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Elite Pentagon Unit Resigns En Masse After Clashing With DOGE thedailybeast.com/elite-pentag

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Clive Thompson

Interesting analysis of China's internal discussions about the country's reliance on US technology ...

... from 2005 to 2022

The researchers (including @henryfarrell) found two inflection points where Chinese authorities got worried about their exposure to US tech

2013: Snowden reveals NSA intrusions into global tech
2018: US gov't threatens ZTE and Huawei

... and from then on, Chinese authorities say "we need to be tech independent"

programmablemutter.com/p/why-c

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Kim Zetter

Chris Krebs has quit his job at SentinalOne to launch a legal and public relations fight against Trump and the presidential memo Trump he signed against Krebs last week. "Krebs said he understood why some have kept a low profile and tried not to further anger the president. But he said he disagreed with that approach. "I don’t think this lay-low-and-hope-this-blows-over approach is the right one for the moment we’re in."

Miles Taylor who was also targeted by Trump said "the memos targeting him and Krebs were 'punishment for dissent' and that he too planned to fight back.... 'How we respond will set the tone inevitably for how others targeted by these EOs decide to respond.”

wsj.com/politics/policy/chris-

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Mike Csees

Do you have thoughts on the "Take it Down" bill in the US? @eff does.. needs more work.. eff.org/deeplinks/2025/04/cong

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Björn Brembs

DOGE handing over government logins to Russia is not a scandal because everybody was expecting it anyway?
"Within minutes after DOGE accessed the NLRB's systems, someone with an IP address in Russia started trying to log in [...]. The attempts were "near real-time," [...]. Those attempts were blocked, but they were especially alarming. Whoever was attempting to log in was using one of the newly created DOGE accounts — and the person had the correct username and password"
npr.org/2025/04/15/nx-s1-53558

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Lawfare

Yesterday, Anna Bower and Roger Parloff attended a hearing on the government’s efforts, or lack thereof, to “facilitate” the return of Kilmar Abrego Garcia, a Maryland resident who was wrongly removed to El Salvador.

After the hearing, they sat down with Benjamin Wittes to discuss what happened: youtube.com/live/TWEHwgAWQGw?f

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BrianKrebs

UPDATE: The CVE board today announced the creation of non-profit entity called The CVE Foundation that will continue the program's work under a new, unspecified funding mechanism and organizational structure.

"Since its inception, the CVE Program has operated as a U.S. government-funded initiative, with oversight and management provided under contract," the press release reads. "While this structure has supported the program's growth, it has also raised longstanding concerns among members of the CVE Board about the sustainability and neutrality of a globally relied-upon resource being tied to a single government sponsor."

The organization's website, thecvefoundation.org, is less than a day old and currently hosts no content. The announcement said the foundation would release more information about its structure and transition planning in the coming days.

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE April 16,2025 CVE Foundation Launched to Secure the Future of the CVE Program Bremerton, Washington] - The CVE Foundation has been formally established to ensure the long-term viabily, stability, and independence of the Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE) Program, a critica pillar of the global cybersecurity infrastructure for 25 years. Since ts inception, the CVE Program has operated as U.S. government. funded nitive, with oversight and management provided under contact. While ths structure has supported the prograny’s growth, it has alo raised longstanding concems among members of the CVE Board shout the sustainability and neutrality of globally relicd-upon resource being ted 0 a single ovemment sponsor. “This concern has become urgent following an April 15, 2025 leter from MITRE notifying the ‘CVE Board that the U.S. government docs not intend 0 renew ts contract for managing the program. While we had hoped this day would not come, we have been preparing fo this possibility. In response, a coalition of longtime, active CVE Bosrd members have spent the past year developing a strategy o transition CVE to dedicated, non-profit foundation. The news CVE. Foundation wil focus solly on continuing the mission of delivering high-quality vulnerability identification and maintaining th integrity and availabilty of CVE data for defenders worldwide,
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I boosted several posts about this already, but since people keep asking if I've seen it....

MITRE has announced that its funding for the Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE) program and related programs, including the Common Weakness Enumeration Program, will expire on April 16. The CVE database is critical for anyone doing vulnerability management or security research, and for a whole lot of other uses. There isn't really anyone else left who does this, and it's typically been work that is paid for and supported by the US government, which is a major consumer of this information, btw.

I reached out to MITRE, and they confirmed it is for real. Here is the contract, which is through the Department of Homeland Security, and has been renewed annually on the 16th or 17th of April.

usaspending.gov/award/CONT_AWD

MITRE's CVE database is likely going offline tomorrow. They have told me that for now, historical CVE records will be available at GitHub, github.com/CVEProject

Yosry Barsoum, vice president and director at MITRE's Center for Securing the Homeland, said:

“On Wednesday, April 16, 2025, funding for MITRE to develop, operate, and modernize the Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE®) Program and related programs, such as the Common Weakness Enumeration (CWE™) Program, will expire. The government continues to make considerable efforts to support MITRE’s role in the program and MITRE remains committed to CVE as a global resource.”

MITRE | SOLVING PROBLEMS FOR A SAFER WORLD" April 15, 2025 Dear CVE Board Member, We want to make you aware of an important potential issue with MITRE’s enduring support to CVE. On Wednesday, April 16, 2025, the current contracting pathway for MITRE to develop, operate, and modernize CVE and several other related programs, such as CWE, wil expire. The government continues to make considerable efforts to continue MITRE’ role in support of the program If a break in service were to occur, we anticipate multiple impacts to CVE, including deterioration of national vulnerability databases and advisories, tool vendors, incident response operations, and all manner of critical infrastructure. MITRE continues to be committed to CVE as a global resource. We thank you as a member of the CVE Board for your continued partnership. Sincerely, Yosry Barsoum VP and Director Center for Securing the Homeland (CSH) 7515 Colshire Drive ® McLean, VA 22102-7539 ® (703) 983-6000
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Mary Nelson

Recommended blog post:

State Terror
A brief guide for Americans
by Timothy Snyder

Excerpt in screenshot.

#USpol #USpolitics #RuleofLaw #TrumpAdministration

snyder.substack.com/p/state-te

In the United States, we are governed by a Constitution. Basic to the Constitution is habeas corpus, the notion that the government cannot seize your body without a legal justification for doing so. If that does not hold, then nothing else does. If we have the law, then violence may not be committed by one person against another on the basis of namecalling or strong feelings. This applies to everyone, above all to the president, whose constitutional function is to enforce the laws. Trump spoke of asking Attorney General Pam Bondi to find legal ways to abduct Americans and leave them in foreign concentration camps. But by "legal" what is meant are ways of escaping law, not applying it. It is that anti-constitutional escapism that enables abuse. State terror involves not just the malignant development of state organs of oppression, such as masked men in black vans, but also the withdrawal of the state from its role as a guardian of law. What aspiring tyrants present as "strength,’ the ability to terrorize innocent people, rests on what might be seen as a more fundamental weakness, which is the withdrawal of the state from the principle of the rule of law. When we have law, we are all stronger; when we lack law, everyone is weaker except for the very few who can direct the coercive power of the state against the rest of us.
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Techmeme

Similarweb: Twitter referral traffic to 12 major news outlets fell 12% on average from November 2022 to December 2022; only traffic to NY Post and Fox News grew (Digiday)

digiday.com/media/publishers-l
techmeme.com/230118/p34#a23011

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Coywolf

Buffer’s popular social media management software can now schedule and post to Mastodon servers. Coywolf has a first look at what it's like to connect and publish posts from Buffer to Mastodon.

coywolf.news/social/buffer-add

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JeriLRyan

A TRUE public servant and American hero…

Fauci's warning to America: 'We're living in a progressively anti-science era and that's a very dangerous thing'

apple.news/AvchKyb-1TxKbXwOKT7

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Kashmir Hill

After the report about the Girl Scout mom getting booted from Radio City Music Hall, I spent the last two days reporting out the use of facial recognition technology by the Madison Square Garden empire to keep hundreds of lawyers that work for firms that have sued it from attending concerts, sporting events and shows. It is a radical use of the technology by a private company and I am truly shocked by how forthright MSG is about its real-world block list. nytimes.com/2022/12/22/nyregio

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Maria Popova

“That something exists outside ourselves and our preoccupations, so near, so readily available, is our greatest blessing.”

In praise of walking themarginalian.org/2022/12/18/

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Electronic Frontier Foundation

New York is one step away from setting a new standard for the right to repair. Tell Governor Hochul to sign this bill! act.eff.org/action/new-yorkers

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Rob

#TomLehrer has placed his entire song and lyric catalogue into the #PublicDomain.
tomlehrersongs.com/

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Fasih Rana

Should all Journalists show solidarity with the banned accounts on Twitter and stop posting on Twitter?

It is a few today that fell foul of Elon Musk, it could be you tomorrow over something else.

If you see this post, vote and boost it.

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fedi :fediverse:

Twitter 's attempts to suppress Mastodon by claiming it is malware, by silencing journalists and by *checks notes* "not allowing hyperlinks on the internet" are failing. 😂

At least four thousand people an hour are joining, a rate three times higher than yesterday.

Picture source: @mastodonusercount@bitcoinhackers.org

#Twitter #Mastodon #TwitterMigration

A graph showing a week's worth of data of new signups across fedi. The past twenty-four hours are three times the previous rate. Total users now 8.5 million.
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Karoli

Please, whatever you do, don’t delete your twitter account. Make it private and delete the app. But if you delete/deactivate your account, you’re inviting squatters to take over your name after 30 days. #MyAdvice

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Steve Herman

A number of chocolates tested by @ConsumerReports@twitter.com find high levels of cadmium and/or lead. consumerreports.org/health/foo

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