Obama promises ‘basic online security to every American’

Published February 9, 2016 1:38pm ET



President Obama on Tuesday outlined a new set of cybersecurity initiatives that he said would provide “every American a basic level of online security.”

“It is no secret that too often government IT is like an Atari game in an Xbox world,” Obama wrote in an op-ed for the Wall Street Journal. “The Social Security Administration uses systems and code from the 1960s. No successful business could operate this way.”

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