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My tinfoil hat says they want to privatize this through one of the administrations friends. A disastrous decision here.

Why would they spend money to replace it? The idea is to weaken and destroy the US and its institutions. Giving Palantir money might mean that security improves, and that goes against their goals. They have already demanded that Russia stop being treated as a cybersecurity threat in other areas of the government, this is a way to ensure that systems are vulnerable to attack.

Exactly. The Trump admin is well on its way tanking the USD with tariffs and getting every country (including the penguins) mad at us. The rationalization given by the admin for tariffs (trade imbalance) make zero sense, and they haven't offered anything else.

These sort of government services are always under attack by private organizations. The US Gov doesn't have to give Palantir or whoever a contract, they just cede the ground, give the right people a heads up, and then make the new subscription service a "recommended service provider" as a solid to whichever of Elon's circle gets the nod.

In the UK the some "entrepreneur" was after monetizing access to the Land Registry a couple of years ago. Apparently the free UK Gov service was not fit for purpose it needed a paywall to make it better. Nothing as globally significant as the CVE database, but you can see if the vultures are going after small UK Gov services, something like the CVE database is absolutely a chance to add to the executive bonus pool.

Palantir is about to get a contract.

I thought that the point of the CVE database is to improve security, not wreck it?

s/is/was/

Or worse, NSO Group

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