Because vulnerability management has nothing to do with national security, right?

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    It’s not Uncle Sam, or the USA shutting this down. It’s the Republican Administration. They’ve been empowered by the Republican led Congress to shut down anything it doesn’t like, understand, or benefit from.

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    Right before Windows 10 loses security updates too, what a coincidence. Wonder what the Russians are working on…

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    REPUBLICANS. Not some nebulous “uncle sam”. Republicans are turning off funding. They deserve 100% of the blame because they are 100% the cause.

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    We need a alterntive that doesn’t rely on the U.S.A it can be from any country

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    CVE program – the centralized Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures database of product security flaws

    Just in case

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    For most people the consequences of this action will be too far away to understand the connection, so it’s a pretty good target for the US Republican party.

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    The EU needs to start planning now (well, really, needed to start planning in 2016) to replace every critical system that relies in any way on the US government.

    If you think of money invested vs. return on government programs like this, the benefit is incredible. That it’s being discontinued is obvious proof that the US is run by the agents of its own destruction and cannot be relied upon in any way: not as a supplier of military equipment, or information technology, or economic codependency.

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      They’re doing so much of this shit quietly, but when you start to put each piece together it should be frightening to anyone that doesn’t believe Russia is our BFF.

      In late Feb, just after the whole Zelenskyy White House visit, Hegseth issued an order to Cyber Command to halt all planning against Russia including cybersecurity offensive strategies.

      He gave the order to Commander Timothy Haugh, who is also head of the National Security Agency. Haugh told the outgoing director of operations, and cyber command begun putting together an official document of why this is a very bad idea.

      I missed this completely until yesterday, but it turns out that Haugh and his NSA deputy were both suddenly ousted from their positions less than 2 weeks ago.

      No reason was given they were just told “your services are no longer required.” Apparently Laura Loomer requested Trump have them removed and made some vague accusations against them bc they had been installed under Biden.

      I admit I hadn’t heard of CVE program before today. Since we are BFFs now and Russia is “totally not a threat” to the U.S., I guess it’s supposed to be ok because friends share everything. But wouldn’t this also make us incredibly more vulnerable to China and any other country?

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    Imagine being one of the tech billionaires who Trump bankrolled and he does this- basically handing out wrenches for people to throw.

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    On the bright side, at least our upcoming American cyberpunk dystopia is now more likely to feature a greater prevelance of lone wolf, broke, two bit hackers as a semi-viable lifestyle/‘career path’…

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      It shouldn’t surpris too much given Mike Pondsmith’s general record of clairvoyance that NetWatch is a European Corp.

      And, no, “Vos videmus” totally isn’t a creepy motto. Based out of London, one could almost think that it’s the London CCTV system turned sentient AI.

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        All that has to happen for a ‘Blackwall’ analagous scenario is enough undersea cables get cut/sabotaged.

        Then you’re looking at a much more localized internet, where actually having a reliable or high bandwidth connection to a very far away place requires you to either have an insane jerry rigged solution, or a lot of money to pay for an increasing valuable, still existing intercontinental line.

        Of course, we very much could also end up with a more intentionally constructed type of widespread firewalling as well… they already exist.

        China’s great firewall, tons of other countries that have internet and/or social media killswitches…

        … And we are already seeing massive bandwidth from corpo AI scrapers trying to harvest data to train their AIs leading to people making new ways to detect, block, and or trap them in infinite loops, to save their own servers from going down.

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        … As soon as you find documents from the founding fathers addressing best practices and policies regarding cybersecurity, let me know.

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    One can only conclude that either this is the latest step in a deliberate effort to sabotage the functioning of the US (and by extension much of the west), or just another monumentally stupid idea brought to life by their limitless incompetence.

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      us capitalism has nowhere else to expand. its eating itself now.

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      this is the latest step in a deliberate effort to sabotage the functioning of the US

      You got that right.

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      I suspect that the administration that asked their people to stop focusing on Russia in the cyber space is deliberately trying to weaken our security posture in relation to said country. This confirms it.

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      I’m half-sure Trump put price tags on everything in the WH and every time you see a stupid thing in US foreign policy (local is guided by P25), you may hear Donald’s OF donation bell ring.

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      mitre also has some prime real estate adjacent to mclean metro at tysons east. probably enough for a golf course/country club if you razed everything and took the adjacent park lands.