There was a recent article about this latest purge in the nytimes[1]. Apparently, it has more to do with "score settling" and replacing officials with loyalists and "yes" men/women.

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/11/us/politics/trump-pentago...

Goddamnit. Krebs and not-fired-but-leaving Jim Bridenstine are the few people in the Govt I consider very good at their jobs

A tweet from Chris Krebs responding to the news: https://twitter.com/c_c_krebs/status/1328859222071783424?s=2...

Guess the Republicans should have passed the election security bills that the Democrats requested, but they'd rather sow division and chaos after they already lost. What poor losers!

Apparently this isn't the same Krebs as https://krebsonsecurity.com/ [0]

[0] Funny enough, the website has a broken SSL cert at the time of writing.

Doesn't this actually mean "Krebs on vacation until Jan 21st."

Odd, but I am more familiar with Brian Krebs than Christopher Krebs, in the security space.

I like Krebs, but I think Schneier would be my pick for the job if I were allowed to make decisions like this.

Totally unrelated, but I’ve been wondering, is he related to Brian Krebs?

I fear that the measures needed to see power properly transferred will soon require remedies that the judiciary is unequipped for.

Another bit of lunacy, but no doubt his supporters will continue to attack anyone who tries to deal with reality.

Why is this flagged?

Heh, I suppose that’ll be a two month vacation then? It’s a strange thing to feel sorry for the DHS though, which I wouldn’t mind seeing shuttered entirely. Petty alternative for a lack of evidence by someone with access to all intel.

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Hire. Fire. Hire. == the Krebs cycle

> The Pentagon’s top policy official, James Anderson, resigned in anticipation of being fired by Trump.

What is the reasoning behind resigning when (presumably) disagreeing with being fired? Is it all optics?

> Reuters recently reported he expected to be fired after he pushed back against false claims that Democrats "rigged" the election, a claim that Trump has heavily promoted.

Sad day when doing your job means you get fired.

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Dr. Shiva has done statistical analysis on the voting data in Michigan, which compares straight party voting to the Presidential candidates and it indicates that a weighted voting algorithm was used to manipulate totals: https://youtu.be/Ztu5Y5obWPk

Biden's vote tallies also miss on Benford's law, which is used for fraud detection: https://principia-scientific.com/joe-bidens-votes-violate-be...

Yesterday 2600 uncounted votes were found in Floyd County Georgia after an elections official failed to include a thumb drive in the initial count: https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/georgia-recount-unearths-m...

Today a second Georgia county reported another nearly 3,000 votes were not tallied: https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/second-georgia-count...

I don't know about you, but I find that our democracy depends on thousands of people moving and shifting thumb drives around on unaudited, closed-source voting machines running Windows 7 to be extremely dubious and insecure.

I don't know why we ever went away from paper ballots. And if we're going to use software to assist, it should be open source, audits should be automatic, and maybe the ballots should be scanned through two different devices manufactured by two different companies just to flag any major discrepancies.

As long as Trump can withdraw the troops from the countries like Afghanistan, I'd say he's doing his job. By the way, he didn't even attempt to start a war or invade a country for a bag of god-knows-what white powder, did he? And a bunch of generals and officials did want to either start a war or put more troops to a why-give-a-fuck country, right?

Title is "Trump says he fired top cybersecurity official Christopher Krebs".

... okay, but did he? Trump also says he won the election. Can we get facts back into headlines and reporting in general?