@jerry Anyone worried about allowing a government agency to participate openly here, rather than worrying about the sock puppet accounts such an agency could set up without anyone knowing, is not worth listening to.
@jerry CISA?
Certified Information Security Auditor?
Sorry about the stupid question, but that's what I get when searching the internet, and I doubt it's correct.
So what's the CISA and why is it a big deal?
@Arsimael the Cybersecurity and Information Security Agency, which is part of the US government responsible for protecting critical infrastructure from cyber security threats by disseminating information about vulnerabilities, best practices, and setting security policies for protecting the US government.
@chort I’m not a huge fan of the USG, but CISA is kind of an important and somewhat apolitical force in our industry and my one criticism of them is that they tend to move pretty slowly
@pieselpriemel the problem is that I was willing to let them post their information about vulnerabilities, updates to policies about vulnerabilities, and so on, which presents an imminent threat to the safety of the marginalized people of the fediverse. Either directly or as a source of propaganda
@jerry
Like information is dangerous. :blobcat_pat:
Just wondering if the instance of the german CISCO equivalent @bfdi is a threat to those people as well. 🤫
@Walker@jerry@pieselpriemel "Any presence of a FED (especially one bureaucratically attached to the Dept of Homeland Sec even if it doesn't have law enforcement powers and it's meant to defend) is BAD and a threat to all free peoples of the fedi because they may read posts here (even using the native rss features built into say mastodon and other fedi platforms) or even more so post stuff."
I want government accounts in the fedi and off the twit, hosted on their own servers, but governments are sloooowwwww.
But this particular account was setup by parties unknown and Jerry took it over so it couldn't be used for disinformation, during last years huge twit migration, as identity verification is poor here. The profile duplicated the twit style and text. And they were being made over several instances at the time.
And because of this, Jerry is a known FED sympathizer hosting a bunch of likely the same, so is stinky icky. Reason or actual threats need not apply. :ablobcatnod:
@jerry tfw an agency has arguably less arrest authority than a random person on the street and yet is viewed as identical to having Border Patrol in your house.
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