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Submission + - The CVE database almost wasgone. Now 11 months left (theregister.com)

Submitted by gavron on Thursday April 24, 2025 @08:33AM

gavron writes: The CVE list contains over 25 years of security vulnerabilities. Stephen J Vaughn-Nichols explains why it's important to ALL countries and ALL ITSEC people. It also almost just went away when rabid DOGGIES tried to cut it.

It also only has 11 months left to live based on funding, so FDJT may try and cripple it again. It helps EVERYONE and only hurts blackhat hackers. Unfortunately nobody in Congress understands anything technical (except for Ron Widen) and they're too busy dismantling their own least favorite part (CDA Sec 230) to worry about this.

Meanwhile the US FBI, UK, and NZ equivs say we should have back doors in encryption.

CVEs are important. This should not be defunded. Call up the office of that idiot in your district and tell their PA that.

Submission + - Warren campaign open-sources software! (twitter.com)

Submitted by gavron on Friday March 27, 2020 @02:37PM

gavron writes: While most politicians are pro copyright maximalism and patent exclusivity, Elizabeth Warren's campaign just open-source a bunch of software and are proud of having used open source to save money, and build upon the shoulders of other giants. Way to go!

From the tweet:
Team Warren @TeamWarren

Our tech team worked hard to make getting involved with @ewarren's campaign as easy as possible. We leaned heavily on open source technology, and we want to contribute back. So we're open-sourcing some of our most important projects for anyone to use.

Submission + - Time Warner Parting Itself Out

Submitted by gavron on Monday June 16, 2014 @02:41PM

gavron writes: We all know about TW Cable being acquired by Comcast (subject to regulatory approval) http://corporate.comcast.com/t... but news from today is that their non-cable business is being purchased by Level3 for almost 6 BILLION dollars. http://dealbook.nytimes.com/20... .

What used to be the former "largest media and distribution company ever" (AOL Time Waner) is now nothing more than a garage of pieces being parceled off to the first available bidder. This might be good for consumers, but recently Time Warner (and Comcast) won awards for consumer hatred. http://time.com/106016/comcast...

Submission + - Nortel Patent Sale gets DoJ Review (wsj.com)

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gavron

on Friday July 29, 2011 @10:18PM

gavron writes: "The US Department of Justice will review the Nortel patent sale to the entity formed by Apple, Microsoft, and others.

This is the same sale that the Canadian authorities declined to review because the $4+BN deal was valued by them at less than $750M.

The patents were originally bid $900M by stalking-horse google. It is believed they are to be use against Android and open-source."

Submission + - ACLU sues DHS over unlawful searches and detention

Submitted by gavron on Thursday June 18, 2009 @04:41PM

gavron writes: The ACLU has filed suit against DHS for TSA conducting illegal searches and detention. In the instant case it was a Ron Paul staffer with campaign dollars. The suit seeks to address TSA searching anything that has nothing to with increasing security on aircraft and instead doing unlawful 4th amendment violating searches (such as those of laptops, thumbdrives, etc.)

As TSA has more and more work to meet its mandate of only screening half the luggage... the suit suggests the best of use of its resources is to focus on its mandate, not harassing innocent travelers.

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