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▲ ta1243 7 days ago

Yeah, in the USA, where organisations and officers are continually threatened by an adversarial government.

No thanks.

Harvard for example doesn't kow-tow to the reigime, and look what happens. Non-profits in the USA are not independent.

▲throwawaymaths 7 days ago | parent | next [-]

A non profit is independent if they don't take federal money? Like EFF, for example.

Maybe CVEs should be tracked by a nongovernmental agency, like how UL works.

▲mschuster91 7 days ago | parent [-]

> A non profit is independent if they don't take federal money? Like EFF, for example.

The problem is the seat of the non-profit, as long as it is in the US it remains vulnerable to stuff like gag orders (and the UK is similar, see the recent issues with Apple and E2E encryption), or just the administration plainly ignoring the law and just forcing it to shut down or whatnot.

> Maybe CVEs should be tracked by a nongovernmental agency, like how UL works.

The current administration has attacked multiple nongovernmental agencies already, or trampled over federal law.

The only thing I'd trust for now to be a safe haven would be an international organization like the WHO that's backed by diplomatic treaties - but even these aren't safe either, just look at the ICC vs Israel debate, or the constant attacks and conspiracy theories on the WHO.

▲dmix 7 days ago | parent | next [-]

> as long as it is in the US it remains vulnerable to stuff like gag orders

Only under FISA warrants where you can't reveal the investigation to the public or during a regular trial if the judge determines leaking details of the case will impact justice AFAIK.

▲mschuster91 7 days ago | parent [-]

Do you trust this administration to respect the rule of law to that degree? That is the core issue IMHO.

▲throwawaymaths 7 days ago | parent [-]

Probably less than most (but not all) administrations. Almost every administration has trammelled on the rule of law. FDR and Wilson come to mind as among the worsr. At least this administration has many vocal eyes on it.

▲throwawaymaths 7 days ago | parent | prev [-]

> WHO conspiracy theory

OK well we know where you stand on that issue. Too bad pretty much every working molecular biologist agrees that the WHO is covering up COVID origins.

▲ape4 7 days ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Its not hard to imagine the current regime complaining about a CVE issued about a product made by a favored company - eg x.com

▲odo1242 7 days ago | parent | prev [-]

Harvard takes a lot of federal money. On the order of millions to billions of dollars.

▲brazzy 7 days ago | parent [-]

However, they just refused demands to compromise their principles in order to keep receiving those billions, while many other organizations caved in to the threats.