Privacy @lemmy.dbzer0.com Nunar @lemmy.world 1d ago

Doge server leaks voter information

cyberscoop.com Cybersecurity, government experts are aghast at security failures in DOGE takeover

Elon Musk’s takeover of key systems across the government is ignoring decades of laws, regulations and procedures, experts told CyberScoop.

Just got a darknet alert that once again OPM info was leaked...

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ah yes indeed,what could go wrong with giving a group of people unlimited access to all voters in the US?
- Especially if it's bunch of kids hand-picked by a known lunatic to implement his loony schemes. Nothing could possibly go wrong.
  
  Musk’s team of youngsters, as first reported by WIRED on Sunday, is Akash Bobba, 21, a student at the University of California, Berkeley; Edward Coristine, 19, a student at Northeastern University in Boston; and Ethan Shaotran, 22, who said in September he was a senior at Harvard.
  
  The ones who actually have degrees, or at least have left college, are: Luke Farritor, 23, who attended the University of Nebraska without graduating; Gautier Cole Killian, a 24-year-old who attended McGill University; and Gavin Kliger, a 25-year-old who attended Berkeley;
  
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Downvoting this as the article has no mentions about leaks.

While I absolutely agree this is a huge issue for privacy, let's make sure we're keeping the facts straight.
Was completely confused hearing the term "doge", so for non americans such as I:

The Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), officially the U.S. DOGE Service Temporary Organization, is a temporary organization under the United States DOGE Service, formerly known as the United States Digital Service. Despite the name, DOGE is not a budgeted part of United States government, which requires approval of the United States Congress.

This is what happens when you give a man child power, wtf
I don’t like musk or what he is doing, but I don’t see any mention of OPM data being leaked?

I did an, admittedly brief, search and couldn’t find anything saying the data HAD been leaked.

Is there potential? Yes

Is this a bad practice? Definitely.

Would I hire any engineer who thought changing prod of a complex system on their second week was a good idea? Fuck no, it’s stupid.

But let’s not make up fake news.
Maybe the normies will start realizing we got a class war on our hands and privacy is key battle ground?

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