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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 dspillett »

ANarrativeApe wrote: post #71

"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…

Under the current administration, what the constitution does and doesn't say may be entirely immaterial. They are perfectly happy running ripshod over the due process provisions of the fifth amendment so may choose to ignore, or at least try to ignore, any other part too.

It could be writen on single-ply toilet paper, and the paper hold more value.

Of course a lot of this is up in the air and could be resolved before the end of this term, as there are numerous legal challenges on-going, but perhaps not and with people openly taking about a 3rd term by various tricks (not blatantly declaring that it is happening, but I'd not put it past them!) such as him running as vice to someone else's election campaign then the president elect stepping down, this sort of ignorance of current law could continue for two terms or more.

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Post by ethbr1 »

belorn wrote: post #206
_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.

Politics and media has for the last two decades been operated on generating engagement through outrage, and it seems that we have arrived at the peak of what that model was able to do, with a very sharp decline into apathy. More outrage will not convince people to care. Even the financial parts had very limited impact towards political engagement.

A related change on the people's part has been decreased understanding of how to leverage their own political power.

Congress-critters are concerned about losing reelection. (And of being primaried even in safe districts)

Yet the minification of attention spans has confused the average American voter that they're impotent, when really they're just lazy, ignorant, and unwilling to muster real-world action.

When's the last time you saw someone pepper a House district with self-made signs?

There are things every single person can do, but just doesn't. And because of this, media has been able to turn political engagement into profitable passive consumption.

Re: Deafening Silence from the Cybersecurity Industry

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Post by ethbr1 »

pclmulqdq wrote: post #154
danaris wrote: post #136

Earlier quoted context omitted.

No, that's bullshit. Requiring Congress to get involved every time a regulatory agency needs to adapt to new circumstances or new technology would leave us at the mercy of unscrupulous corporations who can and will "move fast and break things." No; Congress relinquished their power when Congressional Republicans chose to become "the party of No" and just prevent anything from happening under Obama. That's when execut…

I think you need to read some history, because what I'm talking about happened in the 1930's-60's, when Obama wasn't even born yet. The regulatory agencies are ponderous and slow, too. They are just unelected so they can do unpopular things without it impacting their careers. Executive orders are the latest extension of the trend of do-nothing congresses. They have been growing exponentially over time.

There's a reason "it would take an act of Congress" is a saying.

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Post by tastyface »

chairhairair wrote: post #149
few wrote: post #73

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.

Please, some reasonable Trump voter explain how this is acceptable. How can the sitting president still be openly claiming that a previous election was fraudulent after all this time?

I mean, this is very obviously retribution. But nobody's going to reply to you saying "yes, I want those who have wronged my beloved president to be annihilated." So I'm not sure what you're expecting here. There's no good faith explanation for these events save for whatever vague spin Fox News can come up with.

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Post by AnimalMuppet »

wakawaka28 wrote: post #195
ripe wrote: post #166

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> The margins were extremely thin in 2020, and there were many sketchy things going on around mail-in ballots and stuff. These allegations from Trump supporters have been disproved in court many times. What will iy take for you to admit that he's misusing his power to target people who disagree with his election lies?

Considering how ill-treated Trump and his supporters have been and still are by courts, it is no wonder that they don't trust the courts. Regardless of what you or I think, he is going after people he believes are corrupt. The exact same people who targetted him unfairly for years, in some cases. I'm not losing sleep over this.

Will you trust the courts that have Republican-appointed judges? Trump lost in those, too.

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Post by RajT88 »

ndsipa_pomu wrote: post #131
throwaway984393 wrote: post #48

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It might be wiser to emigrate if you cannot trust your fellow citizens and neighbours to care about your country becoming fascist. If you've got brown skin, then you'd be better off leaving on your own terms rather than being exported to a concentration camp in El Salvador.

Having light skin will not save you. It just gets you further back in line.

Re: Deafening Silence from the Cybersecurity Industry

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Post by AnimalMuppet »

deadbabe wrote: post #125
jasonjayr wrote: post #58

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They should NOT delete their post. Do not comply in advance.

Do NOT resist compliance unless you’re willing to go all the way with it. It’s not worth losing your comfortable life.

Does "Give me liberty or give me death" ring a bell?

But yeah, actually meaning that is harder than saying it.

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Post by lukan »

ramesh31 wrote: post #175
phkahler wrote: post #66

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I see that as a broad trend. Very very few people have guiding principles these days. The "problem" with principles is that living by them sometimes means going against something we want right now. People don't want to concede anything, even for their own ideals.

>People don't want to concede anything, even for their own ideals. People cannot concede anything anymore. We are all trapped in survival mode at this point.

In true survival mode, you likely would not hang out around here.
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