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The POTUS has issued a memo ordering a federal investigation into Chris Krebs, former head of DHS's Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA). The president fired Krebs after the CISA director declared the 2020 election that Trump lost was the most secure in U.S. history.

"Trump's orders revoked the security clearances for Christopher Krebs, the former head of DHS's Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, and Miles Taylor, a former senior DHS official who wrote a highly critical tell-all book about his time in Trump's first administration."

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2025/04/09/trump-orders-probe-krebs-2020-election/83016002007/

https://www.whitehouse.gov/fact-sheets/2025/04/fact-sheet-president-donald-j-trump-addresses-risks-from-chris-krebs-and-government-censorship/

When Trump first took aim at Chris Krebs back in 2020, I started getting tons of hate mail that was directed at him. People full of ignorant rage figuring we're the same person because we share a last name. We're not even related.

Now it's happening again. Here's one I just got less than an hour ago:

From: Eric <eticket@countermail.com>
Subject: Accountability

Message Body:
Krebs:

I used to be an admirer of yours but, ever since the 2020 election, I lost all respect for you.

You either lied or were complicit in the 2020 election theft and DJT is coming after you.

Krooks like Krebs need to be held accountable and I can't wait.

As you look at your 401K in shambles, keep in mind that someone in this administration made an “investment" that earned 2,100% _in one hour_.

If you knew what they knew, you could have made $2.1M from $100K today. Or if you're an asshole billionaire, a lot more.

Good luck investigating this insider trading. Guess which branch of government is in charge of monitoring this illegal behavior?

Get involved locally and change your part of the world for the better.

So much of cybersecurity is "We must secure the Orphan Crushing Machine so that unauthorized people do not crush the orphans," and not "Why the fuck are you building an Orphan Crushing Machine in the first place?"

So Trump just declared a 90 day pause on all new tariffs, except for China. This is the biggest dump and pump scheme I have ever seen. How much insider trading from people that knew this would happen a few hours before it was announced has happened? We will never know. This back and forth will only erode trust in the US even more. What a mess.

Martha Stewart went to prison for less market manipulation than Trump is doing.

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Unfortunately, I have to say this again:

US election infrastructure isn't perfect and there's still work to do to make it more secure. But there is simply no credible evidence that the 2020 election outcome was altered through technical attacks, despite exhaustive scrutiny.

Shortly after the 2020 election, when these discredited claims were first raised, 58 of my colleagues and I issued this statement:

https://www.mattblaze.org/papers/election2020.pdf .

Nothing we've learned since then alters my assessment.

He found visits to the countryside, and the cows in particular, helped calm him down. #grickledoodle #godzilla #country #cows #calm #mentalhealth #cartoon #art #drawing #funny #kaiju

pleased to hear the penguins have won the trade bargains

"Who could have predicted this?" say the people who spent the past year dismissing or mocking those who predicted this.

Spaghetti? Spaghetti⁠

i read many papers regarding automation, privacy, surveillance, and i think i will share interesting ones:

"We seem to be entering a historical period in which machines are more and more resembling human workers, while human employees are treated more and more like machines"

"Karl Polanyi (1944) famously observed that treating human labor power as a “fictitious commodity”would lead to the destruction of society; the question that our generation needs to raise is what will the transformation of human workers into digital sets of aggregate scores and trajectories on managers’ dashboards ultimately lead to?"

https://ojs.library.queensu.ca/index.php/surveillance-and-society/article/view/13776/9471

One word - hawt. This is cool on so many levels I would run out of space trying to share it all. https://dev.bazzite.gg/ @bazzite.gg

Here's how to set up ~$30 worth of gear to detect cell-site simulators, which are used by police and ICE to spy on phones in a physical location, using @eff's new tool Rayhunter https://micahflee.com/hunting-street-level-cell-phone-surveillance-with-rayhunter/

Tell companies to stop tracking you by installing Privacy Badger today! https://privacybadger.org/

Revolt brews against RFK Jr. as experts pen rally cries in top medical journal
"If our usual approaches are not effective, other strategies must be used."
https://arstechnica.com/health/2025/04/revolt-brews-against-rfk-jr-as-experts-pen-rally-cries-in-top-medical-journal/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

Unlike most others, we have made certain choices at Vivaldi that IMHO are important in this time and age. We believe the choices were important when we made them, but even more so today.

Our servers are in Iceland and they are our servers and not some cloud servers. We use them for all Vivaldi services, including things like Sync, Blogs, Forums and Vivaldi Social.

Electricity in Iceland is green. Most all of the power in use is hydro, with a little bit of geo thermal.

We do make use of CDNs for speed, etc., of course.

TONIGHT @ 6pm

Hosted by EFF at the Internet Archive

https://www.eff.org/event/tracking-and-documenting-surveillance-us-mexico-border

From a friend: "You can't spell tariffs without FFS"