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> secure environment > copied to a flashdrive Both of these cannot be true. A secure environment does not allow trivial data exfiltration over USB.
by tantalor 8mo ago
> secure environment
> copied to a flashdrive
Both of these cannot be true. A secure environment does not allow trivial data exfiltration over USB.
- vntok 8mo agoMaybe it wasn't trivial?
- HillRat 8mo agoContemporaneous reporting was that DOGE people demanded root-level access across multiple systems (disallowed by federal policy, so political appointees had to demand the access) and without background checks or onboarding, after which they extracted protected data and shoved it in some S3 buckets. Just blew a hole right through the entire federal data protection model; you can't plan for "the President orders everyone to ignore all privacy and security controls" as a threat model.
- Uvix 8mo agoTrue, but you can at least correctly label it and no longer refer to it as a "secure environment".
- tw04 8mo agoIt was absolutely a secure environment prior to DOGE laying waste to all the layers of security in place. Presumably those safeguards are now back in place post-DOGE razing.
- doctorpangloss 8mo agoWas it though? Haha You sound like the guys I know who work at banks, talking about all this policy, how secure they are.
- 0cf8612b2e1e 8mo agoNot unless they rebuild all of the infrastructure from scratch. Far too believable that something nefarious was left behind.
- input_sh 8mo agoAfter you know someone already had root access to everything? There's absolutely no way to guarantee that ever again.
- tantalor 8mo agoIndeed. The story should be that DOGE compromised these environments (at the direction of President), which allowed data to be exfiltrated by randos.
- nxobject 8mo agoThat would be an admission of culpability, sadly.