Trump's workforce cuts blamed as America's cyber edge dulls America's once-ambitious cyber defences are starting to rust, according to the latest annual report from the US Cyberspace Solarium Commission (CSC), which warns that policy momentum has slowed and even slipped backwards thanks to Trump-era workforce and budget cuts. The commission's 2025 Annual Report on Implementation finds …
The conservative right (of which the Trump administration is the most poignant example) has always been anti-intellectual, anti-technology and anti-progress. Demolishing America's edge in any field of technology (be it cybersecurity or the EV industry or anything in between) was and is inevitable.
And it will get a lot worse before it will get better. And it may not get better. Recovering from the current mess will take a lot of time.
"The conservative right (of which the Trump administration is the most poignant example) has always been anti-intellectual, anti-technology and anti-progress. "
Who needs intellectuals, technology, or progress? All a patriotic US man needs is a bible in one hand, and an assault rifle in the other.
/s in case that should be necessary.
Yeah, that madministration's musical score should be that of the movie Deliverance ... one minute the US is enjoying life with friends on a cool canoe trip ... the next it's being thoroughly raped by an Orange mountain man!
It feels like that, and like Marsellus Wallace undergoing Zed's S&M torture, and all because the hair extensions in charge are as empty as a vacuum cleaner in the deepest of outer space ... farther even than the farthest human-made object from Earth!
All you need is prayer.
And I call on the Lord to stop those devilish buffer overflows, and to cast out the demonic SQL injection attacks. But we have brought this upon ourselves. A suspicious-looking man, not carrying a bible, was talking about ess ess haitch demons. Satan's Secret Helpers, is what I call it.
This is funny... but I was banned from my school's computers[1] in 1978 because I dared question the "science" teacher about dinosaurs and evolution.
So this is not something new. On the good side, it motivated my mother to buy me a TRS-80 Model I
I hope Michael Kratzer is burning in hell, if there is one.
[1] a couple TRS-80 Model Is and a Model III. The powah!
"A suspicious-looking man, not carrying a bible, was talking about ess ess haitch demons. Satan's Secret Helpers, is what I call it."
I wonder when someone at a "high" level will notice, or be tipped a wink, re. the FreeBSD logo and how quickly it will be banned in the USA :-)
That might cause some issues with Netflix and some other big names.
It is interesting that such power is attributed to Putin's left hand man.
The sabotage of US institutions is in full swing and security services keep their heads in the sand, hoping their blunders will somehow pass.
Is it really worth sacrificing the country just so that kompromats on the "elites" won't see the light of day?
Given the pettiness of Putin, I am sure the day after Trump (or his couch botherer) stops being useful everything will come out anyways.
Unfortunately all an 'adversary' needs to do to win is to do nothing. Attributing changes to subtle plots by evil masterminds is more the stuff of conspiracy theories and, frankly. if I were an evil mastermind I'd send out strict orders to my minions to back off, just watch and wait.
We're way too focused on trying to find evil masterminds 'over there' when in reality we've got a plentiful supply of our own.
don't make any recommendations then you don't need to worry about folks not implementing them. Works for everything else the Trump is doing, right? If we're not tracking people who are not getting enough food, seems we don't need to track this other stuff either as it is less important.
The 100% tarrif announcement this morning has been put on hold after he had a very good phone call with a Mr Anon. Great guy,great guy, he told him things and they did a deal. Mr Anon, a great guy, said he'll have a word with other great hackers in a few months time, so I did a great deal that said we won't add tariffs for another six months, so in three months time, we'll see, maybe we'll need tariffs again, but in eleven months we'll see what happens. Great guy, can't wait to see what happens in the next four months.
1. Shape behavior. The United States must work with allies and partners to promote responsible behavior in cyberspace.
2. Deny benefits. The United States must deny benefits to adversaries who have long exploited cyberspace to their advantage, to American disadvantage, and at little cost to themselves. This new approach requires securing critical networks in collaboration with the private sector to promote national resilience and increase the security of the cyber ecosystem.
3. Impose costs. The United States must maintain the capability, capacity, and credibility needed to retaliate against actors who target America in and through cyberspace.
Not all of us. Unfortunately due to an unforeseen massive increase in village idiots (probably due to acetaminophen and circumcision) the senate, house, and the royal executive branch with the full acquiescence of six members of the Supine Court king orange poop bomber (that was a light load for him) holds the good people in the US at bay. For the moment. There have been signs that even some of the most ardent supporters are beginning to have the mere thought of even beginning to speculate about the merest possibility crossing their minds that maybe he's not in it for them after all
Yeah, I was temporarily blinded by the idiocy. It comes so fast and furious these days that I have trouble keeping an even keel which occasionally leads to AI hallucinations of normalcy. "“We are now cruising at a level of two to the power of twenty-five thousand to one against and falling, and we will be restoring normality just as soon as we are sure what is normal anyway. "
I realised they were clueless parasites when they started flopping around about CISA being critical etc. Then ranting that lack of DEI etc cripples security.
Just another member of the parasite contingent, weeping and wailing and trying to get their snouts properly back in the trough.
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