Comment by 77pt77
1 day ago
> accounts created for DOGE at the NLRB downloaded three code repositories from GitHub
Why is anything of significance on github in the first place?
Edit: It's not. They just download python libraries to do "IP rotation" to circumvent rate limits.
On the actual complaint: (https://whistlebloweraid.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/2025...)
It seems that the data was stored in Azure which doesn't make it any better.
If you continue reading, that question is answered. The GitHub repositories don't belong to the NLRB (or to DOGE), they were generic tools that were used to exfiltrate data from the NLRB.
I noticed and wanted to delete the coment but you replying made it impossible.
They downloaded "IP rotation" python libraries to circumvent rate limits.
What do you mean? It was "just" a tool to circumvent anti-scraping measures.
If they have full access to the systems, why are they scraping them externally?
This is the big question everyone here seems to be skipping over. It seems like they're using "database" in the colloquial sense and actually mean some sort of already public data that's just rate limited (for example https://www.nlrb.gov/advanced-search).
Then depending on the order of events, either scraping didn't work well enough and were given "unlimited" (not rate limited) access, or the accounts were actually denied so they fell back to scraping. Or perhaps these two things are just unrelated despite what the story is claiming.
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They are not. If I read the article right, they downloaded tools to use, mostly to do with anonymous web scraping.