> Meanwhile, according to the disclosure and records of internal communications, members of the DOGE team asked that their activities not be logged on the system and then appeared to try to cover their tracks behind them, turning off monitoring tools and manually deleting records of their access — evasive behavior that several cybersecurity experts interviewed by NPR compared to what criminal or state-sponsored hackers might do.

The subsequent message about Russian activity could be a coincidence–Internet background noise-but given how these are not very technically skilled and are moving very fast in systems they don’t understand, I’d be completely unsurprised to learn that they unintentionally left something exposed or that one of them has been compromised.

If government agencies are compromised - via software backdoors or any other mechanism - any data and systems they can access should be considered compromised too.

And the same half of the population do not trust anything what npr.org says.

Understanding the above dynamic is key to grasping the current state of discourse in the U.S.

[1] https://edworkforce.house.gov/news/documentsingle.aspx?Docum...

Has some of the protected disclosure document from the whistleblower.

https://bsky.app/profile/mattjay.com/post/3ln2dgoksce2e

Looks like Elon's staff went in and made a copy of everything - which in this case NLRB, so sensitive stuff, but any state department going to have a ton of sensitive stuff - and sent it who knows where; this after disabling all logging and a ton of security, presumably to try to cover their tracks.

This is bad. These guys are looking like bad actors, with State-level authorization for access to everything.

Also looks like they're kids and don't have the hang of security, and the professional Russian State run APTs have hacked them.

Really feels like the fox is already in the coop.

And they absolutely should be resisted with this deadline in mind...

But did they actually "turn off logging"?? How do you even do that? Anyone know what access control system they are talking about?

It will go down as the most successful assault on America since 9/11 once the true scale of the damage is understood.

CNN: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TsqgXfrSksI

Why are people being deported for no crimes or for far lesser crimes?

Not only will Musk be able to tap into it for years but foreign governments.

> And Berulis noticed that an unknown user had exported a "user roster," a file with contact information for outside lawyers who have worked with the NLRB.

Possibly looking for lawyers for Trump to target with EOs or blackmail.

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...

These are a bunch of 20-something tech bro ego cases convinced of their crusade to remake government along libertarian axes they learned from Reddit/4chan/HN. These are simply not people motivated out of a genuine desire to improve the public good. And they've been given essentially unsupervised access to some outrageously tempting levers.

  Meanwhile, his attempts to raise concerns internally within the NLRB preceded someone "physically taping a threatening note" to his door that included sensitive personal information and overhead photos of him walking his dog that appeared to be taken with a drone, according to a cover letter attached to his disclosure filed by his attorney, Andrew Bakaj of the nonprofit Whistleblower Aid.

At this point it simply looks like DOGE is yet another attempt to use a popular trope (Govt fraud and waste) to push through changes specifically designed to give unchecked power to one individual.

This much concentrated, unchecked power opens up vast opportunities for fraud and corruption and there are pretty much no instances in history where it turned out be to a good thing in retrospect.

Also, very surprised this story made it to the front page. Typically, stuff like this gets flagged off the front page within minutes.

The other day on /active, there was a story about a French politician being banned from running for office, due to being convicted of outright fraud for the second time. Absolutely nothing to do with technology or business, nothing to do with the USA. Pure politics in a foreign country. Not flagged.

There was a story directly below which involved the USA, technology and business, but had an uncomfortable narrative for some users. Flagged.

As someone who still likes this site a lot, this just makes me laugh at this point. I don't know how else to react.

I hope he doesn't think Trump is his boy and will keep DOJ off his back. The problem is that the institutional funds and market makers will not support this level of Watergate/Enron/WorldCom-like risk and Trump isn't going to become entangled in that (since it means the corporate death penalty as far as public equity and access to bank capital is concerned).

BUT the Report is from a super controversial NGO that has long been targeted by Republicans and may soon be DOGEd, so it could be filled with speculation, half-truths, innuendo and lies.

Still...They didn't use StarLink?! I mean, is that not the greatest evidence you could ever hope for of an obvious NSA backdoor in StarLink? They were willing to risk obscure premises-based (bandwidth) monitoring over holding a mini-dish out the window for a few seconds..Too much! I feel like I owe someone $20 for a ticket.

This entire article appears to be speculation about data they MAY have taken with no evidence besides large file size that they are misusing something.

The discussion with the “whistle blower” and other experts is only about how serious it would be IF they misused it.

Am I reading it wrong?