Premise of the question, yes google was Hiding Informationhe from its users, he effectively conceded. It was for their own good. According to feinberg, google didnt want to lead people down pathways that we would not find to be authoritative information. Authoritative information. Youve heard that phrase a lot in the last year. Authoritative information is the opposite of misinformation, or disinformation, or worse, a conspiracy theory. Its really important. All you are allowed to see is authoritative information. Its worth knowing in this and many w other cases, what is it . In this case, where did google get the authoritative information . In this case, they got that information from a group led byo a noted man of science, the nama sounds familiar, he almost singlehandedly stopped all public speculation about the lab leak early in the pandemic. He did this in one swoop bye organizing a letter to the Land Standing as a known fact, there was no possibility of this virus, the coronaviru
Test test captions Copyright National cable satellite corp. 2008 why is it, you know, that its hard for us to get that right . Do you think its possible to continue incentive based Public Private partnerships as part of an effective Cyber Defense program or do you think its going to come to congress having to more strongly consider imposing mandates . Well, i think the other commissioners would agree the approach weve largely taken in this report was to try and incentivize the private sector to work more closely with the federal government or as we say in the chairmans letter trying and incentivize the private sector to take Cyber Security seriously. There are areas, however, where we are imposing further requirements that some in the private sector will no doubt view as onerous, but i do think connected to the earlier series of questions on the russian hack and things like that, i think culturally what were trying to do here is shift the culture and the Intelligence Community and this
Then with that, again, i thank the chairman and i now welcome our panel of witnesses. First, i would again like to welcome senator angus king, the former governor of maine, who served as cochair of this commission. Senator king currently sits on the Senate Armed Services committee and the committee on intelligence among others and has been a vocal leader on cybersecurity throughout his tenure. I welcome the senator here. Next, representative Mike Gallagher, cochair of the cyber Space Commission and current member of the house of representatives for the 8th district of wisconsin. Mr. Gallagher is a member of the house Armed Services committee and a former member of this committee. I also would like to welcome mr. Gallagher back to the committee again, back to congress after his paternity leave. I thank him for interrupting his paternity leave being with us. Again, congratulations on your daughter grace. In addition to being a huge packers fan, i know youre very proud as a father and for
Langevin and others. Recognizeey i myself. The warnings we had and decisions made about the most recent worldwide Intelligence Committee in january of 2019, and i quote, the United States and the world will remain vulnerable to the next pandemic where large scale outbreak of contagious disease that could lead to massive rates of death and disability, severely affect the world economy, strain international resources, and increase calls from the United States for support. We must ask ourselves what are the warnings are going unheeded, and what can we do right now to protect the American People from other threats . Before the unthinkable happens in the future, how can we exercise strategic and precisive foresight to the best of our ability today to ensure are a nation prepared for tomorrow . That same worldwide threat assessment Cyber Attacks is a top global threat with china, russia, iran, and north korea, raging a silent war capable of shutting down with such Information Systems and cri
Quote the United States and the world will remain vulnerable to the next pandemic or largescale outbreak of contagiousd disease. That could lead to a massive disability. Th and severely affects the worlds economy a. Strain international resources, and weak call in the United States support. We must ask ourselves, what are the warnings that are going unheeded . What can we do right now to protect the American People from other threats . Before the unthinkable happens in the future, how can we exercise strategic and persuasive foresight to the best of our ability today to ensure we are a nation prepared for tomorrow . That same worldwide threat assessment against Cyber Attacks with china, russia, iran, north korea, raging a silent work capable of shutting down such Information Systems and jeopardizing critical sectors in america. The report states, and i quote , our adversaries and strategic competitors increasingly use the cyber capabilities, including Cyber Espionage, to attack and see