Comment by throwaway5752
12 hours ago
DOGE. It's DOGE. This is just things going according to plan for people that think the US government is too powerful or that there is a fortune to be made in stealing public sector resources and privatizing them.
It is a bad plan that has and will continue to harm people, but it is intentional.
Yes, DOGE invented storing lists of text passwords and uploading them somewhere. What a monumental cost savings innovation, surely never been done before!
Which DOGE employee put this file on GitHub?
"I didn't create the epidemic, I just fired all the doctors and dissolved the medical schools"
Security doesn't happen by magic. It is enforced by process, maintained by people and systems built and run by people. Furthermore, when people are under stress and underresourced, they make more mistakes. This was inevitable given the budget cuts.
You can't fire everyone at AWS and say one intern will support it, and say that it is a profitable and sustainable restructuring. Any fool can see that will fail, so if it were actually implemented by someone who is not a fool, you can conclude it is intentional.
The analogy to not posting secrets to the public isn't medical schools and doctors, it's a sign in the bathroom that says "employees must wash hands".
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They fired the people who might've prevented that.
https://techcrunch.com/2025/03/11/doge-axes-cisa-red-team-st...
> Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) has fired more than a hundred employees working for the U.S. government’s cybersecurity agency CISA, including “red team” staffers, two people affected by the layoffs told TechCrunch.
Not posting secrets to public GitHub repos doesn't need red teaming.
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The one who fired the team that prevented this sort of thing.
What team prevented someone from uploading sensitive information to public sites? This is a billion dollar a year industry (Digital Loss Prevention) and all the solutions suck.
I’m not sure you can complain that the people who should prevent this type of thing are having their funding reduced what are the example is they just did this exact thing.
I really hope they didn't also fire the "don't shit your pants" team or that office is going to smell really bad.
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You incorrectly mistake "no authority" for "didn't happen". Judges spank the executive branch for exceeding their authority fairly regularly, including in this case.
https://lawandcrime.com/high-profile/no-statutory-authority-...
> The court finds that neither OPM nor OMB have any statutory authority to terminate employees – aside from their own internal employees – "or to order other agencies to downsize" or to restructure other agencies. And, as far as the Elon Musk-led agency is concerned, the judge is withering: "As plaintiffs rightly note, DOGE 'has no statutory authority at all.'"
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/trump-scores-win-suit-chall...
> A judge on Tuesday declined to immediately block Elon Musk's government efficiency department from directing firings of federal workers or accessing databases, but said the case raises questions about Musk's apparent unchecked authority as a top deputy to President Donald Trump.
this does not align with.. well.. anything ive read about DOGE
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