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   Marcus Hutchins :verified: (malwaretech@infosec.exchange)'s status on Thursday, 10-Apr-2025 14:36:33 JST Marcus Hutchins :verified:

   Just woke up to find out the president has revoked the security clearances of everyone at a cybersecurity company because Chris Krebs went to work there. Krebs was his director for the agency in charge of Cybersecurity & Election Security during his first term and refuted his claim the 2020 election was "stolen".

   Revoking the clearance of every employee basically kills the company's ability to do government contracts, which is a major source of revenue for cybersecurity companies. The White House press release also restates the false claim that the 2020 election was "rigged and stolen".

   The US is basically a fascist dictatorship at this point. One where the president goes after entire companies because a single person spoke out against his verifiably false claims. You'd have to be completely insane to travel here right now.

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     feld (feld@friedcheese.us)'s status on Thursday, 10-Apr-2025 14:36:32 JST feld

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     > Revoking the clearance of every employee basically kills the company's ability to do government contracts, which is a major source of revenue for cybersecurity companies.
     
     To be fair, that sounds like an unsustainable business model to only be able to survive on government contracts
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     feld (feld@friedcheese.us)'s status on Friday, 11-Apr-2025 02:26:40 JST feld

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     • Mark Koek
     @mkoek @malwaretech if you specialize in something that *only* the government needs, that's fine.
     
     Otherwise you're just risking your company's future based on which way the political winds blow. Today might be fine, tomorrow someone might decide to massively cut budgets and eliminate anything deemed to be "waste". It's a huge risk IMO.
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     Mark Koek (mkoek@mastodon.nl)'s status on Friday, 11-Apr-2025 02:26:41 JST Mark Koek

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     • feld

     @feld @malwaretech Why? There's lots of companies the world over who work mostly for the public sector.