The Gov Shutdown is an Evil Genius Plan.

Not only is this Government Shutdown cruel, and childish, but it is Dangerous & Sinister.

Something that not many people think about in a situation like this, is Cyber Security.
The people who are working to help protect our Cyber networks, are also not getting paid.
Not only that, many are contemplating going into the Private sector, where they won't have to worry about this happening again.

And many of the young bright minds in Cyber today, will not want to work FOR the government, because they wouldn't want to be put into this situation.
Which means that many (if not all of the positions) that will be emptied up, may not get filled in the future.

Keep in mind, that we are in a new Cold-War-iesh era, its done via Cyber attacks. Its a Cold Cyber War. Governments have State Agency cyber soldiers, their job is to come in, everyday and try to find ways to break into the other countries digital infrastructure, and U.S. is no different, multiple attempts are done, daily.
These threat Actors are attempting to hack it, like their Job depended on it, because it does.
And now, those who are helping protect us from that, are leaving, because they can't feed their families, because of the shut down.

Think about this:
Government websites Certificates are being expired, they are not able to update those certificates.
Some browsers may not go to (or heavily discourage) a site with an expired certificate because it is unsafe.
That also makes these sites easy targets for Man in The Middle (MiTM), Cross-Site Scripting (XSS), and SQL Injection attacks.
This means, a foreign agency (or country) can easily start injecting them selves and spying on Government sites.
This article on Krebs On Security is very illuminating on the situation.

I'm telling you.
This shutdown is an Evil Genius plan. The ramifications aren't just the upset, and furloughing of workers, but the dismantling of both our Physical and Digital infrastructure, to make us doubly exposed.

I thought presidents were supposed to look after their citizens, I guess this so-called president didn't get this memo.
I wonder if he actually read the job description before asking Russia to hack him into it.

Be safe out there, stay vigilant.
-ash