Doge Teen with Cybercrime Connections Now Inside Cybersecurity Agency CISA

Re:Doge Teen with Cybercrime Connections Now Inside Cybersec... by benatkin on Wednesday February 19, 2025 @10:13PM (#43110684)

There's already a reasonable approach to this, which DOGE is opting out of. Those who are https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grey_hat are carefully given positions that require their specific skills, and aren't given run of the mill security sensitive IT roles.

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Re:Doge Teen with Cybercrime Connections Now Inside Cybersec... by keepamovin on Wednesday February 19, 2025 @10:15PM (#43110695)

Fair enough but is he really gray hat? We don't know. Or is he just whiter than white but walked in the shadow lands to gather sacred mushrooms?

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Re:Doge Teen with Cybercrime Connections Now Inside Cybersec... by benatkin on Wednesday February 19, 2025 @10:44PM (#43110853)

He's either grey hat or deny hat...the allow hat ship sailed.

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Re:Doge Teen with Cybercrime Connections Now Inside Cybersec... by keepamovin on Wednesday February 19, 2025 @11:19PM (#43111064)

I don't get your joke, but thanks! Heh :)

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Re:Doge Teen with Cybercrime Connections Now Inside Cybersec... by benatkin on Wednesday February 19, 2025 @11:34PM (#43111187)

You said whiter than white when I just gave a link to the page about grey hat hackers, not endorsing the name grey hat, so I said allow hat instead of white hat and deny hat instead if allow hat to mirror allowlist/denylist in place of whitelist/blacklist.

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Re:Doge Teen with Cybercrime Connections Now Inside Cybersec... by keepamovin on Thursday February 20, 2025 @05:47AM (#43113242)

Oh hahahaha! :) that was quite a few levels of indirection

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Re:Doge Teen with Cybercrime Connections Now Inside Cybersec... by chonkerz on Wednesday February 19, 2025 @10:27PM (#43110763)

If only they bothered to do a real background check

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Re:Doge Teen with Cybercrime Connections Now Inside Cybersec... by keepamovin on Wednesday February 19, 2025 @11:19PM (#43111067)

I do agree that vetting would be a good idea - did they tho? We don't know. That's the thing. I guess DOGE is sorta like move fast and break things applied to gov? Hah :)

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