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Trump administration fires members of cybersecurity review board in ‘horribly shortsighted’ decision

The Department of Homeland security told members of the Cyber Safety Review Board that their membership was terminated.

On Tuesday, a day after Donald Trump’s inauguration as the new U.S. president, the Department of Homeland Security told members of several advisory committees that they were effectively fired. Another person familiar with the matter pointed out that “it’s interesting that the rationale is ‘misuse of resources’ because all advisory board members get an excitingly rich salary of…$0.” Katie Moussouris, a cybersecurity expert with more than two decades of experience, and a former member of the CSRB, told TechCrunch that “the people who serve as government advisors should be judged by skills and merit, not by political affiliation.

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