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Why should something of this importance be entrusted to a single government anyways, shouldn't it be distributed/decentralized?
Are you guys free yet?
It’s because the entire administration is a vulnerability
They dont want national security.
They want to steal your property and destroy the country so they can reform it in their image.
Rather they want new vulnerabilities to go right to the market and remain unknown for longer, because that makes the surveillance and other criminal activity by the government easier.
My European friends here: do whatever you can to make EUVD a viable alternative. It's a vulnerability database led by the European Union Agency for Cybersecurity enisa. Since their website is relatively new, you can help by providing feedback though this survey. Yes, the CVE funding has been continued for another year. But a sustainable approach to vulnerability management cannot be dependent on a single government-owned / funded entity any longer! I wish the board members all the best in transferring CVE to a new umbrella organization, but now is a great time to also consider global alternatives.
Oh my God, and then I think of all the hundreds of thousands of veterans who voted for Trump. You did a great job.
Terrifying. Unfortunately it’s difficult to explain to laypeople why the CVE system is so important. Our nation’s leaders certainly won’t get it. Hopefully the experts are able to get through to them when it’s time to renew again. And maybe we can reduce our government dependence a bit by then.
😳 Is the program entirely funded by the US government?
What can EU and other governments/businesses do about this? Or what are they doing?
Yet another great decision by our benevolent leadership
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.
They're Russian puppets, both things are true.
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.
Yep, one of those things the IT department takes care of and most other people just need to know to keep their devices updated.
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'...
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...
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.
I think a lot of it is to get and propogate misinformation because some people won't hear about the 180s and still talk about as if they happened
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.
REPUBLICANS. Not some nebulous "uncle sam". Republicans are turning off funding. They deserve 100% of the blame because they are 100% the cause.
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.
So far Crockett seems like a good 3rd addition to that list of Ocasio-Cortez and Sanders.
This has a CVE score of 10. The next Security Now podcast episode is going to be lit.
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.
We as a society need to start defining our damn acronyms. Stop assuming everyone knows what every acronym is, because they do not.
Lucky for you the linked article explains the acronym!
Wait, you're not one of those people who only reads headlines, are you?
okay, but pretty much anyone in software knows what CVE means, and anyone outside of software doesn’t need to know what CVE means… it’s almost as common in the professional context as CPU
CPU = Chief Party Unicorn
Yup. If you touch anything related to security, you know what a CVE is.
Right before Windows 10 loses security updates too, what a coincidence. Wonder what the Russians are working on...
Well, this way the apartheidist will never see the bugs he's introduced into any of the systems he's broken.
