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Brian Hill @brianhill53703.bsky.social · 3h

They fired the CVE people? No more CVEs?

Somebody else is going to have to step up. This country can't be trusted anymore.

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John Skiles Skinner @skiles.blue · 5h

Obviously in addition to attacks from nation states and corporations, we are drowning in insider threats from people like Elon Musk and his bros hauling off government data in laptops, selling it to Palantir.

We are profoundly unprepared and getting worse. We are going to feel it for a long time.

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John Skiles Skinner @skiles.blue · 5h

There is background radiation all over the internet and it feels like war to me. Nearly every website is getting slammed with traffic that appears to be from AI scrapers? But no one really know where it's all coming from. These days you can hardly run a small website without a CDN to shield you.

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John Skiles Skinner @skiles.blue · 5h

Today the administration is also firing IT people across government, in particular at the Treasury. What could go wrong??? All in addition to the DOGE firings.

We are not just failing at cyber preparedness, but also psychological warfare and biological attack. Things are real grim at the CDC, etc.

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John Skiles Skinner @skiles.blue · 5h

Meanwhile Pete Hegseth thinks the wars of the future will be a soldier beauty pageant and pushup contest. Ignoring the actual ways in which war is being fought, right now, in Ukrane, Gaza, and across worldwide computer networks.

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John Skiles Skinner @skiles.blue · 6h

The whole government is un-adapted to this change, and we are firing all the people who could help us adapt. CISA leads the CVE program, which is a worldwide picture of computer security vulnerabilities. We will be blind without it. Not just the US, the world.

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John Skiles Skinner @skiles.blue · 6h

Honestly it's not clear to me why they refuse to defend themselves from repeated cyberattack. But they're not alone. Change is hard! Re-imagining paper-pushing jobs as being a theater of cyberwar is a difficult and unwelcome change.

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John Skiles Skinner @skiles.blue · 6h

The court ignored 18F's recommendations to fix their security, and instead signed a $298 million contract with General Dynamics. I guess why not buy your websites where you buy your M1 Abrams main battle tanks?

The contract does not include cybersecurity services.

Federal Courts Slow to Fix Vulnerable System After Repeated Hacking

www.nytimes.com

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John Skiles Skinner @skiles.blue · 6h

Court administrators refuse to fix it. They keep citing a project with my old org, 18F, way back in 2021. We recommended they start building immediately! Instead the have been "approaching the development and implementation phase" for 4-5 years, building nothing. And lacking proper security.

Recognizing the need to leverage outside expertise in the development of our ITinitiatives, the AO has used many of the recommendations made by the General ServicesAdministration’s 18F organization in 2021 in our preparations for modernizing CM/ECF.Although in your letter you state, “[w]hile the judiciary has solicited advice from leadinggovernment experts on establishing a modern, secure and efficient case management system, thejudiciary thus far has ignored that advice and has made no meaningful progress towards areplacement,” this is simply not the case.The AO remains at work in modernizing CM/ECF to bring it in line with currenttechnology practices. Substantial planning for the modernization effort began in 2022, and weare now approaching the development and implementation phase of the project. We expectimplementation will begin in the next two years in a modular and iterative manner. For the pastfew years we have been analyzing and developing operations standards while testing technicalcomponents. The AO is centralizing the operation and data standards for the system to allow amore secure environment and to ensure local rules and procedures are accommodated.

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John Skiles Skinner @skiles.blue · 6h

Did you know that the federal court system is hacked by the Russians? To the point that the courts are afraid to put documents into their own computer systems.

Exclusive: Chief Justice “Stonewalls Congress" on PACER Hack, Senator Says

The Courts sidestep a congressional request for independent review. Post-hack procedures have significantly reduced transparency in the judicial system.

www.courtwatch.news

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John Skiles Skinner @skiles.blue · 6h

I don't know if there's such a thing as a "world cyberwar" but I think we are in one? and the US is determined to lose it. 🧵

Today the admin is mass-firing the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), the nation's cybersecurity protection across all levels of government.

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Aaron Sojourner @aaronsojourner.org · 1d

If Dems are in control, why are they airing this on the airport TVs?
www.cnn.com/2025/10/09/u...

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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 17h

mshale.com/2025/10/09/a...

African visitors to the U.S. to pay $15,000 visa bonds - Mshale

Citizens of seven African nations will need to post a bond of up to $15,000 to apply for a U.S. visitors visa in a new pilot program that runs through Aug. 2026.

mshale.com

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Techmeme @techmeme.com · 3h

Ten major banks including Bank of America, Goldman Sachs, Deutsche Bank, and UBS announce an early-stage project to explore issuing stablecoins to G7 currencies (Reuters)

Main Link | Techmeme Permalink

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 17h

At least Trump got a free jet and a $5.5 billion golf resort in Qatar, so there’s that.

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George Pearkes @peark.es · 19h

Absolutely going to get fed into an LLM with a "tell me who to fire, I want to reduce headcount at least 50% so I can replace with people who I can rely on ideologically"

Oliver Darcy @oliverdarcy.bsky.social · 19h

Here's the full memo.

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 12h

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BRICS News 📄 @bricsinfo.bsky.social · 4h

JUST IN: Nobel Peace Prize winner Maria Corina Machado calls President Trump and says she is accepting it in honor of him, because he really deserved it.

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Angie Rasmussen @angierasmussen.bsky.social · 6h

I don’t know who needs to hear this but the CDC is being eviscerated right now. America is not going to have any kind of outbreak response capacity after tonight. Americans’ health data is no longer secure. Say goodbye to federal public health in any capacity. It’s a disaster. We won’t recover.

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🫶🏻LaylaBella🫶🏻 @laylabelle3.bsky.social · 8h

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NetworkforDemocracy @simple-truth.bsky.social · 1d

I'll just leave this here. It's long past my bedtime.

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 5h

CNN reporting that 4,000 federal employees were fired on Friday, in HHS, Education, Energy, HUD, Homeland Security, Patent and Trademark Office, EPA.
www.cnn.com/2025/10/10/p...

Trump administration lays off thousands of federal workers during government shutdown | CNN Politics

More than 4,000 federal employees received layoff notices Friday as part of the Trump administration’s broad effort to reshape the government while it remains shutdown, according to a court filing Fri...

www.cnn.com

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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 5h

Fascists like Trump are capitalizing on all of this. In both directions, unfortunately.

Plausibly calling real videos fake is as much a danger as people believing fake videos are real.

Trump in Sept: “If something happens really bad, just blame AI.”

Trump Blames AI for Weird Video of Stuff Being Tossed Out White House Window

gizmodo.com

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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 6h

This is AI.

Jenn Budd @jennbudd.bsky.social · 7h

Seems like they are going after reporters who are women. They hit one w/pepper spray ammo in her car, the WGN reporter and now this.

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Jenn Budd @jennbudd.bsky.social · 7h

WHEN THE FUCK ARE THESE GOVERNORS & MAYORS GOING TO START CHARGING FOR STATE CRIMES?

YOUR LOCAL & STATE POLICE ARE LEGALLY REQUIRED TO INVESTIGATE THESE USE OF FORCE CRIMES BEING COMMITTED BY FEDERAL AGENTS! CALL YOUR MAYORS, GOVERNORS & PROSECUTORS & DEMAND THEY START ENFORCING STATE LAWS.

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