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> At 4:58 pm, he wiped out a Department of Homeland Security database using the command “DROP DATABASE dhsproddb.” This article is hilarious. The two bickering
by chatmasta 5mo ago
> At 4:58 pm, he wiped out a Department of Homeland Security database using the command “DROP DATABASE dhsproddb.”
This article is hilarious. The two bickering brothers remind me of the guys in the Oceans movies played by Casey Affleck and Scott Caan. It’s amazing they got this close to sensitive data.
- bandrami 5mo agoAs somebody who's spent most of my career in Fairfax County I find nothing about this story even remotely surprising.
- bmitc 5mo agoThose two in the movies were always a highlight for me, especially when the one joins the other in the Mexican factory riot.
- noboostforyou 5mo agoOne of my favorite lines "Peligroso es mi nombre medio" (which of course is not grammatically correct in Spanish) and then his short inspirational speech invoking general Zapata were great.
- johnbarron 5mo agoI think its them on video: https://youtu.be/Rx19zOzQeis https://youtu.be/Rx19zOzQeis
- game_the0ry 5mo ago> At 4:59 pm, he asked an AI tool, “How do i clear system logs from SQL servers after deleting databases?” He later asked, “How do you clear all event and application logs from Microsoft windows server 2012?” So many red flags, I can't even.
- lostlogin 5mo agoReady access to AI tools sure makes vandalism easy.
- game_the0ry 5mo agoAi is just a tool. You can kill with hammer, doesn't mean you ban hammers. And they could have used stack overflow instead of ai.
- collingreen 5mo agoMy god, they didn't say ban ai they said it makes vandalism easy. No need to knee jerk react to an argument that hasn't been made.
- fc417fc802 5mo agoIt's not knee jerk to respond to an obvious contextual implication.
- lostlogin 5mo agoAbsolutely wasn’t where I was going with that. I was sort of admiring the devastation a malignant actor can cause with a good tool. It’s usually used for morally neutral neutral or good work.
- fc417fc802 5mo agoFair enough. I guess an LLM in an IT administration role could be aptly compared to a bulldozer.
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- darkwater 5mo agoYep, Windows Server 2012 being a big one :o
- jiggawatts 5mo agoI love how this leaks out the fact that the DHS is running production databases on operating systems that are months away from end of extended support. Windows Server has 5 years of mainstream support, 5 years of extended support, and then an extra 3 years paid Extended Security Updates (ESU) support. For 2012 and 2012 R2 that ends in October 2026. The three years of ESU exists only for organisations like government departments that would rather pay Microsoft millions of dollars for patches than pay a competitive wage and hire competent IT staff that can complete upgrade projects on time.
- harrisi 5mo agoIt can be quite politically valuable to kick the can to the next administration.
- jiggawatts 5mo agoThe day-to-day operation of large government bureaucracies is surprisingly immune to elections. The same people stay in the same job for decades, the "churn" only happens at the highest levels, and even those positions tend to outlast changes in the current political party in charge.
- bozhark 5mo agoDid you not see what happened in the last year to federal workers?
- jiggawatts 5mo agoThis problem has been "cooking" for 12.5 years, not 1.
- harrisi 5mo agoYou're off by an order of magnitude, sadly.
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- plagiarist 5mo agoThey forgot a > "How do I clear chat logs from LLM?" I guess?
- t0mas88 5mo ago> In the space of a single hour, Muneeb deleted around 96 databases with US government information. He downloaded 1,805 files belonging to the EEOC and stashed them on a USB drive, then grabbed federal tax information for at least 450 people. Maybe whoever runs infosec at that place should also be fired?
- oliyoung 5mo agoBrave of you to assume they had anyone running infosec by the sounds of it
- IAmBroom 5mo agoElon's brother's landscaper's nephew's girlfriend was sacked along with Elon, so nobody was filling that role in the government. Which MAGAts applaud. Emptying the swamp!
- pjc50 5mo agoWasn't that .. these guys themselves?
- insane_dreamer 5mo ago> So many red flags starting with Windows Server _2012_ :O
- kaycey2022 5mo agoThose are not red flags. Those are the actual thing. I think red flag is a heuristic that warns you about a course of action.
- mock-possum 5mo agoAre you a man? Yes, 19. Are you alive? Yes, 18! Evel Knievel. — They also come off as a little bit rosencrantz and guildenstern imo