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[BajiBoxer]

President-elect Donald Trump named former New York mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani as an informal adviser on cybersecurity, according to the presidential transition office.

Giuliani, who heads a cybersecurity consulting firm Giuliani Partners, will serve as an adviser on finding solutions to cyber-incursions in the private sector and to advise the government on possible responses.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news...collaborative_1_na-amp&utm_term=.6152bc7e1f4b

 

[The Lamonster]

Welcome, Rudy, to the Age of Computer

 

[notaskwid]

Sounds like the man for the job.

 

[xxracerxx]

Giuliani going to round up all those 400 lbs. Barons out there.

 

[Moonkeis]

Unfortunately at this point, I expect all bad news and would like to be surprised by something positive.

 

[kmax]

So, Murdoch for FCC Chair and Giuliani as cybersecurity adviser.

edit: well technically, he gets to pick them, but yeah.

 

[Santiako]

Rudy, get on the cyber.

 

[always crazy bacon]

#besthackingdefense

 

[Akuun]

An expert on the cyber and hacking defense.

 

[Kifimbo]

Probably will be a Thiel puppet via using a Palantir.

 

[LiK]

I bet this guy doesn't even have an email account.

 

[crowphoenix]

Wait. He's only focusing on the private sector?

 

[ElectricBlanketFire]

 

[Moonkeis]

I bet this guy doesn't even have an email account.

AOL E-mail is a good step for him.

 

[Exile20]

He knows anything about cyber?

 

[FantasticMrFoxdie]

I bet this guy doesn't even have an email account.

That's the best line of defense!

 

[guek]

And here I was sure it'd be his 10yr old son Barron. I hear he can do anything with a computer.

 

[Kurdel]

If one face read as "this dude knows his Cyber, it's Rudy"

 

[x24hrs2livex]

Thought Rudy would've got the SoS job but this is a good alternative.

 

[Exile20]

Wait so Rudy can give his company jobs?

He is going to make money from being an advisor and money from his company getting high paying jobs from the government/whoever?

 

[LiK]

That's the best line of defense!

Gaddamn knew this comment was gonna happen. XD

 

[BoosterDuck]

oh man, those 400 pound bed sitting hackers are in for a world of hurt

 

[The Elite]

I say with all confidence that I think I would be more qualified for the job.

 

[Impeccable]

I bet he has extensive knowledge on computers.

 

[Sandoval]

Bwahahah... So he thinks the doddering old man whose most notable career achievement is getting dunked on by terrorists is even glancingly qualified to advise anyone about the computer machine? Well... I guess this is one of the more reasonable appointments. =/

 

[FreedomFighter]

What a joke.

 

[Nafai1123]

Rudy strikes me as the type of guy who has never actually used a computer because he just tells his assistant what to do while he smokes a cigar.

 

[Pandora012]

He has that Hacking Defense.

 

[adj_noun]

As a security measure, all our binary to be changed to 1s and 9s.

 

[HawksWinStanley]

So, Murdoch for FCC Chair and Giuliani as cybersecurity adviser.

edit: well technically, he gets to pick them, but yeah.

Off topic but has any other show not named The Simpsons given us the quality/quantity of gifs that this one has?

 

[Makonero]

Probably will be a Thiel puppet via using a Palantir.

i'm surprised at this point that thiel hasn't been tapped for something

 

[RSP]

 

[Gurgelhals]

And whenever I say to myself "Now we've truly reached the point where this shitshow can't get any more stupid!", the Orange Turd effortlessly manages to prove me wrong the next day...

I can't deal with this. I really can't. Not for four eight long years.

 

[TheGameshark]

The cyber needs to be kept in check

He's going to bring good hacking defense like a good defensive coordinator

 

[Poker Face]

has rudy used a computer before?

like how do you justify this choice lol

 

[Seiryoden]

Jesus fucking wept. Every fail-at-life Republican pissmop is getting a second chance under Trump.

 

[PrivateWHudson]

He heads a cyber security consulting firm? Guess he has some 1337 cyber skills. Or did he grab this job recently knowing what trump had planned for him?

 

[E92 M3]

 

[Flux]

Did he do anything (good) besides happening to be the mayor during 9/11?

 

[xxracerxx]

Did he do anything (good) besides happening to be the mayor during 9/11?

He turned Times Square into another sort of cesspool than it had already been.

 

[theaface]

The most tremendous thing to do about much hacking is much defense.

 

[darkwing]

so, it's tremendous hacking defense bigly

 

[Skellig Gra]

Did he do anything (good) besides happening to be the mayor during 9/11?

Yes but that was a long time ago in a galaxy far away

 

[NandoGip]

 

[BajiBoxer]

The Wikipedia summary on his private consulting business so you know what to expect:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giuliani_Partners

"No client is ever approved or worked on without a full discussion with Rudy... We're cautious in the right sense of that term, in terms of who we work for. We always want to make sure it is a company that is doing the right thing, that we're proud to represent," according to Giuliani Partners’ senior managing partner, Michael D. Hess, former Corporation Counsel for New York City.[4]

Giuliani’s colleagues at Giuliani Partners have included founding member and Vice President Matthew Mahoney, a former Deputy Director of Advance for the Mayor’s Office;[10] Bernard Kerik, Giuliani's former police commissioner, who was later accused of having ties to organized crime[4] and left the firm in 2004;[11] former FBI man D'Amuro, who admitted taking six non-evidentiary artifacts from Ground Zero as mementos, but against whom no action was taken by the FBI;[12] and Monseignor Alan Placa, a high school friend of Giuliani and a former Roman Catholic priest who was accused of sexually molesting numerous children and of covering up molestation in the church.[13] Giuliani Partners has stated that Giuliani "believes that Alan Placa has been unjustly accused," and that the firm has no plans to dismiss him.[14]

 

[Slayven]

Wonder how much apple, google, and others will bend over?

 

[Ozigizo]

The Wikipedia summary on his private consulting business so you know what to expect:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giuliani_Partners

So, in theme with most of the other picks, he has no experience in Cyber Security.

 

[geomon]

Rudy knows all about keeping secrets. Just ask his ex wives or the secret service officers he used to send messages to his mistresses. Perfect man for the job!

 

[Muppet of a Man]

Wait so Rudy can give his company jobs?

He is going to make money from being an advisor and money from his company getting high paying jobs from the government/whoever?

Welcome to the United States of Kleptocracy.

 

[Derwind]

Of course Giuliani was going to get a cabinet pick, do you know how much of Trump ass this man has dined on this past election cycle? Every time he opens his mouth projectiles of shit violently spray out towards whatever has the unfortunate fate of being in the way...

This is just services rendered.