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The US’s federal courts were reportedly hit by another data breach
- OrangeMonkey 4y ago"the federal judiciary system announced that it would be going low-tech for its most sensitive documents, saying that they'd have to be delivered by hand" Good. The people most scared of network transmission of sensitive documents, of internet-based voting, and internet-reachable-power-systems are technologist. Lets be real - we, more than most, know how bad the average programmer codes.
- salawat 4y agoAnd how untrustworthy those that seek out/find themselves in positions of power are with actually scalable systems.
- ttctciyf 4y agoFrom the politico article this is based on[1]: > House Judiciary Committee Chair Jerrold Nadler (D-N.Y.) told fellow lawmakers that “three hostile foreign actors” attacked the U.S. Courts’ document filing system as part of a breach in early 2020 causing a “system security failure.” The comments — at a committee hearing on oversight of the Justice Department’s National Security Division — were the first public disclosure of the hack. As a non-expert on security claims and counterclaims, I always find myself scratching my head when seemingly authoritative statements attributing attacks are made, without any evidence cited or rationale given. So my question for actually knowledgeable people: how seriously should claims like these, in general, be taken? 1: https://www.politico.com/news/2022/07/28/justice-department-data-breach-federal-court-system-00048485 https://www.politico.com/news/2022/07/28/justice-department-...