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> > DOGE wasn't an audit. It was an excuse to exfiltrate mountains of your sensitive data into their secret models and into places like Palantir > Do you have
by pimlottc 11mo ago
> > DOGE wasn't an audit. It was an excuse to exfiltrate mountains of your sensitive data into their secret models and into places like Palantir
> Do you have any actual evidence of this?
I will not comment on motives, but DOGE absolutely shredded the safeguards and firewalls that were created to protect privacy and prevent dangerous and unlawful aggregations of sensitive personal data.
They obtained accesses that would have taken months by normal protocols and would have been outright denied in most cases, and then used it with basically zero oversight or accountability.
It was a huge violation of anything resembling best practices from both a technological and bureaucratic perspective.
- itsastrawman 11mo ago[flagged]
- blindriver 11mo ago> I will not comment on motives, but DOGE absolutely shredded the safeguards and firewalls that were created to protect privacy and prevent dangerous and unlawful aggregations of sensitive personal data. Do you have any actual evidence of this?
- fsflover 11mo agohttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46149124 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46149124
- blindriver 11mo agoThe comment you linked to is deleted. Do you happen to have anything else? I'm concerned by the accusations and want to know more.
- freejazz 11mo agoHere's one example. Have you not been following DOGE? You do come off like you're disingenuously concern trolling over something you don't agree with politically. https://krebsonsecurity.com/2025/04/whistleblower-doge-siphoned-nlrb-case-data/ https://krebsonsecurity.com/2025/04/whistleblower-doge-sipho...
- overfeed 11mo ago> You do come off like you're disingenuously concern trolling over something you don't agree with politically. Beyond mere political alignment, lots of actual DOGE boys were recruited (or volunteered) from the valley, and hang around HN. Don't be surprised by intentional muddying of the waters. There are bunch of people invested in managing the reputation of DOGE, so their association with it doesn't become a stain on theirs.
- freejazz 11mo agoGreat point. It's all so funny because DOGE was just so ridiculous on the face of itself.
- fsflover 11mo agohttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43704481 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43704481
- pimlottc 11mo agohttps://www.npr.org/2025/04/15/nx-s1-5355896/doge-nlrb-elon-musk-spacex-security https://www.npr.org/2025/04/15/nx-s1-5355896/doge-nlrb-elon-... https://www.wired.com/story/doge-data-access-hhs/ https://www.wired.com/story/doge-data-access-hhs/ https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2025/02/doge-god-mode-access/681719/ https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2025/02/doge-...