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> accounts created for DOGE at the NLRB downloaded three code repositories from GitHub Why is anything of significance on github in the first place? Edit: It'
by 77pt77 1y ago
> accounts created for DOGE at the NLRB downloaded three code repositories from GitHub
Why is anything of significance on github in the first place?
Edit: It's not. They just download python libraries to do "IP rotation" to circumvent rate limits.
On the actual complaint: (https://whistlebloweraid.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/2025_0414_Berulis-Disclosure-with-Exhibits.s.pdf https://whistlebloweraid.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/2025...)
It seems that the data was stored in Azure which doesn't make it any better.
- Cthulhu_ 1y agoWhat do you mean? It was "just" a tool to circumvent anti-scraping measures.
- icedchai 1y agoIf they have full access to the systems, why are they scraping them externally?
- Izkata 1y agoThis is the big question everyone here seems to be skipping over. It seems like they're using "database" in the colloquial sense and actually mean some sort of already public data that's just rate limited (for example https://www.nlrb.gov/advanced-search https://www.nlrb.gov/advanced-search). Then depending on the order of events, either scraping didn't work well enough and were given "unlimited" (not rate limited) access, or the accounts were actually denied so they fell back to scraping. Or perhaps these two things are just unrelated despite what the story is claiming.
- icedchai 1y agoOr maybe, even with access, they couldn't figure out how to query the actual database, so they resorted to scraping? Even with full "tenant" access, it could take some time to figure out where to look.
- teraflop 1y agoIf you continue reading, that question is answered. The GitHub repositories don't belong to the NLRB (or to DOGE), they were generic tools that were used to exfiltrate data from the NLRB.
- 77pt77 1y agoI noticed and wanted to delete the coment but you replying made it impossible. They downloaded "IP rotation" python libraries to circumvent rate limits.
- dizhn 1y agoThey are not. If I read the article right, they downloaded tools to use, mostly to do with anonymous web scraping.