Following media coverage of Apple lobbying in those two states, the company has been much quieter. Rather than lobbying on its own behalf, the company has relied on CompTIA, an organization funded by tech companies like Apple, Microsoft, and Samsung, to testify against the legislation at hearings and meet with lawmakers.
The in-person meetings in California came a few weeks after CompTIA and 18 other trade organizations associated with big tech companies—including CTIA and the Entertainment Software Association—sent letters in opposition of the legislation to members of the Assembly’s Privacy and Consumer Protection Committee. One copy of the letter, addressed to committee chairperson Ed Chau and obtained by Motherboard, urges the chairperson “against moving forward with this legislation.
I am shocked and ashamed that CompTIA would lobby against right to repair. To think that they are viewed as a high and mighty standards organization in the IT world - it's sickening to think that people worshiping them are essentially boot-licking - a term that I try to avoid using, but in this instance, unfortunately seems accurate.
It smells to me like the article is mixing up CTIA (the wireless industry trade organization) and CompTIA, but Motherboard doesn't really cite adequate sources to tell for sure.
I'm the author of this article—both CTIA and CompTIA are lobbying against these bills, but CompTIA is the most actively outspoken.
If you are a member of CompTIA or certified by them or have any thoughts about them please reach out to me (my Twitter DMs are open: twitter.com/jason_koebler ... are Signal numbers allowed on here?), because I'm working on a deeper investigation about the group's shift from a certifications body to a lobbying arm of big tech.
I'm CompTIA A+ certified. It cost me $0 (paid for by an employer when I was 16) and I think I overpaid.
I'm not sure that they have shifted away from being a certification body, they still issue a lot of certifications. I don't think they are considered very valuable certifications though.
There is nothing in the guidelines that says you can't post a cell number, I think you're good.
I was certified as well, anybody could do this sort of thing it's just a scam to take money away from you so you can get a shitty IT job somewhere. Interesting that they lobby extensively though - I had no idea.
CompTIA Security+ is basically a minimum requirement for any DOD-related IT contract at Leidos Inc., and probably for most other large IT contractors along the Washington DC-area "beltway" too. So yes-ish depending on whether or not US government IT is a "serious" thing in your opinion. On the other hand, you have nuclear missile systems using floppy disks as recent as 2017, so I guess it's a bit of a toss-up.
You're referring to DoD 8570, which requires all contract and active duty IT personnel pass the test for one of a number of junk certs as baseline infosec training.
The retail price for CEH doubled once they became an approved vendor...go figure.
Usually, if a place seems to filter on CompTIA stuff they don't get anywhere close to the places I filter for employed work or contract work. If you as a company or government department can't figure out how to do a job right (hint: it doesn't have anything to do with CompTIA) it's not a place I'd want to be.
The in-person meetings in California came a few weeks after CompTIA and 18 other trade organizations associated with big tech companies—including CTIA and the Entertainment Software Association—sent letters in opposition of the legislation to members of the Assembly’s Privacy and Consumer Protection Committee. One copy of the letter, addressed to committee chairperson Ed Chau and obtained by Motherboard, urges the chairperson “against moving forward with this legislation.
I am shocked and ashamed that CompTIA would lobby against right to repair. To think that they are viewed as a high and mighty standards organization in the IT world - it's sickening to think that people worshiping them are essentially boot-licking - a term that I try to avoid using, but in this instance, unfortunately seems accurate.