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Deafening Silence from the Cybersecurity Industry

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Re: Deafening Silence from the Cybersecurity Industry

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Deafening silence about what the executive order actually says or any facts about the case.

No, the article sums it up correctly. He refused to go along with the "stolen election" narrative Trump was trying to build (and a few others) and is now being punished for it.

> Krebs, through CISA, falsely and baselessly denied that the 2020 election was rigged and stolen, including by inappropriately and categorically dismissing widespread election malfeasance and serious vulnerabilities with voting machines

https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/04/addr...

Re: Deafening Silence from the Cybersecurity Industry

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We are not "silent", we're just not being heard. Those are not the same things. You'll find plenty of critique and analysis, anticipating and commenting on the unfolding cybsersecurity calamity [0,1,2] ... [0] https://www.schneier.com/ [1] https://cybershow.uk/blog/ [2] https://www.dataandpolitics.net/trump-is-a-critical-vulnerab... When those who own and control the means of discourse are donors to, and so in collus…

> [2]https://www.dataandpolitics.net/trump-is-a-critical-vulnerab...

Is CVE-47 taken?

Re: Deafening Silence from the Cybersecurity Industry

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The silence from cybersec, with a couple of exceptions, about DOGE is stunning to me. Not this story but what I thought the headline referred to.

>what I thought the headline referred to.

I thought the same.

https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1913023007263543565.html

Re: Deafening Silence from the Cybersecurity Industry

#16

Deafening silence about what the executive order actually says or any facts about the case.

No, the article sums it up correctly. He refused to go along with the "stolen election" narrative Trump was trying to build (and a few others) and is now being punished for it. > Krebs, through CISA, falsely and baselessly denied that the 2020 election was rigged and stolen, including by inappropriately and categorically dismissing widespread election malfeasance and serious vulnerabilities with voting machines https…

Thank you for posting the link. Should have been part of the article.

WTF? Black is white, and white is black.

Re: Deafening Silence from the Cybersecurity Industry

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post #7

My experience is that everyone who's not close to any of these impacts is apathetic or treating events like they're reality TV, and even light attempts at convincing that there's more going on and that we might be in a historic and bad situation is met with hostility as if you just told someone's small kid that Santa isn't real. At best they care about the financial parts of the news.

People only caring about immediate financial impacts is so deeply disheartening

Re: Deafening Silence from the Cybersecurity Industry

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post #17
post #7

My experience is that everyone who's not close to any of these impacts is apathetic or treating events like they're reality TV, and even light attempts at convincing that there's more going on and that we might be in a historic and bad situation is met with hostility as if you just told someone's small kid that Santa isn't real. At best they care about the financial parts of the news.

People only caring about immediate financial impacts is so deeply disheartening

Welcome to America where the only God is the greenback

Re: Deafening Silence from the Cybersecurity Industry

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post #16

Earlier quoted context omitted.

No, the article sums it up correctly. He refused to go along with the "stolen election" narrative Trump was trying to build (and a few others) and is now being punished for it. > Krebs, through CISA, falsely and baselessly denied that the 2020 election was rigged and stolen, including by inappropriately and categorically dismissing widespread election malfeasance and serious vulnerabilities with voting machines https…

Thank you for posting the link. Should have been part of the article. WTF? Black is white, and white is black.

https://web.archive.org/web/20250130231413/https://www.cisa....

Here's an article supposedly of Krebs provenance, which implicitly lumps Trump himself in as a "malicious actor".

> can lead to uncertainty in the minds of voters; uncertainty that can be exploited by malicious actors

Maybe not something I would want said or repeated by my administration either, disregarding the veracity.

There's no date or byline either, so according to the authoritative FAQ, if this were to stand, it would be an admission of acting in bad faith.

Given federal government communications sprawl, it's quite a needle, pretty good performance in my opinion to root this out, disregarding sowing doubt about a federated election and who's will specifically it should / will service.

Voter inclusion (who should / may vote) is itself at issue, but even in the assessment here given DOGE findings unveils possible oversights, FWAB in the FAQ is cited to depend in part on SSNs and in light of the DOGE findings regarding 150+ year olds collecting social security, the security assessment itself does not describe a system that is definitively air-tight, or even terribly reassuring, if there's doubt in your mind about who voted, and how.

Re: Deafening Silence from the Cybersecurity Industry

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post #16

Earlier quoted context omitted.

No, the article sums it up correctly. He refused to go along with the "stolen election" narrative Trump was trying to build (and a few others) and is now being punished for it. > Krebs, through CISA, falsely and baselessly denied that the 2020 election was rigged and stolen, including by inappropriately and categorically dismissing widespread election malfeasance and serious vulnerabilities with voting machines https…

Thank you for posting the link. Should have been part of the article. WTF? Black is white, and white is black.

Truth is what big brother says it is.
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