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MSNBC Guest Suggests Trump Might ‘Turn Off the Internet’ for Political Purposes if Re-Elected


A former Trump administration official is claiming his old boss might seek to use wartime powers for political purposes.

On Thursday, former national security official Miles Taylor claimed there is “a lot” former President Donald Trump can do “bubble-wrapped in legalese that would be damaging to the republic.”

Taylor went on to reference a so-called “Doomsday Book” in the White House that outlines the powers a president has in the event of a foreign invasion.

He argued, “[Trump] could invoke powers we’ve never heard a President of the United States invoke, potentially to shut down companies or turn off the internet or deploy the U.S. military on U.S. soil.”

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Several people on X, formerly Twitter, focused on Miles’ mention of Trump potentially shutting down the internet to roast his comments.

The Federalist’s Emily Jashinsky wrote, “But [Trump] loves the internet.”

“of all the things to say here based on what trump says and has done, you go with trump may ‘turn off the internet?’” asked one user.

Conservative writer John Hasson posted, “Trump built an entire social media platform because he couldn’t live without Twitter But sure, he’s going to turn off the internet.”

Taylor later reacted to the clip of his comments, writing, “I’d love for the internet to be turned off for a bit … just not by a demented, Putin-loving hack wielding emergency…

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Datiphy tracks what data is up to for security, auditing purposes

Datiphy, a service provider founded in Taiwan, has bundled its technology for sale as a software package to make inroads in the U.S. as a security/data auditing tool that detects and reports suspicious access to databases.

The company has been selling its service in Asia-Pacific since 2011 but has decided to improve the user interface and give it natural-language search to make it more attractive in the U.S. where the large enterprises it seeks as customers want to have an on-premises platform, says Mike Hoffman, executive vice president of sales and marketing.

Datiphy has also gotten a financial shot in the arm, pulling down $ 7 million from Highland Capital Partners in its first round of institutional funding that it will use in part to hire staff to pursue partnerships so data gathered by the platform can be shared with other security products.

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Is it a bad practice to modify code strictly for testing purposes?

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I have a debate with a programmer colleague about whether it is a good or bad practice to modify a working piece of code only to make it testable (via unit tests for example).

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Can someone tell me if it`s possible to lock individual folders in a computer for security purposes?

I have several other people that use my computer, and I am trying to find out if I can lock certain folders to resrict accsess. eg. banking information ect…. Thanks guys.