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It's not. The CVE board members include representatives from CrowdStrike, Microsoft, Github Security, LP3, F5, Panasonic, NIST.

Everyone crying about "Oh no! This government institution is going away! Private companies would never do this! They would use it for financial gain!"

Um.... It's already run entirely by private entities via government money. It's the literal definition of a "Public Private Partnership." You know, that way the US government get away with doing a lot of shady stuff via non-government contracts who are totally not state actors /s.



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