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Filing: DOGE broke Treasury policy with unencrypted email (www.theregister.com)

submitted 3 months ago by cm0002@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world

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[–] Darkcoffee@sh.itjust.works 151 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Laughs in Hillary.

Nah, scratch that, I'm crying.

[–] timewarp@lemmy.world 21 points 3 months ago

“What? Like with a cloth or something?”

“I don’t know how it works digitally at all.”

[–] TommySoda@lemmy.world 91 points 3 months ago (4 children)

I'm just waiting for these incompetent fuckwits at DOGE to fuck something up so catastrophically that it backfires on them tenfold. I'd take GeekSquad running the government over these guys.

[–] adarza@lemmy.ca 70 points 3 months ago

tenfold? imagine if an adversary had free and unfettered access to every network those morons have touched...

oh. right. the adversary is already there.

[–] icmpecho@lemmy.ml 21 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I'm barely an engineer but I can guarantee you that anyone with the ability to build a single actual functional server could run stuff better than these clowns. they fucked up so badly that they exposed a open mail relay to the entire fucking NOAA. I'm a dumb removed but that is beyond belief, if I did anything nearly as reckless as that on a corp network I'd be in handcuffs before the top of the hour.

this isn't just risky - this is begging to be plundered.

[–] ayyy@sh.itjust.works 2 points 3 months ago

You’re a dumb removed? You need to join a better instance.

[–] PerogiBoi@lemmy.ca 17 points 3 months ago (1 children)

How is it going to backfire? Are there tangible consequences for anyone involved? Doesn’t seem like it.

[+] AlecSadler@sh.itjust.works 4 points 3 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

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[–] PerogiBoi@lemmy.ca 9 points 3 months ago (2 children)

That doesn’t happen in America. They’d rather wait for some magical government institution to save them. Canadian cities protested at Tesla dealerships this past weekend harder than any Americans did for their own country in this last couple of months.

My only conclusion I can come to as a non-American is that the vast majority of Americans want this and approve of this either fully or somewhat.

[–] TheGreenWizard@lemmy.zip 5 points 3 months ago (3 children)

Because American police do not fuck around, they do a little more than ask you politely to stop. Nowadays protesting in America could get you killed or handicaped. They don't care how old you are either, they won't aim their rubber bullets at the ground like they're supposed to, (that is, if they are using rubber bullets) they will kill if they feel remotely "threatened". But Yea, all Americans are fat, stupid, ignorant, inbred, Bible-thumping, morons that just love watching the world burn, they all adore what's happening.

[–] Mic_Check_One_Two@reddthat.com 9 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

There’s also the fact that the entire American education system is set up to teach Americans that peaceful protest is the only acceptable form of protest. History classes teach about the American revolution as if it was a fully justified break from an oppressive monarchy… And then as soon as it’s done, there’s a hard turn towards “but that was the only time violence was justified. In every other case, you’re expected to peacefully protest instead. Here, have another portrait of MLK Jr in case you forgot what he looked like.”

The Black Panthers were barely even a footnote in my history books. There weren’t any mentions of the union riots, where factory workers threatened to drag the owners out of their offices and lynch them. Because those would show that violence is effective.

[–] wanderingmagus@lemm.ee 3 points 3 months ago

The tree of liberty must at times be watered with the blood of patriots. What is the Second Amendment for, if not for moments such as this? "But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security."

[–] ftbd@feddit.org 1 points 3 months ago

I always thought the second amendment was supposed to prevent this

[–] RonnyZittledong@lemmy.world 17 points 3 months ago

I am hopeful but seriously the Trumpers are so invested in the cult I think they would justify anything. If they completely destroy social security and medicare leaving 3/4 of Trump voters completely fucked I think they would justify it to themselves that it is just a sacrifice for the greater good. Sure they can no longer afford to eat or buy meds but the new Jesus said it is for the best.

[–] jaybone@lemmy.world 80 points 3 months ago (1 children)

And they will all be arrested, charged, and put in prison. checks watch

[–] taladar@sh.itjust.works 32 points 3 months ago

It is always nice when watches have calendar functions that correctly handle dates decades into the future.

[–] Feathercrown@lemmy.world 37 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Breaking and entering, illegal access of digital resources, illegal firings, handling private data without oversight: I sleep

Unencrypted email: REAL SHIT

I mean I'll take it, but, what?

[–] SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone 32 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (2 children)

At this point I am just waiting for the Treasury to inevitably get RansomWare'd.

[–] TheBat@lemmy.world 14 points 3 months ago

Be the change you want to see

[–] theneverfox@pawb.social 3 points 3 months ago

Anonymous released a video saying that musk has no idea what he's doing and he's crippling security, and that they will "strike when they're weakest, so be ready"

That could mean a lot of things, but in my daydreams they get into the banking system and just really just fuck it all up. Just make a total mess of it

[–] kn0wmad1c@programming.dev 12 points 3 months ago

Buttery Males