Re:Whistleblower: DOGE Siphoned NLRB Case Data
by dinoqqq on Tuesday April 22, 2025 @08:00AM
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If this was the case then Russia would also admit they did it. It's weird to not hide your IP, but still deny the hack on political level.
Re:Whistleblower: DOGE Siphoned NLRB Case Data
by cruzcampo on Tuesday April 22, 2025 @08:06AM
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Nah, it's the same as the "little green men" in Crimea back in the day.
Everyone knew it was Russia. They were still like "I don't know what you're talking about".
It's all power games.
Re:Whistleblower: DOGE Siphoned NLRB Case Data
by llm_nerd on Tuesday April 22, 2025 @08:22AM
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The major powers are endlessly engaged in hacking operations against each other. This is just normal, and no one needs to "admit" to it for that reality to be true. The notable part of this story isn't that Russia tried to compromise a US system, but instead is that some Russian party (whether official or unofficial) apparently had DOGE credentials moments after they were created, which indicates that DOGE is thoroughly compromised. Which should surprise absolute no-one.
Re:Whistleblower: DOGE Siphoned NLRB Case Data
by ModernMech on Tuesday April 22, 2025 @08:30AM
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Look at what they did with the 2016 election. They hacked that too and didn't hide anything, but when they were accused by the US government they claimed innocence and blamed Ukraine. The allows Russian people to say "Look how awful those Ukrainians are for hacking America; and look at how awful America is for blaming Russia."
So they hack their enemy, and then use that to reinforce the false narratives they tell their own people. It's gaslighting at the national level. Russia is as if your emotionally abusive partner was your government. America is becoming the same.
Further, saying "someone trying to create a Russia connection" sounds rather incredible. The Russia connections have been so absolutely overwhelming at every turn that it's infinitely beyond deniable now.
Russia just had to be a predominately white nation that paid lip service to Christian nationalism and that hilarious show turned them into the US far-right's best pals. It would be nice if we moved beyond pretending this is conspiratorial when it has been in the open and stated in the open repeatedly for years.
[1] DOGE is completely disregarding all security norms -- they think it's an annoying slowdown to not just install whatever they want and to open whatever ports they want, etc -- so the likelihood that vast troves of US data has been exfiltrated by enemy states is approaching 100%.