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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 ANarrativeApe »

"The Constitution explicitly forbids Congress from issuing bills of attainder—laws that single out individuals for punishment without trial. While that restriction technically applies to the Legislative branch, the spirit of it clearly applies here. A president cannot simply declare someone an enemy of the state for contradicting a political narrative. That’s not national security—it’s authoritarianism, dressed up in executive language."

So the Constitution does not forbid it. All executive orders, it could be argued, are authoritarian, not just the ones that you happen to dislike. The moral? Be damned careful to whom you give this authority.

Re: Deafening Silence from the Cybersecurity Industry

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Post by pyrale »

LastTrain wrote: post #31
pm90 wrote: post #25

Earlier quoted context omitted.

To a certain extent this is a result of living in a media ecosystem where most of the population doesn’t actually see an unbiased reporting of facts but whatever is shown to them by certain right wing news networks. But I do agree at some point people need to take responsibility for their information diet. Fwiw media manipulation of American opinion isn’t new, its been a huge part of how America works since at least…

There is no such thing as unbiased reporting of facts. People not understanding that, and the fact that there is nothing inherently wrong with bias, is a big part of the problem.

You can be biased but adopt a systematic methodology and a deontology system, both of which help journalists mitigate their bias and produce quality reporting.

The big issue with the current news ecosystem and social media is their complete disregard for this methodology. By discarding the journalistic methodology, they make themselves propagandists, not journalists.

Re: Deafening Silence from the Cybersecurity Industry

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Post by few »

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

https://www.whitehouse.gov/fact-sheets/2025/04/fact-sheet-pr...

>Krebs ... falsely and baselessly denied that the 2020 election was rigged and stolen

This quote coming from "whitehouse.gov/fact-sheets" is pretty wild. This seems to be retribution, plain and simple.

Re: Deafening Silence from the Cybersecurity Industry

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Post by HeatrayEnjoyer »

seethishat wrote: post #24

If I have not seen evidence for or against something, then I would not offer an opinion either. Sometimes, people speak confidently when they are ignorant of the context and the facts. That's not the right thing to do. It's better not to say anything when you don't actually know what you are talking about.

What does that have to do with anything? We're up to our neck in evidence.

Re: Deafening Silence from the Cybersecurity Industry

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Post by spicyusername »

thinkingtoilet wrote: post #54
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…

I think they are just nice and ignorant, honestly.

So many I interact with are just simply unaware and vote based on their discomfort with urban liberal culture. That's it. The blue hair and the pronouns made them feel weird, so they voted the other way.

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Post by cookiengineer »

exe34 wrote: post #20
ripe wrote: post #16

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

Also known as the Ministry of Truth, ironically and sarcastically.

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Post by DrillShopper »

i80and wrote: post #17
_cenw wrote: 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

People want to be able to eat, not be homeless, and provide for their families.

The safety net in America is tattered and torn, with the current administration working to remove it.

Re: Deafening Silence from the Cybersecurity Industry

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Post by phirschybar »

everdrive wrote: post #38

My impression is that the first Trump presidency left everyone at a loss. If you react with outrage, you're labeled in some negative way. This is really an extension of online trolling, where any emotional reaction proves that you "lost." Everyone has a chance to speak up now, but this actually diminishes the power of everyone's voice. You're one drop in a few billion or a few hundred million now. And to the extent t…

this sums up the situation eloquently and perfectly

Re: Deafening Silence from the Cybersecurity Industry

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Post by bigolkevin »

Lerc wrote: post #65

First they came for the Communists and I did not speak out because I fear they cannot be stopped They will come for more speaking out makes you their next target

Being their next target is inevitable. Their greed has no bounds.

Will you be a silent victim or will you resist?

Will you fight back now, when you have more potential allies, or later, when so many have already been erased?

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