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>> Did everybody already forget only a month ago it was revealed Chinese hackers had access to US Treasury computers including US Treasury Secretary Janet Yelle
by throw0101d 2y ago
>> Did everybody already forget only a month ago it was revealed Chinese hackers had access to US Treasury computers including US Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen's own?
> I find it strange that neither activists nor politicians nor journalists cared about that enough to make it a continuous news cycle.
Because (a) that was a month ago and that's a long time given recent events. And (b), it's implicit that someone 'inappropriate' having access is a bad thing, but with Trump/Musk/DOGE it's being done on purpose.
It's the purposeful part that's at issue now.
There are people who have reportedly just graduated high school that have root-level access to things:
* https://futurism.com/elon-kids-gutting-opm-doge https://futurism.com/elon-kids-gutting-opm-doge
Beside being party loyalists, do they have any kind of qualifications?
- an_guy 2y agoAre you saying, a potus appointed commission for auditing government system is worse than a chinese backdoor in treasury department, who's level of access was unknown?
- johnnyanmac 2y agoYes. Someone without clearance nor congress approval running around with a sledgehammer is a lot more an immediate issue than a long term saboteur. We can deal with both, but let's make priorities.
- ttpphd 2y ago"if the president does it, it's not illegal" ok Nixon.
- sangnoir 2y agoCosigned by the Supreme Court of The United States, in 2024.
- ordinaryradical 2y agoNo one invited the Chinese through the front door. If you can’t understand that difference, you’re missing something very critical. One is serious because a foreign adversary is compromising us; the other is serious because we are apparently designing the compromise ourselves via the whims of a demagogue.
- throw0101d 2y ago> Are you saying, a potus appointed commission for auditing government system […] You don't need read-write access for auditing. You don't need root/admin-level privileges.
- an_guy 2y agoDo they really have write access though? So far the only evidence of that is a wired article [1] with anonymous sources, even those source were not 100% sure about it. Since then wired has posted another article [2] claiming the access have been revoked after announcements from senior officials, which again is from anonymous sources. I'm really skeptical of these anonymous sources tbh. [1] https://www.wired.com/story/elon-musk-associate-bfs-federal-payment-system https://www.wired.com/story/elon-musk-associate-bfs-federal-... [2] https://www.wired.com/story/treasury-department-doge-marko-elez-access/ https://www.wired.com/story/treasury-department-doge-marko-e...
- dani__german 2y agoI mean, Luke Farritor used some variety of AI to translate ancient scrolls and won an award for it: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/this-21-year-old-used-ai-to-decipher-text-from-a-scroll-that-hasnt-been-read-in-2000-years-180983084/ https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/this-21-year-old-u...
- throw0101d 2y ago> I mean, Luke Farritor used some variety of AI to translate ancient scrolls and won an award for it: Did the ancient scrolls involved accounting ledgers? Because some kind of auditing experience would be useful to figure out how where Treasury or USAid payments went.
- genewitch 2y agoAgeist and just parroting what the media says. I'm surprised you didn't throw in jabs like "racist misogynistic eugenicist" like some reports...