Krebs throws himself on the grenade, resigns from SentinelOne after Trump revokes clearances Chris Krebs, the former head of the US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) and a longtime Trump target, has resigned from SentinelOne following a recent executive order that targeted him and revoked the security clearances of everybody at the company. Krebs, a Republican who Trump appointed to lead US …
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Life is not like art, where you can have a happy ending. There are no happy endings in life, courtesy of the grim reaper, and the bad guys always win.
Trump is going the full dictator, targeting individuals, rewriting history.
Whilst wealthy and powerful Americans will be happy to be wealthier and more powerful, bagging freebies chasing taxiff manipulation, they might not enjoy being wealthy and powerful quite so much in the America that Trump is creating. Maybe they will just all move abroad.
Pessimism? You didn't notice we're back in a 1925-1935 sort of thing?
By which I don't mean to imply they should be allowed to win easy. But the risk that they win, even for just a decade or two, is not pessimism at work.
This is repeating what happened in Germany 90 years ago.
The world needs to step up and start offering sanctuary to the vulnerable before the USA prevents escape by cancelling travel documents(*), etc
I'm aware that this is happening to some extent with French universities offering placements to USA academics but it needs to be ramped up
(*) NB: This may have already started happening - and not recently. Shortly after 9/11 a whitehat security researcher I know claimed to have been pulled from the queue when travelling to Canada and warned not to attempt to exit the USA or he would be arrested. As a one-off that may be fabricated but these claims have kept resurfacing from time to time over the last 25 years
The USA has been sleepwalking into fascism for a _very_ long time. Trump is merely the latest symptom of underlaying malice and malaise - and has manifested in a way that can't simply be handwaved off
Mr Krebs posted this in response to Mark Hamill’s translation of a tweet by Trump about his firing.
In defending democracy, do or do not, there is no try. This is the way. #Protect2020 @HamillHimself @PedroPascal1
https://x.com/C_C_Krebs/status/1328953421882413056
A friend who is a Yank and a Yankees fan and a republican said at the time
It's all there, black and white, clear as crystal! You didn’t get as many votes, nor electoral college votes, so you get nothing! You lose! Good day, sir!
I raise my coffee mug in salute to Mr. Krebs and pray for his success and the strength to carry on. Trump really wants to be a dictator as seen by just about every news story posted about him.... some in praise and many in condemnation.
Icon... I find this whole administration to be very worrying for the US and I'm sad about it.
It will doubtlessly be a long and expensive fight
Rubio has been suggesting that the US is going to give up on the peace Donald Trump claimed he could bring to Ukraine in 24 hours because it's taking too long - possibly because Ukraine could see no obvious advantage in trading their sovereignty for Trump's Nobel Peace Prize.
I wonder if the administration will tire as quickly in its pursuit of Trump's personal grudges as it has in its pursuit of matters of international importance?
Why should I now trust SentinelOne anyway?
Presumably to keep their security clearance they have to abide by the Presidential line. So if they announce that China-very-very-bad is responsible for an attack or that an ongoing attack from Russia is fake-news, why am I paying them if they are just a replay of Trump's Twitter feed ?
"But if there is fatal political pressures on security US companies then they are no longer trustworthy"
Neither are any "deals" made with Trump. He's demonstrated time after time that any deal he claims as "great" will be flushed down the toilet as soon as he sees an advantage in doing so, as Krebs found out the moment he disagreed with Trump.
FTFY
It certainly does. He's also going after the forensic analyst who looked at Hunter Biden's laptop (see comment under article) which is odd because he apparently delivered what was required to start a case.
The problem isn't that Trump is stupid
It's that he's vindictive and stupid.
It's the malicious vindictiveness which is dangerous and it would be vastly worse if he actually possessed impulse control - as it stands his tendency to rev his mouth at the slightest opportunity to hear his own whiny(*) voice has actually proven beneficial to those who have to try and counter him
I'm willing to bet that he spent extensive time as a child pulling wings off (butter)flies and then laughing at them before graduating to poisoning puppies and kicking kittens
(*) Yes it is whiny. He SOUNDS like a spoiled toddler, not a functional adult. It's like fingernails on a chalkboard
Honestly, his gloating and capriciousness would be sorely pushing credibility as a D&D BBEG or Big Bad Evil Wannabe, having started off as a Cartman wannabe: https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/BigBadWannabe
Someone is enabling this within the existing stuctures. We've known of his mafia money laundering links (NYC and Russian) for over 40 years and he really does seem to be the smoke and mirros distraction from somehting MUCH nastier going on behind the curtains
Presumably to keep their security clearance they have to abide by the Presidential line.
Which part of "a recent executive order that targeted him and revoked the security clearances of everybody at the company" was unclear to you?
They now don't have any security clearance to keep!
According to the original article, the Govt. security clearances only applied to a very few staff and accounted for a small part of their business. They can, if they choose, simply not do that business any more and try to remain independent and trustworthy. Whether that's possible in the face of a vengeful and spiteful President is another matter.
Individually, as citizens or companies, its difficult to push back. The assaults on us are coming fast from all directions, too fast for even a now concerned media to keep up with (and, I'd guess, its being done like that "by design"). But as Havard has taught us eventually the Administration comes up against something that's too big, too well endowed and just plain to clever for them to easily intimidate. Havard's response to the Administrations letter (itself a masterpiece of Doublespeak -- look it up) was to politely, but firmly, tell them to FO. The Administration immediately doubled down by threatening not just funding but the withdrawal of all student visas and the refusal to grant any in the future. They followed this by threatening to get the IRS to revoke its tax-exempt status. Its stood firm so now the Administration's next move is to say that the original letter was a 'mistake' that was sent out by underlings. They're really not fooling anyone, especially anyone who's been a parent.
The lesson here is that to stand up to this bunch of gangsters you need deep pockets and a lot of willpower. Even then dealing with this bunch of gangsters is going to be a long, tedious, fight and its going to cost. But then that's the price we're paying for being careless and taking our democracy for granted.
If he has any sense, he will leave the country. We know where this dance ends
History my not repeat but it likes to rhyme a lot - and the groups behind what's happening now were heavy backers of American Naziism in the 1930s, as well as being responsible for the tieup between American corporations + evangelists in December 1940
I don't think they were intending the plane to arrive at the other coast before turning back in their example. However, you could cross the Bering strait, which would make the Pacific Ocean an option if you need to make a trans-oceanic flight in that time. True, it's mostly cheating by doing the flying over land to make the ocean bit as fast as possible, but you can manage it.
Except that you're going to cross the date line the wrong way and loose a day along the way. (ok, if you nitpick only 20 hours... at the time of this post it's 9:45 AM in Alaska, April 18th, and 5:45 AM in Russian Kamtchaka on April 19th )
So your hour flight over the Berign straight is going to be very long ( actually it doesn't even need to be a flight... a boat between the Greater and the Smaller Diomede Islands will do and be shorter as there less than 5 miles between both )
Here ya go:
Trump administration overrode Social Security staff to list immigrants as dead - The Washington Post
If you're declared dead it doesn't just affect your social security, your bank accounts, credit cards, etc... are frozen too.
This is being done to legal foreign residents. And once the courts give up trying to get the Trump administration to stop doing this and to fix the damage already done to these people, then they can start on US citizens.
Not remotely. He's rich by normal standards, but only because he inherited a shitload of money from his father.
That's not the damning thing. The damning thing is that he's not a *lot* richer than he is.
This is the guy who built his entire public persona on being a "dealmaker". Who spent his life making alleged deals- and even more time boasting about them. Someone who's completely unimpeded by anything resembling a conscience, honour or empathy and quite happy to use that and the imbalance of financial power to bully people to get whatever he wants. Someone we know has been prepared to get involved with some exceptionally shady people and financial arrangements over the years.
And yet, despite all that effort on his part, it added up to nothing- it's generally estimated that Trump today is ultimately no richer than he would have been had he just plonked his entire inheritance in a tracker fund and spent his entire, worthless life working on his golf putt instead.
Sad!
"But is he the richest scumbag in the world?"
Hard to tell if you're talking about the Convicted Criminal in Chief or the Musk idiot.
If Musk, then without a shadow of a doubt, and by a wide margin in the rich department (on paper, anyway).
If the CCinC, then no on the rich, not even close ... but a very close second on the scumbag.
... gaudeamus igitur ipso facto (I think). "It's a fight for democracy" (yes!)!
⁽¹⁾⁻ from Georges Brassens' "Les copains d'abord", great song!
It's the motto of Paris, a city of revolution. And yer actual Latin, unlike Illegitimi non carborundum. Interestingly, it seems to be the Ten Thousand Men of Harvard who may be forming a genuine opposition, unlike the millions of "ordinary" Americans who have been hording weapons ostensibly against the return of a King and yet seem unmoved by his arrival. But Harvard has a massive endowment, like Brassens's gorilla, to draw attention to its cause. Hopefully, on this occasion, they have reason to show the judge more respect as he is their only - and perhaps forlorn - hope.
against the return of a King
I should think George III even in his lunacy† would be a tad more rational than the current Dufenal I.
Mad George was hardly an absolute monarch and arguably much of the beef the colonials had was with the policies of British government which were those of the parliament not just the addled ravings of the King. That situation is reversed in contemporary Trumpisstan.
(1) the footnote was missing but the translation "[She] is tossed [by the waves], but does not sink" was likely intended.
† as a student the suggestion that GRIII suffered from acute intermittent porphyria was doing the rounds not sure this is still the case.
Anybody who has any doubts about Trump's thirst for vengeance should read this:
@Thought About IT,
Thank you for the enlightening article. I am a never-T****er who has a Pritzker (J.B.) as my state's governor. I was suspicious of J.B., and preferred another candidate the first time he ran, but have been very pleasantly surprised by his governance, especially in financially improving a state (wrecked by both parties, to be fair) that was junk bond status. If J.B. harbors presidential ambitions I would be sorry to lose him as governor but think he would do well as a president.
"Krebs, through CISA, falsely and baselessly denied that the 2020 election was rigged and stolen, including by inappropriately and categorically dismissing widespread election malfeasance and serious vulnerabilities with voting machines," [said] the presidential missive.
So they are still saying that the 2020 election was stolen.
So why are they saying that Biden's pardons are invalid because they were signed by an autopen?
Surely they should be invalid because he was never President?
Idiots.
Those with foreign-sounding names to speak up and insist that they are dead. The incentives are massive: no tax to pay!
Hmm, Musk could play that card himself, one day.
Will Trump backtrack because of all that lost revenue?
EDIT (My comment should be threaded under those discussing revoking SSN's for obviously alive citizens).
Let me start of with I am a HUGE supporter of The Register and normally find them generally non-partisan and I believe they try to stick to the facts as they see them BUT...they disappoint me with this article and specifically its title "Krebs throws himself on grenade..." The Reg is fully aware that Chris Krebs and Brian Krebs (of Krebs on Security ) are two different people and while they are in the same field using a play on their names rubs me the wrong way. The Reg knows full well that some people just scan headlines and skim articles and that they will assume that this is Brian Krebs making this sacrifice. Brian Krebs is a beloved cybersecurity cornerstone, Chirs Krebs is a corporate executive. I wish the article would have made that distinction. --Mule
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