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

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    Updated to add at 1700 UTC, April 16

    In an 11th-hour reprieve, the US government last night agreed to continue funding the CVE program.

    Not sure how much more whiplash I can take…

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      They want us to all tune out. This is all by design so we don’t know what’s real or not anymore, then they can get away with even more and nobody will care.

      This is what they’ve been doing for years and years, this is just more of the same.

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        I’m not sure about “they” the US government, but it’s absolutely a Russian/ Authoritarian state playbook.

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          Oh absolutely 100% this has had foreign involvement, the KGB handbook (literally) describes how to plant chaotic agents into a democratic nation’s population to boost both sides of every social debate or argument. The digital age made this the easiest tactic in the world and every nation that’s been “annexed” by Russia experienced this sowing of absolute weaponized bullshit and hate.

          edit: several tankies follow me around downvoting my every comment and throwing tankie memes at me because they seeth when someone says that Russia did a bad thing. It’s quite charming, they can’t do much else because they’re blocked.

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        I think a lot of it is too get and propogate misinformation because some people won’t hear about the 180s and still talk about as if they happened

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      someone told them what the acronym really meant, musta thought it was an EV credit or something

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

    Just in case

    Edit: I’m glad I wasn’t the only one that didn’t know. When the headline reads like everyone should know I felt a little dumb for a second.

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        Cannelloni-Vermicelli Exploration program? You know, to find out what happens if you mix both on the same plate? Will the Italians assassinate you before you can take the first bite? Will the pasta annihilate as soon as they touch? Will it be delicious? Who knows, and now we will never know.

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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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    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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      Repugnicunts own the white house & house because Democraps in power didn’t do their jobs the last four years. Russian influence in elections? Obvious, yet not abated by NSA. Misinformation by Fox & Facebook, X? Also obvious. Also not abated (let’s go after TikTok!).

      Blatant treason? No problem, we’ll let him take presidency after we DON’T CHECK THE VOTING IRREGULARITIES in VOTES COLLECTED BY THE LARGEST CONTRIBUTER TO TRUMP’S CAMPAIGN.

      DNC is a shit-heap.

      AOC & Sanders are lovely exceptions.

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      Democrats could have blocked this.

      This fact is worth aknowledging as we see more and more of these horrible laws pass.

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        They certainly are complicit and not putting up nearly enough resistance. Republicans are still the cause, and democrats are refusing to do anything effectual to stop it. I’d love to eject them all, but my point is that this isn’t “uncle sam”, it’s republicans. And it wouldn’t have happened if the Republicans hadn’t started it.

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          Everyone with eyes can see the Republicans are completely corrupt and primarily responsible.

          Standing by and watching fascism happen while you occupy the influential positions of power that can do something about it is just as bad, because that is only helping the Republicans by blocking resistance.

          Democrats need to stand the fuck up or quit so someone with fucking balls can take their job

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          Changing agreed upon congressional spending requires a law.

          By not forcing an arrest or even fighting the executive order congress is legitimizing and approving the order.

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            This is/was letting a contract expire. It’s not something that was brought up to the level of congress. Up until the last few years of supreme court decisions agencies were founded with broad powers in their domains, including discontinuing sub-programs.

            That’s how it’ supposed to work. None of this has been brought to a vote, which would give Democrats the opportunity to oppose it. For “some reason” congressional Republicans are continuing their prior strategy while being a majority and having the leadership of just, not doing things.

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          Congress controls congressional spending.

          The Democrats should say this is tyrannical and tell the truth to the people that we are at war and we need to remove the Russian assets from power.

          I know you will keep making excuses for them to keep their power while doing nothing to help tho.

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    We as a society need to start defining our damn acronyms. Stop assuming everyone knows what every acronym is, because they do not.

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    False alarm

    Updated to add at 1700 UTC, April 16 In an 11th-hour reprieve, the US government last night agreed to continue funding the CVE program.

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      I don’t think it’s a false alarm, in the sense that it is totally reasonable to be alarmed. They are cutting crucial stuff before they know what it is. There are a lot of things being cut where we’re only going to understand the impact years from now.

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        Sure, but there’s a limited bandwidth for people’s intake of information. This in particular is no longer a cause for alarm.

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        My sense is orgs are correcting now from the over-hiring they did a few years ago. Our InfoSec department blew up over the last 5 years as did many corporations but the problem is in the boom you had, for lack of a better way to put it, a lot of morons snuck in under the auspices of “I took a course I’m a security engineer!”

        Now corporations are moving on to risk mitigation which is a completely different skillset.

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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.