@Remittancegirl @davidaugust

Maybe it needs an app for all the features 🙃

@Developmentdoc @rootwyrm @desperadoduck

this is my attempt to explain this problem for people who do not work in infosec:

When a security issue with any sort of computer product is found, it’s suppose to be forwarded to these people, MITRE. They assign each one a tracking name, maintain a big database, and publish a list of new ones.

Whether you are a huge corporation or a small business with a website, this list is incredibly helpful in staying on top of what needs to be fixed. Your computer has software components from literally thousands of different organizations running on it. Overlooking that one critically needs an update is how you wake up to your whole hospital having been ransomwared by criminals.

Cutting the funding for this means that there’s no centralized list everyone can reference and trust to be updated in a timely fashion. Hacking incidents, in general, everywhere, will begin to rise.