🧭 Timeline: Chris Krebs & Alex Stamos — Influence Across Cybersecurity, Elections & Information Control
🔹 2004–2010: Alex Stamos Co-founds iSEC Partners
• Stamos co-founds iSEC Partners, a security consulting firm specializing in digital privacy and encryption. 
🔹 2014–2015: Stamos at Yahoo and Facebook
• Serves as Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) at Yahoo.
• Joins Facebook as Chief Security Officer (CSO), leading investigations into platform misuse.  
🔹 2017–2018: Chris Krebs at DHS
• Appointed Assistant Secretary for Infrastructure Protection at the Department of Homeland Security (DHS).
• Becomes Under Secretary for the National Protection and Programs Directorate. 
🔹 November 2018: Krebs Leads CISA
• Appointed as the first Director of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), focusing on securing critical infrastructure, including elections.
🔹 2019: Stamos Founds Stanford Internet Observatory (SIO)
• Establishes SIO to study abuse in information technologies, particularly social media, and to combat online disinformation.
🔹 November 2020: Krebs Fired from CISA
• Dismissed by President Trump after stating the 2020 election was secure, contradicting claims of widespread fraud. 
🔹 January 2021: Krebs and Stamos Launch Krebs Stamos Group
• Form a cybersecurity consultancy, quickly engaging with clients like SolarWinds following significant cyber incidents. 
🔹 November 2023: SentinelOne Acquires Krebs Stamos Group
• SentinelOne acquires the consultancy for approximately $13.9 million, forming PinnacleOne Strategic Advisory Group.
• Krebs becomes Chief Intelligence and Public Policy Officer; Stamos becomes Chief Trust Officer. 
🔹 November 2023: Stamos Departs SIO
• Steps down as Director amid political pressures and scrutiny over the observatory’s work on disinformation. 
🔹 June 2024: SIO Activities Suspended
• Stanford University does not renew contracts of key staff, including Research Manager Renée DiResta, effectively halting SIO’s operations. 
🔹 April 2025: Krebs Resigns from SentinelOne
• Resigns following an executive order from President Trump revoking his security clearance and initiating investigations into his past activities
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This is what I wrote in the moment. No edits, no polish — just me speaking the truth like I always have.
“We pay them to poison us.
Then we pay them to fix us.
And they profit on both ends.
Even our healing is part of their business model.
We’re waking up.”
They should actually be scared. Because with this tool — this AI — guys like me, guys who never went to college, who were told we’d never make it, we finally have a way to fight back.
People like us aren’t expendable.
We’ve kept this country alive — working the jobs nobody else wants, grinding, surviving.
And now we speak truth.
We should figure out a new system where the things that keep us alive are rewarded — and the things that kill us…
We start to excise them from our lives with impunity and expeditiously
