Obama’s new ‘cybersecurity’ scale is Bush-level stupid

In the post-9/11 world, the Bush administration once created a color-coded guide used for fear-mongering detailing the current threat level from bad actors worldwide. This tool — which came to be known as the Homeland Security Advisory System — ranged from green (good) to red (start watching ‘Doomsday Preppers‘ and get in your survival bunker), depending on the risk of terrorist attack. We’ll just overlook the fact that my local news uses the same system to let me know if I’ll be sniffling and rubbing my eyes all day based on pollen counts. Today, the Obama administration released an accompanying schema to detail…
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