this rocks. when indiana edu killed the student newspaper, Purdue stepped up, printed the forbidden issue, drove it to Bloomington and stocked the boxes.

Quick reminder: If your employer is rejecting remote work while embracing AI, they are not pro-productivity, they are anti-worker.

Many defense news outlets are showing their bias regarding Katie Arrington becoming the new DoD CISO. If you search online lots of articles have something like "CMMC architect" in the headline then bury the fact that she had her clearance revoked deep in the article if they say it all. #cmmc

I didn't see anyone posting about this here so I figured I'd post so other people checking to see if people are listening to it don't feel insane for wanting to talk about it.
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Musk's brain is pickled, but still it's astounding how much he hates federal funding of science, when he would nobody and nothing without it.

He should be thanking Al Gore, not mounting a coup.

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Are you funded by #NIH, #NSF or #CDC? Please post any letters or communications you’ve received from these agencies or HHS about restrictions on grant funding, publications etc. I want to catalog all of them for the record. #medsky #episky

Apparently all the PhD researchers holding prestigious NSF-funded research fellowships are having their salaries withheld until some unspecified time when the leadership figures out how to eliminate any grant funding that doesn’t align with the president’s political ideology.

Trump is attempting to unilaterally freeze trillions of dollars in federal spending that’s been duly appropriated by Congress. This is completely insane and illegal. He’s seizing unlawful control over the constitutional spending power? Five alarm fire www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

This made me think about how insider threat is just a fancy somewhat new term for something that has been around as long as people have been working together. Same as it ever was.
#infosec #insiderthreat

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Begging the legacy media to hire journalists who have logged on just once in their life

“Look, I have no clear moral boundaries and that’s been great for revenue, I don’t understand what you whiners don’t get about that.”

Got the impression at the Federal Student Aid conference about 800-171 there was a different slide deck planned for an incumbent admin but because of how much FSA is likely going to be disrupted by the new admin, anything other than bracing for impact got sidelined, so instead we got vague advice.

Infosec people in the DIB, don't trust companies when they say they comply with FedRAMP. Look them up in the Marketplace! The number of orgs saying they are "working on FedRAMP" or "use the FedRAMP framework" who are not listed as even in process in the Marketplace is staggering. #cmmc #infosec #dib

1/ Here is a helpful questionnaire from NDISAC when looking for service providers under CMMC. A few other tips when looking at the fedRAMP marketplace 1. Pay close attention to the services list, this trips a lot of people because some Azure commercial cloud services are
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Republican from AL introduced a resolution to nullify the CMMC final rule. Which is mainly the requirement for 3rd party certification, not DFARS 7012 or FAR 52.204-21 requiring 800-171 compliance & FCI controls. www.congress.gov/bill/118th-c... #cmmc #infosec #cui #nist #cybersecutiry