Trump executive order takes steps to protect domestic hackers from blowback (election-related hacking not sanctionable)

[Eugene]

Source: Politico

Trump executive order takes steps to protect domestic hackers from blowback

The new order, signed Friday, would overrule elements of previous cyber policy measures signed by former Presidents Joe Biden and Barack Obama.

By Maggie Miller and John Sakellariadis
06/06/2025 07:02 PM EDT

The Trump administration announced Friday it is amending “problematic elements” of two landmark cybersecurity executive orders — though the extent of the changes in many cases appears modest.

The modifications are part of a new executive order signed Friday by President Donald Trump. The full text of the EO was released Friday afternoon, and the Trump administration first outlined details of the order in a White House fact sheet.

The fact sheet says the new order takes aim at two previous EOs focused on cybersecurity — one signed by former President Joe Biden in January just before leaving office, and one by former President Barack Obama in 2015.

The order outlines a potentially weighty change: the new EO would change the Obama-era order — which allows for sanctions on individuals behind cyberattacks on U.S. critical infrastructure — by limiting it “only to foreign malicious actors” and clarifying “that sanctions do not apply to election-related activities.”

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Read more: https://www.politico.com/news/2025/06/06/trump-cyber-executive-order-hacker-sanctions-00393241

[Captain Zero]

1. WTF?

So, DOGE kiddies could take down the electrical grid in Key states on election day?

[JBTaurus83]

2. I find it unlikely

That we will have a fair election.