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With friends like these, who needs enemies?
by 4ndrewl 2y ago
With friends like these, who needs enemies?
- bufferoverflow 2y ago[flagged]
- 4ndrewl 2y agoThis isnt "getting hacked". This is basic 101 kids stuff. Any competent org wouldnt allow this anywhere near their dev environments let alone prod.
- notahacker 2y agoAnd it's not a big org or one with a strict division of responsibilities between clumsy juniors who update the website and carefully vetted experienced pros who do the real work, so this is likely to be representative the calibre of developer currently trawling through sensitive government databases....
- ramon156 2y agoFound the DOGE employee
- bufferoverflow 2y ago[flagged]
- pesus 2y agoWhat agency is that?
- bufferoverflow 2y ago[flagged]
- orthecreedence 2y agoIn case you were asking genuinely: TDS is "Trump Derangement Syndrome." Generally coined to critique people who are furious with Trump no matter what he does. For instance, one time he ate McDonalds at the white house and there were articles criticizing the event for days. But it's often over-applied by Trump's supporters to dismiss any real criticism (the above being a perfect example).
- 83457 2y agoSome of his supporters have their own “TDS”.
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- phailhaus 2y agoWho cares about security. As long as the libs are crying, right?
- bufferoverflow 2y ago[flagged]
- jasonvorhe 2y agoThis reductionist way of thinking isn't doing you or anyone any good. Unless you have at least some circumstantial evidence hinting at that, apart from "someone disagrees with me so they must be x", this isn't providing any value to the discussion.
- anigbrowl 2y agoYou should probably address your criticisms to the gp. Giving trolls a pass and wagging fingers at people who reject their specious arguments is an increasingly common failure pattern.
- AnimalMuppet 2y agoTrolls don't get a pass. But neither do their critics. You want to criticize a troll? Be my guest. Criticize away. (Or just downvote and flag.) But if you criticize, do better than false accusation. (There's a fine real accusation to make, namely "you're being a troll"; you don't have to make false accusations.) Be better than the trolls. Don't stoop to their level.
- anigbrowl 2y agoI really think people can distinguish between a formal accusation and snark. Now, I agree that in febrile political environments it's better not to rely on sarcasm and satire for communication because it imposes extra cognitive overhead and is subject to misinterpretation, but at the same time 'found the [negative stereotype]' is such a common joke format in American popular culture that it would be foolish to take it literally. It's like objecting to a 'knock knock' joke by complaining that the person is lying about being on the other side of a door. And putting trolls and their critics on the same level is fundamentally foolish, and a much worse example of feeding trolls. It means attacking the critics for paying the trolls back in their own coin, which inevitably leads to a ratchet effect in favor of the trolls. There's good evidence that being rude to trolls is the most effective way for an online community to maintain itself: https://arxiv.org/abs/1803.03697 https://arxiv.org/abs/1803.03697
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- timeon 2y agoImagine Google doing this performative stunt and getting hacked.