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> Beginning on January 8, 2025, a surge of U.S. government infrastructure began appearing on what’s known as “the search engine of Internet-connected devices,”
by linuxftw 2y ago
> Beginning on January 8, 2025, a surge of U.S. government infrastructure began appearing on what’s known as “the search engine of Internet-connected devices,” Shodan.io.
Seeing as how Trump was inaugurated on Jan 20th, it's hard to come to the conclusion that this is something that DOGE is responsible for.
- modriano 2y agoTrump announced DOGE on Nov 12th, 2024 [0] and the transition doesn't all just happen on Jan 20th. The Presidential Transition Act has provisions that allow some members of transition staff to get access to federal IT systems, and with both Congress turning over on Jan 3rd, 2025 and Biden already completely checked out, it wouldn't be even a bit surprising to me if Congressional staffers or DOGE staffers started opening things up as soon as they could. I don't have any evidence that it's the case, but if the claim about a surge of govt infrastructure appearing on shodan is accurate, I don't have any other hypotheses to explain it. [0] https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/trump-says-elon-musk-will-lead-department-government-efficiency-vivek-rcna179899 https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/trump-says-elon-musk-...