The program will be picked up by others in the fullness of time. It's a shit move, for sure, but I bet the calculus here is that the US will still benefit from someone else doing the hard work but without paying for it.
The only thing the US loses here is prestige. And I'm totally fine with that.
Ooooooooooooooooooh shiiiiiiiiiiit that's not good
Like, for anybody who already understands that everything to do with computers talking to each other is basically held together with spit and tape, they're defunding the tape
CVE is THE definitive central source for "fix this potential hack now plz"--at least for things the US thought was too dangerous to keep secret for their own sneaky purposes. Oldheads may remember getting alerts from CERT.
I assume, being a public-facing service, that it wasn't profitable and therefore it's inefficient.
Like, EU CVD/CSIRT will undoubtedly step in to close that gap, but burning this is insane.
This is sticking your dick in a toaster levels of stupid
