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To the "I wish HN would stay out of politics" crew. You can stay out of politics, but politics will always come and find you.
People are not dumb. They know that politics is everywhere but they want to live and love and talk about things that are interesting.
Weren't there major problems with the current CVE implementation, especially with the waves of script kiddies and AI tools spamming the database and the fact that projects who take security seriously have little to no say in the "score" that gets assigned?
and then a random 9.8 critical comes that affects some software you have in a way that makes it a 0 in your environment but it doesn't matter cause the cve tanks your organizational Security Score (tm) by 10 arbitrary points and management is wondering when you'll secure the company again because the Security Score is their only tangible deliverable to measure success
Maybe I have a dependency on Foo which has a critical vulnerability in a feature that I don't use. I suppress the warning and all is well. Then two weeks later someone on my team decides to use that feature, not knowing that there's a problem with it. Now we're fucked, and we'll never know because the vulnerability has been suppressed.
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Everything was always political. Laws, the economy, conflcit. How is any person not affected by these? The government is responsible for all or a large part of how a country functions. People who say "I'm not political" are deflecting to avoid conflict
> People who say "I'm not political" are deflecting to avoid conflict A great truth. Even isolating yourself from society like a hermit is still a political decision: you are rejecting society as it is, and prefer to live in your own solo society. That's politics.
If there are any Europeans here, I'd love to make my vulnerability database that's accumulated from all linux security trackers and the CVE/NVD open source if I can manage to find some folks who'd help with maintenance. Currently hosting costs are unclear, but it should be doable if we offer API access for like 5 bucks / month for private and 100 / month for corporate or similar. Already did a backup of the NVD in th…
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Everything is political now by design. It's meant to reach into every facet of society and community and restructure it.
Everything was always political. Laws, the economy, conflcit. How is any person not affected by these? The government is responsible for all or a large part of how a country functions. People who say "I'm not political" are deflecting to avoid conflict
That's what makes working democracies successful. But it seems that it also makes democracies vulnerable because people don't realize they have these benefits because they live in a working democracy. They start to think these benefits have nothing to do with politics and are just the way things are, like the laws of nature.
Man, I just can’t even muster the snark I usually have for these sorts of boneheaded decisions. This sucks, plain and simple.
I'm trying to steelman but I really can't think of a non- nefarious justification for this
Man, I just can’t even muster the snark I usually have for these sorts of boneheaded decisions. This sucks, plain and simple.
I can't believe what a bunch of bollocks this administration is. I couldn't believe it the first time, and this time I thought "Well at least I'm ready, it will be a lot like last time" and it's so much worse
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I can't believe what a bunch of bollocks this administration is. I couldn't believe it the first time, and this time I thought "Well at least I'm ready, it will be a lot like last time" and it's so much worse
A lot was lost in the midterms and Supreme Court appointments. Hopefully these 4 years energize people to vote. I know protesting and direct action and so on are also important, but the gradient is not negative for voting for every office you can vote for in every election.