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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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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.

From a regime that has a long history of lies, misdirection, and attempts to repress our basic freedoms as a nation and a people. This is why I write my Congress critters at least a month complaining. I know one letter only pushes the needle a tiny bit, but after a lot we'll eventually get them to realize that Congress is the real power and not the dime store dictator in the White House.

Re: Deafening Silence from the Cybersecurity Industry

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"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…

We need to pass a law that makes it obvious that ANY executive order that clashes with a law that has been passed disagree, that the law wins. I know that's already the case, but it looks like it needs to be made a law so that it can go in front of SCOTUS. If a president has an issue with a law, he can always use his influence to see that a new law is passed or that it gets challenged in court; he can't simply issue an Executive order to override it.

I've also been imploring my friends to go vote, make sure their ID is in order because the current regime is going to do everything in their power to make sure than anyone under 65 has a tough time voting

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.

plenty are, it's just major outlets won't do anything to stir the pot. the "both sides are the same" execs at big news outlets won't let them.

Re: Deafening Silence from the Cybersecurity Industry

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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.

They are actively attacking free speech right now with colleges, dem states are threatened if they don't follow MAGA doctrine, same with cities, Trump threatens law firms who worked against him in the past. People elected him to lower prices and have business friendly policies, not to wreck our reputation in the world and cause the next great depression. You should be looking for new news stories I think. They are constantly calling our elections as fake and full of fraud when in truth we have some of the most secure elections in the world.

Re: Deafening Silence from the Cybersecurity Industry

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> a black man in the white house and women on the presidential ballot. The retrograde prejudices so deeply ingrained in the country’s memome that we are still in the throes of an anaphylactic reaction to an acute melatonin allergy. This is the most obscenely wrong take I can imagine, and I'll gladly explain why I say that. Your AI-generated response plainly ignores a country in love with Michael Jordan and Whitney Ho…

It’s interesting that you suppose my writing is AI generated? I’ve not seen AI that writes that way, but I suppose you might set it up to emulate a certain style. I’ve also been accused of using AI because I used an em dash. In that case, I guess it’s almost true, because my spell check would have put it there in place of space-dash-space. FWIW I am morally opposed to publishing AI slop where it might enter the publi…

> while I find my local models useful for organizing thoughts and prepping documents

What did you train them on, just your own docs?

Re: Deafening Silence from the Cybersecurity Industry

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implicitly lumps Trump himself in as a "malicious actor". Trump is a malicious actor. He literally tried to overthrow democracy on January 6! Maybe not something I would want said or repeated by my administration either, disregarding the veracity. Congratulations on empathizing with an authoritarian. in light of the DOGE findings regarding 150+ year olds collecting social security Stop being so gullible. https://www.…

> Trump is a malicious actor. He literally tried to overthrow democracy on January 6! > Congratulations on empathizing with an authoritarian. It speaks to the strength of different agency administrators if they can walk into the next oval office, grab the duly elected President by the arm, and say "stop hitting yourself, stop hitting yourself" over and over again. Putting a stop to that wouldn't be so controversial,…

A lot of words to say absolutely nothing.

Stop being so gullible.

Re: Deafening Silence from the Cybersecurity Industry

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> Trump is a malicious actor. He literally tried to overthrow democracy on January 6! > Congratulations on empathizing with an authoritarian. It speaks to the strength of different agency administrators if they can walk into the next oval office, grab the duly elected President by the arm, and say "stop hitting yourself, stop hitting yourself" over and over again. Putting a stop to that wouldn't be so controversial,…

A lot of words to say absolutely nothing. Stop being so gullible.

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Re: Deafening Silence from the Cybersecurity Industry

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

> Trump is a malicious actor. He literally tried to overthrow democracy on January 6! > Congratulations on empathizing with an authoritarian. It speaks to the strength of different agency administrators if they can walk into the next oval office, grab the duly elected President by the arm, and say "stop hitting yourself, stop hitting yourself" over and over again. Putting a stop to that wouldn't be so controversial,…

A lot of words to say absolutely nothing. Stop being so gullible.

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