to protect the president from physical threats. it is not the president's job to do threat analysis or secure locations. similarly there should be a technical branch that provides secure tools that are highly resistant to being misused, rather than govt officials just using off the shelf software on their own initiative.

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