this must have been embedded in my subconscious
Sickos
joined 4 years ago
This is sticking your dick in a toaster levels of stupid
wild doomer speculation
Oh, oh shit this might be followed by a play to make it illegal to report vulnerabilities to other countries.
Ooooooooooooooooooh shiiiiiiiiiiit that's not good
Like, for anybody who already understands that everything to do with computers talking to each other is basically held together with spit and tape, they're defunding the tape
CVE is THE definitive central source for "fix this potential hack now plz"--at least for things the US thought was too dangerous to keep secret for their own sneaky purposes. Oldheads may remember getting alerts from CERT.
I assume, being a public-facing service, that it wasn't profitable and therefore it's inefficient.
Like, EU CVD/CSIRT will undoubtedly step in to close that gap, but burning this is insane.
Amerikkkans
I'd be a lot more patient helping grandma along if I was gonna get ten thousand dollars out of it
It's back https://www.techradar.com/pro/security/funding-for-the-critical-cve-security-detection-system-renewed-just-hours-before-deadline