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Raphael Satter
@raphae.li

Krebs is at every other conference. His leadership of CISA, his novelty socks, his pineapple pizza jokes, and his dramatic Nov. 2020 standoff with Trump have all contributed to making him something of a cyber mascot. The typical journalistic cliche is "widely respected."

Raphael Satter
@raphae.li

As for the industry, it often casts itself as fighting to defend democracy from election hackers & foreign disinfo. Surely punishing Krebs for defending the truth about America's elections - and punishing @sentinelone.com for the 'offense' of having hired him - would draw public indignation, right?

Raphael Satter
@raphae.li

Well, turns out not so much. Let's start with Krebs' former employer, Microsoft. Microsoft's President Brad Smith told Congress in 2021 that: "There is no value that is more fundamental and timeless in our country than our commitment to democracy." blogs.microsoft.com/on-the-issue...

blogs.microsoft.comTechnology and the Free Press: The Need for Healthy Journalism in a Healthy Democracy - Microsoft On the IssuesEditor’s Note: On Mar. 12, Microsoft President Brad Smith testified before the House Committee on the Judiciary, Subcommittee on Antitrust, Commercial, and Administrative Law. Read Brad Smith’s writte...

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Raphael Satter
@raphae.li

I asked Alphabet's Google for their response. Bear in mind that CEO Sundar Pichai boasted in 2021 of driving users toward the CISA website "that debunked incorrect claims made about the integrity of the elections" - the same site that is now at the center of Trump's attack on Krebs and SentinelOne.

Raphael Satter
@raphae.li

Together with @ajvicens.bsky.social I asked a total of 31 other cyber companies to weigh in on the attack on their peer (33 when you count Microsoft and Google). Tenable: "Unfortunately we're not able to offer comment for this story." Okta: "Nothing substantive to on our end to add"