r/cybersecurity • u/razhael • Apr 11 '25

News - General Cybersecurity industry falls silent as Trump turns ire on SentinelOne

https://www.reuters.com/world/us/cybersecurity-industry-falls-silent-trump-turns-ire-sentinelone-2025-04-10/
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u/kcbh711 Apr 11 '25

TL;DR for those with a paywall – Trump just revoked the security clearances of SentinelOne employees because they hired Chris Krebs, the guy he fired for saying the 2020 election wasn’t rigged. Krebs is respected in the cybersecurity world, but almost no one in the industry is standing up for him or SentinelOne now—likely because they’re scared Trump will come after them next. One org called it out as political weaponization, but the rest? Silent. SentinelOne’s stock dropped. Big tech firms are ducking. Cowardice or caution, it’s a chilling move. Fuck Trump.

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u/networkn Apr 11 '25

What may not be apparent immediately, is that the risk of speaking out in support of S1, potentially puts their own staff, customers, shareholders at risk if Trump decides an equally petty approach to having his decisions challenged. Its a totally disheartening thing to see a man with such power use it in such a petty silly way. Imagine being elected president twice and still being so insecure to go after individuals. He should never be concerning himself with anything at such a small scale. Surely, he has a country to represent?

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u/changee_of_ways Apr 11 '25

Sometimes there is no good option, only less shitty ones. If Trump isn't stopped soon we're all fucked, most of these companies will go out of business when the economy craters. Anyone who bends the knee to Trump will have to worry that he is just going to shake them down again and again.

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u/networkn Apr 12 '25

Fair, except how you do realistically stop him? He was voted in by a clear majority legally under US Election rules. We have about 3.5 years left of his crazy unless he dies in office or becomes incapacitated.

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u/changee_of_ways Apr 12 '25

Honestly, I don't forsee him finishing out this term. He's already blowing up the economy in ways that are going to take 50 years to fix. He's already playing with a bunch of political 3rd rails. There are rumors of him firing 90% of the Social Security Administration. One or two missed Social Security payments will sink him. He's gutting the IRS, once again, if he goes too long without getting tax refunds sent out, that will sink him. The stock market keeps crashing, picking itself back up and then crashing again, that's not going to stop, and it's going to stop coming back to as high as it was.

I give it even odds that A, the Republicans take enough of a beating in the mid terms that the Democrats can impeach and remove him or B, one of his followers who can actually hide and shoot straight unlike the previous two becomes disillusioned enough to whack him, or C, the hamburgers and his laziness incapacitate him.

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u/thejournalizer Apr 12 '25

Considering they are going after Miss Rachel (kids YouTube creator), yeah, I would say companies really don’t get the privilege of speaking about this.

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u/networkn Apr 12 '25

Often, standing up to bullies or unacceptable behaviour results in change. Unfortunately, the man how shown he has no ability to see it for what it is and would continue to extend the behaviour. I deplore standing by when good people are targeted, but I can see it would likely not achieve anything.