Anyone Can Push Updates to the DOGE.gov Website

Musk is proof of that, in and of himself. And it’s not just cyber, it’s national security. We are in grave danger.

This has also been the narrative on recent techdirt.com posts, e.g. https://www.techdirt.com/2025/02/13/at-last-doge-and-musk-are-finally-named-in-a-lawsuit-albeit-officially/ - I (not being American) do not know or care enough about the topic to have an opinion about it.

This is by design, weaken security and allow daddy Putin to take over

Is it really a breach if they'll just hand it over to anyone who pays and/or stroke's Mango Mussolini's ego?

The United States has been glory holed by anyone who paid admission.

Also a pretty brilliant feat of social engineering on Musk's part. (And I don't say that to be flattering, it just kind of is.)

"Why do we have all these IT people? All the tech works fine!"

Bosses when the IT dept is furiously responding to an outage: What do we pay you for?

Bosses when everything is running smoothly: What do we pay you for?

It all seems to be rushed and it's all an attack on political opposition. Doing it well isn't important. Like a monkey throwing shit at another monkey, they don't care that they have some shit on their hands, they threw shit at another monkey and that's what counts. Unfortunately the shit throwing monkeys are the president of the USA and the wealthiest person in the world.

What is "Things people have been saying for 10 years?" Alex?

You can thank your compatriots for this horror show. Huh. There’s a double entendre there if you’re familiar with the Russian language, or if you’ve read A Clockwork Orange.

It can't be the case that these idiots are actually in control of the united states.

Nah they have people helping them. At any second you could stop and they would have no power. But you continually support their project

But the government does not use SQL per ELMO.

I am waiting for this idiot to come up with something like EIQL (Elmo's idiotic query language).

So, tell us how you really feel.

I can’t wait till the next dumbass gets into the White House and turns this pile of grabage off. Paying these idiots millions to power and run the hardware this pitiful excuse of a website runs on. And all we got for that money is some shit that is about on par as the shit you get from some O’Reilly book called “Building a Government Website Crash Course” with a Bald Eagle dying of bird flu on the cover.

Thanks, I needed that. Poetic.

emulating some fucking redstone calculator they wrote in Minecraft

Let's stop right here for a bit. With redstone in Minecraft you can make the same logical constructs that in real world lead from a bipolar transistor to a machine capable of decoding your porn in real time. And people, including kids, do design those.

Please show some respect.

Those who make calculators in Minecraft are not the dumb kind.

Literally no other dimenstions of values to add, shit I would be fucking surprised if a single one of the people writing the goddamn have ever heard of OLAP.

But yes, weird to expect almost college kids to have the experience needed. I can imagine some of them having the necessary education, but for a data analyst the mathematical basis is simple and the rest is experience.

Username checks out

I understand several of those words.

Is he perfectly stable, too?

• only if you're behind like 7 proxies

I do, but say I was.... Let's call it "clueless", what would a simpleton like me do to exploit such a thing?

They will fire most of their employees since they’ll get free daily content for the next 4 years.

Literally every country should do this. Any single country with internet access and even the start of a cyber security org should be extracting what they can, getting whatever access they can.

Make America Goatse Again

Doesn't seem avoidable.

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The meme came first. Then the coin. Then Elon. It used to be innocent.

I still think it's incredible he named his not yet an actual government department after a should-be-treated-as-a-security-by-the-SEC that he pumped and dumped

They're not cutting actual waste. Their goal is to cripple the parts of the government that stopped them from doing illegal shit.

If you are "torn" on whether it is a good thing to grant a wealthy campaign donor unfettered and unquestionably illegal access to government and bureaucratic infrastructure, with zero accountability or oversight, and who has displayed absolutely zero competence at managing any public institution (and in fact has a record of incompetence at managing private enterprises), then I honestly think you're one of the millions of Americans who just needs to fuck off and stop contributing to adult decision-making. You're simply not up to the task.

Waste is how you frame it.

Even literal poop has a benefit.

I do client work, sometimes it drives me mad how much time I "waste" making PPT slides that are just prettier BI dashboards, but then the client sees it, sends that one slide to his boss and everyone claps me on the back.

The wasteful spending is in defense and ain't nobody looking into that...

Whoever dismantles the pre-existing structure will be the one who will have the chance to rebuild it. This is the entire reason they are doing it. Great if you share their vision. Not so much if you don't.

"Im torn on this, on one hand I know I have an untreated open wound on my leg, on the other hand here's a 6 year old kid in a "doctor is in" t shirt who wants to smear whipped cream on it as a treatment".

What's to be torn by? False dichotomy.

No you don’t know that. You are repeating a trope without substance. Sure there’s probably huge waste at the pentagon but that’s not on the chopping block here.

Crowd source your database, what could go wrong?

I can’t believe people don’t get that. They are trying to delegitimize the parts of our government that help us.

No, penis.