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Security Database Used by Apple Goes Independent After Funding Cut [Updated]
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hmmm... you state it as fact, but how do you know there is "so much waste, fraud, and corruption in the US government"?
Genuinely curious what sources you get your "truth" from
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They are not exactly planning to reduce it: https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/house-concurrent-resolution/14/text
It will be interesting to watch that space:
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No, it’s a perfect example of something that the government should be doing, if for no other reasons than that the US government is the largest purchaser of commercial software and it benefits all of society.
Trump does whatever pops into his head at any given moment. He isn’t capable of thinking ahead nor does he really care about future generations dealing with the fallout.
That's not so an uncommon tactic to cut costs that I have seen tried in many different fields. I have almost never seen it work as expected.
First of all, some things that are useful or needed will be found out the hard way: when you need them and they are not available anymore or when some incident happens that could have been prevented or mitigated otherwise. This can sometimes cause staggering long-term costs.
Then you need to bring back whatever was cut out and now know you need, which sometimes comes at a much higher costs than would have just letting the thing alone. As example you might have to re-negotiate some contracts and now the other party knows that you really need them...
TL;DR: IMHO cost-cutting should always be done with a scalpel and not with a hatchet because the collateral damage made by the hatchet very often turns out to be much more expensive that the savings made by the cut.
Or you can, you know, blame the people that created the virus. Or the person who didn't take precautions to prevent the virus from infecting their machine to begin with. But that's just me wanting people to take responsibility.
I'm not sure why this was being funded entirely by the US government in the first place. Why aren't all countries contributing to this? They all benefit as they're all using the same OS's, software, apps, etc. Maybe now that it's an independent foundation, they will.
The decline of America into a **** hole continues.
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That's fine. At least then I can make a decision if I want my money going to it or not.
No, that's one of the things only government can do. They didn't build cars with safety features because it was a "waste" of money. Then Ralph Nader made them do it. And because it's a public issue, with a public interest that does not have a profit motive, that's a job of government. People literally die in cars every day, it's worth doing.
Whether they should be the sole sponsor of a program that affects many private entities and is subject to the whim of government budgets is another matter.
Now, if the government wants to make regulation about safe practices in software design (and they have, but I don't believe they are actual laws, just directives to federal agencies), then that's something government can and should do.
People didn't used to die in any significant numbers due to software bugs. That is starting to become a real possibility. In fact it's already a real possibility, we just haven't seen a clear example of it happening yet (that I can think of right now.)
By the way thanks for setting up the car analogy
One does not necessarily exclude the other.
As example, if your local administration decides to cut costs and significantly downsizes the fire department, an arsonist puts fire to your house and the fire department fails to intervene in a timely fashion to prevent widespread damage, there is a fairly good chance the right move would be to sue both for damages.
this is like asking why we bother to have police or fire departments since it just prevents people who do crimes and start fires from taking responsibility.
what does "taking responsibility" even mean here?
... cut everything except for Trump's trips every weekend to Mar-a-Lago to play golf.
And nevermind about the trillions he'll add to the U.S. debt if his tax cuts become permanent
Tax Cut Extensions Would Add $37 Trillion to Debt by 2054 | Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget
2025-03-24-In a recent letter, the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) estimated that extending and reviving various provisions from the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act
Tax Cut Extensions Would Add $37 Trillion to Debt by 2054
In a recent letter, the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) estimated that extending and reviving various provisions from the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (TCJA) would boost debt in Fiscal Year (FY) 2054 from 166 percent of Gross Domestic Product (GDP) under CBO’s March 2024 baseline to 214 percent of GDP, on a dynamic basis.
Based on these estimates, we find that extending the TCJA would add over $37 trillion to the debt over the next 30 years, including $4.5 trillion over the next ten years and $15.0 trillion over the next 20 years. In real 2031 dollars – adjusted for inflation to be roughly comparable to the ten-year score – we estimate the extensions would add $23.5 trillion to the deficit over the next three decades, the equivalent of 2.4 percent of GDP.
As a % of the whole population, the Federal workforce has been shrinking over the recent decades.
Amazingly, when population goes from 132 Million in 1940 to over 320 Million eighty years later, it takes more people to service the nation.
By the way, they are extending the funding after all: https://www.reuters.com/world/us/us...nute-cyber-vulnerability-database-2025-04-16/
Then why did Musk drop his goal from $2 trillion to $150 billion? Where is the transparency? The DOGE website added a lot of bogus "savings" just to remove them later, then stop reporting them altogether. Where are the prosecutions for the "fraud" they keep talking about?
It looks a lot like the anti-empathy ketamine addict is cutting services to the middle and lower classes to pay for huge tax cuts for billionaires. The chainsaw approach is reckless, and will take a lot of time to fix as crises hit because of the cuts. This is not the way, at all.
No, that's not true. It's a talking point on Fox news and elsewhere and disproven by facts. Also, government is not a business and it's not supposed to function like one. Learn some critical thinking skills before regurgitating misinformation.
Um no, maybe we tax some of the rich first before we cut things for the middle class
Those DOGE techies are stupid. They're the same ones who thought it was a good idea to fire National Nuclear Security Administration employees, you know the ones who are in charge of our nuclear weapons stockpiles and stopping the illegal trading of nuclear material. Then there were those whom they fired from the U.S. Department of Agriculture who were working on containing the H5N1 bird-flu outbreak that caused egg prices to skyrocket. The same goes for the fired employees over at the Food and Drug Administration's medical devices division, which includes physicians and... cybersecurity experts.
They scrambled to hire many of them back after realizing their screw up.
" ... The federal workforce as a percentage of the total American population has remained consistent over the past decade.
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Exclusive: DOGE staffer 'Big Balls' provided tech support to cybercrime ring, records show
The best-known member of Elon Musk's U.S. DOGE Service team of technologists once provided support to a cybercrime gang that bragged about trafficking in stolen data and cyberstalking an FBI agent, according to digital records reviewed by Reuters.
"Size of Government" and the "Size of Budget" are pragmatically two different things. Conflating the two won't get to the root cause issues and even less likely get to real aggregate solutions to the problems.
Congress not passing a completed budget on time ( passed before the Sept 30 deadline) for decades is a much more significant root cause problem than hand waving at public safety programs. When folks vote for folks who "rant on the bloat of those other goverment workers" and then go to D.C. and do not do their Constitutional obligation duty ... that is probably more a source of the problem, than the chessy misdirection/pandering is. Elect someone who actually wants to get work done on time.
The private sector of who? The software vendors (who produce and ship the bugs in the first place) in charge of policing themselves? When the FDA allows the drug companies to defacto certify themselves as safe how has that work out over the long run?
The aggregate class of pure software product consumption is vastly different from the taxpayer base how?
Your presumption here is that those 'techies' are all being objective. If send folks with biases into agencies they already didn't like then pretty unlikely going to get objective (with balanced taxpayer outcomes being primary objective ... as opposed to personal bias/greed/etc) cuts being made.
Some folks don't want good internet security ( that isn't their goal in life).
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/do...port-cybercrime-ring-records-show-2025-03-26/
Musk ( hackery flunkies ) indiscriminately chopping at stuff to perhaps figure out how something work isn't professional nor particularly competent.
Or better - healthcare. Looking at the big picture, the US pays a lot more (% of GDP) for healthcare than other OECD-countries for much worse results.
It seems as if migrating to public healthcare would use less money and give better results, so that would be real government efficiency in action. It's almost as if free market doesn't work for healthcare...
Yet doge hasn’t found much at all. Unless waste is defined as critical programs like management of nuclear weapons, power distribution in northwest, health research, and so much more. Clown Car that is doing real damage