<story><title>RIP Cert.org</title><url>https://www.riskbasedsecurity.com/2018/02/rip-cert-org-you-will-be-missed/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>tptacek</author><text>CERT has always had a reputation that far outstripped its impact or contributions, and has in general been a force working against public disclosure. Serious vulnerability researchers have never relied on them, and my definition of &amp;quot;never&amp;quot; goes back into the mid-1990s --- when CERT and FIRST were really an activist effort to co-opt vulnerability research for the interests of large vendors.&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;m sure good people work there now, and they&amp;#x27;ll be fine. If all of CERT&amp;#x27;s public web presence goes away, I won&amp;#x27;t miss them.</text></comment>
<story><title>RIP Cert.org</title><url>https://www.riskbasedsecurity.com/2018/02/rip-cert-org-you-will-be-missed/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>mysterypie</author><text>Purely speculation, but could this be a way for Carnegie Mellon University to grab back the prestige that CERT gets even though it&amp;#x27;s CMU that operates CERT? I&amp;#x27;ve been aware of CERT for 20 years but never realized that it was a CMU project. On the other hand, Stanford University gets prestige from lots of things that use their name, even things like the Stanford Research Institute that are no longer part of it. So maybe CMU will continue doing everything that CERT did but with CMU&amp;#x27;s name at the helm.</text></comment>