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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.
Submitted 3 months ago by silence7@slrpnk.net to technology@lemmy.world
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kikutwo@lemmy.world 3 months ago
zephorah@lemm.ee 3 months ago
Congress could shut this down, but not for much longer.
splinter@lemm.ee 3 months 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.
MimicJar@lemmy.world 3 months 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.
zarkanian@sh.itjust.works 3 months 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.
Naia@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 months 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.
crusa187@lemmy.ml 3 months 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.
Punchshark@lemmy.ca 3 months ago
Yet all americans are just rolling over
Snowclone@lemmy.world 3 months ago
That’s the point of the big lie and ‘never let them cool down’’ fascist tactics.
ivanafterall@lemmy.world 3 months ago
I’m ready to follow your lead!
obinice@lemmy.world 3 months ago
They thought they were free.
intensely_human@lemm.ee 3 months ago
Here’s a spooky computer gif to really drive the point home
sbv@sh.itjust.works 3 months ago
tbf, those systems are now effectively haunted
cantstopthesignal@sh.itjust.works 3 months 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.
kokesh@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Normally I think someone should take down that orange fuck. But this degenerate would probably be more useful target.
Viri4thus@feddit.org 3 months ago
Us gun people*
Government taken over by foreign billionaire - I sleep
Children frolicking about at school - raaaaaaage
sik0fewl@lemmy.ca 3 months ago
On the bright side, it tells you everything you need to know about these people.
Sanctus@lemmy.world 3 months 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.
PlexSheep@infosec.pub 3 months ago
Millions are probably insufficient.