RayboApr 10, 2025
BrianKrebs

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 <[email protected]>
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.

Trump orders probe of former cybersecurity chief for declaring 2020 election secure

Democrats blasted Trump's targeting of Chris Krebs and Miles Taylor, top officials in his first administration, as 'weaponizing' the government.

USA TODAY
Apr 10, 2025 at 12:03amWeb
Show threadBrianKrebsApr 10, 2025

The actual memo is such a bald faced distortion and inversion of reality:

POTUS alleges Krebs "promoted the censorship of election information, including known risks associated with certain voting practices, and falsely and baselessly denied that the 2020 election was rigged and stolen, including by inappropriately and categorically dismissing widespread election malfeasance and serious vulnerabilities with voting machines."

Falsely and baselessly denied claims that were baseless and roundly denied? That's some twisted logic right there.

Show threadT2RApr 10, 2025
@briankrebs It's not just distorted, it's outright lies. And in this case slander and libel.
Show threadCharonPDXApr 10, 2025
@briankrebs I'd re-read Nineteen Eighty-Four again, but I'd get too depressed seeing how it was just set 40 years too early.
Show threadScriptFanix💍Apr 10, 2025
@briankrebs
😔
Really sucks you end up in the crossfire just for a last name... People really are that dumb it seems
Show threadHelgaApr 10, 2025
@briankrebs my god this is some dystopian shit. The 'ministry of truth' is certainly divorced from reality.
Show threadwyngmanApr 11, 2025

@briankrebs This is going to lead to the exile / imprisonment of US citizens who denied Trump's election fraud claims, isn't it?

WaPo:

Show threadSamuelJohnsonApr 11, 2025

@briankrebs Egregious and evil, from an aspiring dictator. "I want my people to stand up" (when I enter the room) who will soon be demanding military parades and eventually disappearances of his enemies.

I'd like to people follow him him around with little notebooks writing down his words of wisdom, but begin to suspect it's too late for even ridicule.

Show threadṫẎℭỚ◎ᾔ ṫ◎ℳApr 12, 2025
@briankrebs #infosec
Show threadvandorb12Apr 10, 2025
@briankrebs Leave the Krebs' alone!
Show threadDoNotPunchDownApr 10, 2025

@briankrebs

🤗❤️. I'm sorry you are being attacked.

I can't fathom what Chris Krebs and Myles Taylor are going through. This is such insanity.

I don't know how but this has to be stopped

Show threadBill ZaumenApr 10, 2025

@DoNotPunchDown @briankrebs If some gallows humor would help, here's what Chris Krebs and Myles Taylor have been going through (It has Jack Benny playing an actor impersonating a Nazi spy talking to the guy running the Gestapo in Warsaw, played comically by Sig Rumann):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aeCAML8Pmpc

To Be or Not to Be (1942) - Fake-Prof. Siletsky consults with the real Col. Erhardt.

YouTube
Show threadDoNotPunchDownApr 10, 2025

@bzdev @briankrebs

Thanks for that. Haven't seen Jack Benny in forever!

Show threadMary MazzoccoApr 10, 2025
@briankrebs You and Matt Gertz should form a club.
Show thread@nickyluna58Apr 10, 2025
@mazz MARY SHAME ON YOU. DUDE I DONT CARE WHO YOU ARE YOUNG OR OLD I WILL STILL BE A. BITCH
Show threadGraham Sutherland / PolynomialApr 10, 2025
@briankrebs funnily enough nobody has ever confused me for the biblical painter by the same name
Show thread#?.info Apr 10, 2025
@gsuberland @briankrebs Well, in fairness you're far more famous for the awesome job you did playing Jack Bauer in "24"!
Show threadFinitumApr 10, 2025
@briankrebs safe to just assume that's Eric Adams. Could be Eric Schmidt. Eric Bana? Either way, so very disappointed in Eric on multiple fronts. May as well reply all to all the Erics, maybe even an Erik or two, just to cover the bases.
Show threadEric A. MeyerApr 10, 2025
@briankrebs @Finitum Yeah, sorry. We haven’t been sending our best.
Show threadBobApr 10, 2025
@briankrebs totally normal stuff for the normal times we live in 😬
Show threadDEY!Apr 10, 2025
@briankrebs i used to respect you so much until trump lost. yeah tough sale bud
Show thread💀 𝓕airchild 💀Apr 10, 2025
@briankrebs JFC
Show threadtheHastyOneApr 10, 2025
@briankrebs I know you shouldn't feed the trolls, and I know there is nothing you can do to change this persons mind about who you aren't...but I almost want to see how this would play out if you apologized or argued back...but again shouldn't feed the trolls but ....you know what you did
Show threadEhay2kApr 10, 2025

@briankrebs

For anyone trying to find them, @briankrebs and Chris Krebs share a house at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. NW, Washington D.C.

(Most of #maga are functionally illiterate. )

Show threadWilfried KlaebeApr 10, 2025

For those who would need to look it up, like me: https://www.openstreetmap.org/node/4957653990

@Ehay2k @briankrebs

Node: ‪White House Meridian‬ (‪4957653990‬)

OpenStreetMap is a map of the world, created by people like you and free to use under an open license.

OpenStreetMap
Show threadThe Cat HerderApr 10, 2025
@briankrebs To summarize, #Trump is a moronic Hitler-like prick, and he must be stopped at any cost. What he’s done to all of us in such a short time should be prosecuted as Treason.
Show threadṫẎℭỚ◎ᾔ ṫ◎ℳApr 10, 2025
@briankrebs “Krooks-Like-Krebs.com Brian quickly get this domain name. It’s got a nice ring to it.🤣😆
Show threadRaglan Niall  Apr 10, 2025
@TycoonTom Kwikly get the domain name I think you mean 😛
@briankrebs
Show threadṫẎℭỚ◎ᾔ ṫ◎ℳApr 10, 2025
@briankrebs @Niall 🤣😆🤣 missed opportunity that would’ve been funnier
Show threadKrystynaApr 10, 2025

@briankrebs

No picking’ on Brian K! He’s a good guy you morons

Show threadRaglan Niall  Apr 10, 2025
@briankrebs we're living in the age of stupid. Sorry you're at the sharp end. I can offer a shipping container in New Zealand if you decide you want to hideout for a bit. It has WifFi but I can disable that if you prefer...
Show threadLandoApr 10, 2025
@briankrebs What an oddly specific canary to be…
Show threadSimon Zerafa (Status:   😊)Apr 10, 2025

@briankrebs

@riskybusiness

Apparently all of the employees of @SentinelOne have also had their clearances revoked 🫤🤦‍♂️

Show threadFoxyLad Apr 10, 2025
@briankrebs Was Eric home-schooled by a pigeon?
Show thread@Arapalla has movedApr 10, 2025

@briankrebs

Die Hard 4.0, here we go again.

Show threadṫẎℭỚ◎ᾔ ṫ◎ℳApr 10, 2025
@briankrebs Wow! You're right, It's happening again even on X   🤦🏼
Show threadiveylineApr 10, 2025
@briankrebs That's what Putin does to people who oppose his views. In fact even worse. The US has become an autocratic fascist state.
Show threadtontongrincheuxApr 10, 2025

@briankrebs
From France this is a strange thing you write here : having neuro issues with contacts and mail adresses is it a maga moroon must-have ?

They have sent a lot of mails to fire and rehire people, #signalgate and now this ?

Show threadLegit_SpaghettiApr 10, 2025
@briankrebs You could unironically start introducing yourself as Brian "Brian Krebs" Krebs, but then you'd run the risk of people mistaking you for the Hearthstone player Brian "Brian Kibler" Kibler.
Show threadMichael WeissApr 10, 2025
@briankrebs literally my first thought was "Poor Brian. He's gonna end up collateral damage."
Show threadToni AittoniemiApr 10, 2025

@briankrebs It’s all a loyalty test.

Be loyal. You will be rewarded.
Not loyal, you will be punished.

But we know already how this will end: Ultimately social standing by loyalty makes people who don’t think the ones who win the contest.

Back to rule by stupid mad kings & princes, who prefer corruption because it’s the only thing they actually understand.

Back to feudalism.

Show threadMikkoApr 10, 2025
@briankrebs This sucks on so many levels. Fascist president using the government to attack honest hard working people. People joining the attack and also targeting wrong people who have nothing to do with this. Illiteracy is poison for civilization, lets make sure children get an education.
Show thread@nickyluna58Apr 10, 2025
@briankrebs i. dont fellow ploitics
Show threadChingApr 10, 2025
@briankrebs did
Show threadMartin SeegerApr 10, 2025
@briankrebs Sorry to hear that and also sorry for what Chris has to endure…
Show threadAC NelsonApr 10, 2025
@briankrebs
This is such shitty behavior. That people think this is ok makes me furious.
@hacks4pancakes
Show threadLesley Carhart Apr 10, 2025
@ACNelson @briankrebs my nerves are just shot.
Show threadSunflower Björnskalle 🌻Apr 10, 2025
@briankrebs Honestly though this was al about you for a second. 😅😅😅 Fuck though, things are getting dark on so many fronts. Years until its over too. These assholes need to pay for the reduced lifespans caused by all the stress.
Show threadAllison NixonApr 11, 2025
@briankrebs they are gonna take away your security clearance!