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[–] [email protected] 26 points 23 hours ago

they have actually prepared for this

https://www.thecvefoundation.org/

[–] [email protected] 64 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

What an astoundingly stupid idea. I can't think of many programs that deliver more value per dollar for everyone who develops or uses technology than the CVE program. This administration keeps raising the bar for stupidity.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 day ago

But CVE hurts Trump's people, the scam artists and spammers and of course his buddies in Russia.

[–] [email protected] 53 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Let me guess, DOGE bros didn't know what it was?

[–] [email protected] 44 points 1 day ago (3 children)

DOGE tech bros 100% know what it is. But they're also probably the kind of devs that hate fixing issues surfaced by CVE's in dependencies. Have seen my fair share of these types of 'engineers'. Same kind of folks who see qa and testing as the enemy.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 day ago (1 children)

They're script kiddies, they use CVE to figure out which hacking scripts to use to break into servers that haven't been updated in years.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago

I don't think they're this savvy, this is likely just another one of Putin's orders.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 21 hours ago

I'm honestly not so sure, they are really clueless when it comes to technology.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 22 hours ago

I was more implying that if this blows up in the their face, the public statement will be it was a mistake, made from ignorance, to evade responsibility. Sorry if that didn't come off clearly. Making sure implication gets across online sucks.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 14 hours ago

They absolutely know, they want to avoid the accountability of acknowledging and fixing vulnerabilities, which is why they're trying to kill CVE.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 day ago

This is one of the worst acts of DOGE, fucking assholes.

[–] [email protected] 26 points 1 day ago (1 children)

All part of the plan to let Russian hackers take whatever they want.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 day ago

China: Don't mind if I do!

[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 day ago
[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 day ago

This is an oddly close timing with 4chan getting hacked and leaking a bunch of user and mod accounts with .gov emails in them

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 day ago

Trump was so right - I'm very sick of "winning".

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 day ago

“Stupid face, you don’t need that nose!” - America

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Can the EU 'buy' Mitre and continue the programme in Europe away from Russo-American hands?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

The site needs to be scraped asap, and a clone needs to happen asap.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 21 hours ago

One of the benefits of it being such a widely used system is that we don't need to make a special effort to do so. It's already been aggregated and copied around as part of routine optimization by any number of security conscious engineers who aren't trying to make the world a worse place.

I've personally worked on at least three systems at two employers where making an automated copy of the data regularly was just an early optimization and matter of etiquette.

It's a good opportunity to learn how to do it though! You have or can get all the tools you need on your computer.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

No. MITRE is a federally funded research and development center (FFRDC). The only customer it's allowed to have is the US government.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 17 hours ago

Fair enough. They should scrape all data, and fork a new version then.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago

This is awful.