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Every other intelligence agency on the planet is about to scoop a ton of American data via cyber and basic HUMINT. It's free for all out there, I guess.

average_r_user 2y ago
Tinfoil hat mode: "What if" this results from a foreign influence? But I guess that you don't need to find answers externally when stupidity is a much simpler reason
- ethagnawl 2y ago
  I've been wondering this myself, not that I necessarily believe it. If they _were_ acting at the behest of a foreign adversary (pick your reason: leverage over an individual because of a targeted campaign, leverage over all of them because of the SolarWinds/Salt Typhoon hack, cash, etc.), how different would their actions look?
  - not2b 2y ago
    Sometimes the tool doesn't have to know he's a tool. The Russians use the term "useful idiot". They've created the back doors, I'm sure that the Russians and the Chinese are now in the systems the DOGE people broke.
- yieldcrv 2y ago
  foreign influence like a South African blood diamond heir?
  - delecti 2y ago
    That accusation is wildly off base. He's a blood emerald heir.
dobin 2y ago
Its not just this website. Since DOGE, China probably canceled all vacation days for their hackers, as its a free for all. Firing of most so many people including security departments and most likely the (good) femboy furry hackers. Is the newly created user with name "bigballs" who downloads whole government databases a foreign TA or just DOGE? Who knows. Who cares, certainly not the Government. The data and access gained currently by China, Russia, NK and SA will continue to be useful until and way after the next war.
- cyberlimerence 2y ago
  Oh I have no doubt about that. You have people, who would not be able to obtain a security clearance in a 100 years if they tried, running around, accessing government databases and taking "backups" offsite. Maybe law enforcement/Pentagon/intelligence data is not under threat at the moment, but in a couple of years who knows. Meanwhile people get fired, proper access protocols and communications continue to breakdown, and you get chaos. And every spy agency loves chaos.
  - TheGRS 2y ago
    I'm honestly just hoping "security by obscurity" is helping things for the moment. There's no way a 20 year old is figuring out the data structures of an entire department and getting all the data in a single day.
    - KaiserPro 2y ago
      no they are uploading loads of raw data to some LLM somewhere. Bestcase no history, worse case its hosted by a hostile actor
  - leptons 2y ago
    Nothing they have done or will do is supposed to make America better, it's designed to destabilize the country. They want America to fail so that they can rule over the ashes.
  - trhway 2y ago
SoftTalker 2y ago
They got it long ago, don't kid yourself.
davidw 2y ago
Or they could just, like, call Tulsi Gabbard.
- SXX 2y ago
  Unfortunately she is too busy for that. She'll just invite her friend Bashar al-Assad to assist. I have read on the news he recently became #opentowork.
e2le 2y ago
Perhaps I'm misunderstanding the situation, but isn't this similar to Hillary’s E-Mail?[1] >Over at OPM, reports indicate that individuals associated with DOGE connected an unauthorized server into the network. [1]: https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2025/02/doge-as-a-national.html https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2025/02/doge-as-a-nat...
nomel 2y ago
Is there any evidence that the contents of the database are accessible? The linked article doesn't make these claims. Is there any evidence that the database for this microblog of a cloud flare hosted website has anything of importance in it? Are you also (alone) suggesting there's a tunnel from cloud flare (where this is hosted) to some larger government database? You may want to RTFA: https://archive.ph/wy1Wt https://archive.ph/wy1Wt
- fesoliveira 2y ago
  I think you are missing the entire point of this. It's not that it had sensitive data or anything of importance. It is that a .gov domain under the command of the self proclaimed Mr. Efficiency and smartest person of Earth about servers and car manufacturing was wide open for script kiddies to deface and access data from. It is a show of hypocrisy and how cutting corners like Dr. Emerald Mine Child here wants will shape the rest of this administration.
  - nomel 2y ago
    > Every other intelligence agency on the planet is about to scoop a ton of American data via cyber and basic HUMINT I was replying to what was written. I read this as implying that sensitive (or any) data was available. > and access data from Again, is there any evidence that any data was accessible, beyond what is visible on the webpage? If you read the article, the flaw was that anything could be pushed. Could you link a source that says extra data was accessible? Your claim is not made in the above article, and I can't find anything mentioning data access, with a quick search.
    - asynchronousx 2y ago
      There’s zero evidence of either of it, just because they got an A record with a .gov at the DNS doesn’t mean this tiny site had any connection back to larger data, and based on my own analysis of how hard every furry hacker on the planet is hitting this, if there was, it would be leaked to the moon already and not speculated on.

average_r_user 2y ago

Tinfoil hat mode: "What if" this results from a foreign influence? But I guess that you don't need to find answers externally when stupidity is a much simpler reason

ethagnawl 2y ago
I've been wondering this myself, not that I necessarily believe it. If they _were_ acting at the behest of a foreign adversary (pick your reason: leverage over an individual because of a targeted campaign, leverage over all of them because of the SolarWinds/Salt Typhoon hack, cash, etc.), how different would their actions look?
- not2b 2y ago
  Sometimes the tool doesn't have to know he's a tool. The Russians use the term "useful idiot". They've created the back doors, I'm sure that the Russians and the Chinese are now in the systems the DOGE people broke.
yieldcrv 2y ago
foreign influence like a South African blood diamond heir?
- delecti 2y ago
  That accusation is wildly off base. He's a blood emerald heir.

dobin 2y ago

Its not just this website. Since DOGE, China probably canceled all vacation days for their hackers, as its a free for all. Firing of most so many people including security departments and most likely the (good) femboy furry hackers. Is the newly created user with name "bigballs" who downloads whole government databases a foreign TA or just DOGE? Who knows. Who cares, certainly not the Government. The data and access gained currently by China, Russia, NK and SA will continue to be useful until and way after the next war.

cyberlimerence 2y ago
Oh I have no doubt about that. You have people, who would not be able to obtain a security clearance in a 100 years if they tried, running around, accessing government databases and taking "backups" offsite. Maybe law enforcement/Pentagon/intelligence data is not under threat at the moment, but in a couple of years who knows. Meanwhile people get fired, proper access protocols and communications continue to breakdown, and you get chaos. And every spy agency loves chaos.
- TheGRS 2y ago
  I'm honestly just hoping "security by obscurity" is helping things for the moment. There's no way a 20 year old is figuring out the data structures of an entire department and getting all the data in a single day.
  - KaiserPro 2y ago
    no they are uploading loads of raw data to some LLM somewhere. Bestcase no history, worse case its hosted by a hostile actor
- leptons 2y ago
  Nothing they have done or will do is supposed to make America better, it's designed to destabilize the country. They want America to fail so that they can rule over the ashes.
- trhway 2y ago

SoftTalker 2y ago

They got it long ago, don't kid yourself.

davidw 2y ago

Or they could just, like, call Tulsi Gabbard.

SXX 2y ago
Unfortunately she is too busy for that. She'll just invite her friend Bashar al-Assad to assist. I have read on the news he recently became #opentowork.

e2le 2y ago

Perhaps I'm misunderstanding the situation, but isn't this similar to Hillary’s E-Mail?[1] >Over at OPM, reports indicate that individuals associated with DOGE connected an unauthorized server into the network. [1]: https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2025/02/doge-as-a-national.html https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2025/02/doge-as-a-nat...

nomel 2y ago

Is there any evidence that the contents of the database are accessible? The linked article doesn't make these claims. Is there any evidence that the database for this microblog of a cloud flare hosted website has anything of importance in it? Are you also (alone) suggesting there's a tunnel from cloud flare (where this is hosted) to some larger government database? You may want to RTFA: https://archive.ph/wy1Wt https://archive.ph/wy1Wt

fesoliveira 2y ago
I think you are missing the entire point of this. It's not that it had sensitive data or anything of importance. It is that a .gov domain under the command of the self proclaimed Mr. Efficiency and smartest person of Earth about servers and car manufacturing was wide open for script kiddies to deface and access data from. It is a show of hypocrisy and how cutting corners like Dr. Emerald Mine Child here wants will shape the rest of this administration.
- nomel 2y ago
  > Every other intelligence agency on the planet is about to scoop a ton of American data via cyber and basic HUMINT I was replying to what was written. I read this as implying that sensitive (or any) data was available. > and access data from Again, is there any evidence that any data was accessible, beyond what is visible on the webpage? If you read the article, the flaw was that anything could be pushed. Could you link a source that says extra data was accessible? Your claim is not made in the above article, and I can't find anything mentioning data access, with a quick search.
  - asynchronousx 2y ago
    There’s zero evidence of either of it, just because they got an A record with a .gov at the DNS doesn’t mean this tiny site had any connection back to larger data, and based on my own analysis of how hard every furry hacker on the planet is hitting this, if there was, it would be leaked to the moon already and not speculated on.