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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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Post by scarface_74 »

Applejinx wrote: post #36
derriz wrote: post #21

It seems that the idea that someone could be motivated simply by having integrity, valuing honesty and pride in simply "doing their job" correctly is so alien to the current US administration that they see political motives everywhere and in everyone's actions. The fact that people with such a cynical and amoral worldview wield so much power not only in US but globally and are willing to wield that power in capriciou…

Bear in mind that a lot of people took pains to not look at their candidate too closely, to the point where a (slim) voting majority wasn't showing up to rallies etc. during the campaign. One might see this as signs of their being fake, but it could also be suggestive that they didn't want to come out and see where their guy was really at. They voted for the IDEA of him and what they figured he represented, and were…

Everyone who voted for Trump knew exactly what they were getting or should have known. He was in office for four years. 40% of the people know what he is doing and approve of it.

Re: Deafening Silence from the Cybersecurity Industry

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Post by hobs »

smallmancontrov wrote: post #49
AlexandrB wrote: post #33

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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Fox and MSNBC are relentlessly partisan, but CNN aims for the center and misses. There's a big difference, and it's wild that Republicans got away with pretending that CNN was in the Fox/MSNBC tier just by repeating it as dogma until in their own minds it became true.

Fox's main approach - repeating anything that's a lie as dogma until its parroted as core truth by their audience, then saying they are opinion and not news so everyone knows not to take them seriously.

Re: Deafening Silence from the Cybersecurity Industry

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Post by nonrandomstring »

bambax wrote: post #26
ripe wrote: post #12

The administration needs to be sued in court. What else can be done? This is awful.

> What else can be done? Civil war. It will probably have to come to this, some day or other.

Information not inflamation. Please.

Re: Deafening Silence from the Cybersecurity Industry

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Post by thinkingtoilet »

derriz wrote: post #21

It seems that the idea that someone could be motivated simply by having integrity, valuing honesty and pride in simply "doing their job" correctly is so alien to the current US administration that they see political motives everywhere and in everyone's actions. The fact that people with such a cynical and amoral worldview wield so much power not only in US but globally and are willing to wield that power in capriciou…

A lot of people in the US, especially the Christian Trump supporters are nice but not kind. They will say hi, they will smile, they ask if you need anything, then they will happily defend the deportation of innocent people to secret prisons in foreign countries without any sort of due process. They will offer to bring you soup while your sick but will fight tooth and nail to make sure you don't have affordable health care. The list goes on and on...

Re: Deafening Silence from the Cybersecurity Industry

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Post by iszomer »

bognition wrote: post #18
i80and wrote: post #17

Earlier quoted context omitted.

People only caring about immediate financial impacts is so deeply disheartening

Welcome to America where the only God is the greenback

"..and I'll spend it as fast as I can." --Kingston Trio

- https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=YvGxZD-HNCM

Re: Deafening Silence from the Cybersecurity Industry

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Post by akuchling »

keyringlight wrote: post #29
nonrandomstring wrote: post #9

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…

Another one [0] SpyCast - DOGE Layoffs and the Counterintelligence Threats They Pose Also on their podcast RSS, but it seems they haven't added a webpage to link to for that individual show [0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=foLsTVQwBIg

Also Violet Blue's weekly cybersecurity roundups: the most recent is https://www.patreon.com/posts/cybersecurity-15-126689368 .

Re: Deafening Silence from the Cybersecurity Industry

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Post by jasonjayr »

deadbabe wrote: post #32
bambax wrote: post #26

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> What else can be done? Civil war. It will probably have to come to this, some day or other.

If you’re not willing to pick up arms and fight, chances are no one else is, so it will never happen. Most likely nothing can be done and people will just live under a totalitarian fascist regime for the duration of their lives. Keep talking about civil war, you’ll be imprisoned and silenced. You should delete your post.

They should NOT delete their post.

Do not comply in advance.

Re: Deafening Silence from the Cybersecurity Industry

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Post by pclmulqdq »

smallmancontrov wrote: post #49
AlexandrB wrote: post #33

Earlier quoted context omitted.

[flagged]

Fox and MSNBC are relentlessly partisan, but CNN aims for the center and misses. There's a big difference, and it's wild that Republicans got away with pretending that CNN was in the Fox/MSNBC tier just by repeating it as dogma until in their own minds it became true.

CNN joined that tier around 2018 for the ratings, then tried to un-join that tier. It didn't work.

Re: Deafening Silence from the Cybersecurity Industry

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Post by basejumping »

jjtheblunt wrote: post #40
derriz wrote: post #21

It seems that the idea that someone could be motivated simply by having integrity, valuing honesty and pride in simply "doing their job" correctly is so alien to the current US administration that they see political motives everywhere and in everyone's actions. The fact that people with such a cynical and amoral worldview wield so much power not only in US but globally and are willing to wield that power in capriciou…

> But what is more horrifying for me is that apparently this administration remains representative of a large section of the US population - with seemingly unshakeable approval by between 40% and 50% of the US adult population according to polls. It’s possible that percentage counts dissatisfaction with the previous administration more than approval for the current one. That is, it might just count people wanting any…

You should then be dissatisfied with both at the same time. When people wish 'any change' they actually wish a change into better, otherwise it's plain stupid.
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