Funding is irrelevant and a distraction. Dismantling civil
cybersecurity is a way to expose a population to influence and other
harms that necessitate more "strong-man" solutions later [0,1]. Only
after they've destroyed "cyber defenses" can they claim a crisis and
declare "cybsersecurity is dead, long live the new cybersecurity".
And you can be damn sure it won't be security for you.
Bit of a sparse article. The near-miss of CVE funding is certainly tragic, but there's no mention of how they siphoned data from the NLRB and locked everyone out of their accounts, and give only a quick mention to cutting federal grants for cybersecurity and CISA's funding. There's a lot more ammo out there to show how incompetent the Trump administration and Musk's DOGE team actually is.
Crazy idea: Decentralize the CVE across many nations so that no single organization has the power to eliminate it.
Even if the US doesn't play ball, it's a public database right? Is there anything stopping the UN, EU, UK, Australia, etc from copying it and establishing their own joint CVE?
"The Washington Monument syndrome, also known as the Mount Rushmore syndrome or the firemen first principle, is a term used to describe the phenomenon of government agencies in the United States cutting the most visible or appreciated service provided by the government when faced with budget cuts."
> It's the global catalog that helps everyone – security teams, software vendors, researchers, governments – organize and talk about vulnerabilities using the same reference system
so why was only the US federal government funding it, especially if it wasn't expensive to maintain?
this is the follow up question to every headline and won't be seen as controversial later, so why bother treating it as controversial to say now
America's cyber defenses are being dismantled from the inside
(theregister.com)343 points by rntn 23 April 2025 | 200 comments
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[0] https://cybershow.uk/blog/posts/computer-security-is-a-polit...
[1] https://cybershow.uk/blog/posts/usw/
Even if the US doesn't play ball, it's a public database right? Is there anything stopping the UN, EU, UK, Australia, etc from copying it and establishing their own joint CVE?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Washington_Monument_syndrome
so why was only the US federal government funding it, especially if it wasn't expensive to maintain?
this is the follow up question to every headline and won't be seen as controversial later, so why bother treating it as controversial to say now