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  • The ethical route, ie “white hat”, is to contact the owners about the exploit with a fixed period disclosure. Ie, “fix this in 30-90 days, or we will publish our method”.

    I’m not sure that is the ethical route when you’re talking about disrupting the operations of a Nazi-led government.



  • flooflooftoProgrammer Humor@programming.devdoge.gov got hacked
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    Anyone who leaves a message in full view to announce they’ve accessed the system isn’t the real danger. If whoever this is could get in, so can the real experts from China, Russia, North Korea, etc. There’s no way Musk’s DOGE people, in their destructive haste, have taken any care over security. It’s even likely his team of punchable kids put in their own backdoors, thinking they were being clever. If and when foreign adversaries find their way in through those, they’re not putting up an announcement.


  • Even if the judges decide to bar Musk and his cronies from government systems, I don’t expect they would simply comply. They know that if they just keep going, the judges have to be the ones scrambling to catch up. It’s a deliberate tactic of moving so fast that the mechanisms of checks and balances become de facto irrelevant. It reminds me of what the Israeli military always did, creating “facts on the ground” while the international community discussed how things should be arranged. By the time the discussions concluded, the conclusion would be irrelevant to the reality. By the time the law catches up, Musk will have done what he set out to do. And he knows as well as anyone how difficult it is to enforce any law against the richest man in the world.