I was contacted by a reporter asking about the possible security implications of the Doge stuff.
All I could think of was the false/misleading claims about DNS traffic on Trumps server back in 2016.
I said something like, “if the humans in charge grant access to another human, a secure system would grant the new human access.”
They didn’t use my quote.
Yes and no. DOGE already set up a site that gave the public write access. There are stories to be told already.
I’m a little flustered by all this talk of “read-access” and “write-access” in reference to DOGE.
Reading and writing what?
If these transactions systems are well designed, everything is written. They should be using special “write-once, read-many” media ensure everything is immutably recorded.
Even if it’s just a conventional SQL database and not some kind of transaction ledger, you can recreate the state of the DB by rerunning all SQL commands, which should be recorded.
What does “write” mean exactly here?
https://www.404media.co/anyone-can-push-updates-to-the-doge-...
I’ve read articles about how DOGE might have misinterpreted data because of COBOL, just today I saw the announcement of all these “5 things” emails being plugged into AI… there are a lot of people on HN well positioned to comment knowledgably on this stuff but the threads get flagged very quickly.