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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 1 month ago by silence7@slrpnk.net to technology@lemmy.world
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kikutwo@lemmy.world 1 month ago
zephorah@lemm.ee 1 month ago
Congress could shut this down, but not for much longer.
splinter@lemm.ee 1 month 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 1 month 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 1 month 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 1 month 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 1 month 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 1 month ago
Yet all americans are just rolling over
Snowclone@lemmy.world 1 month ago
That’s the point of the big lie and ‘never let them cool down’’ fascist tactics.
ivanafterall@lemmy.world 1 month ago
I’m ready to follow your lead!
obinice@lemmy.world 1 month ago
They thought they were free.
intensely_human@lemm.ee 1 month ago
Here’s a spooky computer gif to really drive the point home
sbv@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
tbf, those systems are now effectively haunted
cantstopthesignal@sh.itjust.works 1 month 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 1 month ago
Normally I think someone should take down that orange fuck. But this degenerate would probably be more useful target.
Viri4thus@feddit.org 1 month ago
Us gun people*
Government taken over by foreign billionaire - I sleep
Children frolicking about at school - raaaaaaage
sik0fewl@lemmy.ca 1 month ago
On the bright side, it tells you everything you need to know about these people.
Sanctus@lemmy.world 1 month 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 1 month ago
Millions are probably insufficient.