The Government’s Computing Experts Say They Are Terrified | Four IT professionals lay out just how destructive Elon Musk’s incursion into the U.S. government could be.

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• Sanctus@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Its fucked now. Those systems are forever compromised. You’d have to spend hundreds of millions scrubbing and auditing to be sure, and even then you can’t be. They’ve had unmitigated access for too long.

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  • PlexSheep@infosec.pub ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Millions are probably insufficient.

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• kikutwo@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Is.

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  • ivanafterall@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    The Government’s Computing Experts Say They Is Terrified

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    • masterofn001@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Four IS professionals lay out…

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• zephorah@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Congress could shut this down, but not for much longer.

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  • splinter@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Politely, I think this comment is unhelpful. What do you propose that they do? Our government is based to a large degree on the assumption of good faith. The Supreme Court, for example, has power because the constitution says it does. They don’t have the capacity to actually enforce the rulings they hand down.

    The current president has basically said that he doesn’t care about the constitution, and is just concerned with stealing power for himself and his cronies. Elections are supposed to be our mechanism for dealing with that.

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    • MimicJar@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      What do you propose that they do?

      Impeach and remove Trump. Yes, a Vance administration might do the same things but Congress would make it clear they’re not willing to allow such bullshit.

      Or subpoena Musk and others, which I know recently failed a vote to do exactly that.

      Congress CAN do a lot of things, they were designed to be a powerful pillar of government. They have ceded much of that power through inaction over the years but they can take it back.

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    • zarkanian@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      What’s the point of rules if the president can just ignore them? Were they just counting on the president not being the sort of person who would break the rules? That seems like a bad plan.

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    • Naia@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      There are a lot of things they can do, but also if they are breaking the law and blatantly ignoring the constitution I would argue basically anything is on the table to stop this, even if it is “extra legal” or whatever.

      Because if they don’t the entire system of laws and rules and everything is fucked beyond repair.

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    • crusa187@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      At the least they could obstruct, using any means at their disposal, be them legally dubious or not. The repugs would do the same.

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• Punchshark@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Yet all americans are just rolling over

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  • Snowclone@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    That’s the point of the big lie and ‘never let them cool down’’ fascist tactics.

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  • ivanafterall@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I’m ready to follow your lead!

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  • obinice@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    They thought they were free.

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• intensely_human@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Here’s a spooky computer gif to really drive the point home

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  • sbv@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    tbf, those systems are now effectively haunted

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• cantstopthesignal@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  The solution is simple. Copy all the information and paste it into word pad. Then spend a billion dollars entering the data into a secure system.

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• kokesh@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Normally I think someone should take down that orange fuck. But this degenerate would probably be more useful target.

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• Viri4thus@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Us gun people*

  Government taken over by foreign billionaire - I sleep

  Children frolicking about at school - raaaaaaage

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  • sik0fewl@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    On the bright side, it tells you everything you need to know about these people.

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