DOGE has 'god mode' access to government data • Hacker News Board

Re: DOGE has 'god mode' access to government data

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Post by imperial_march » Thu, Feb 20, 2025, 10:25 PM UTC

andy_ppp wrote: post #706

If you think this data won’t be used to disenfranchise and target democratic voters and give the GOP perpetual rule, I have a bridge to sell you. “Oh no! Big mistake we cancelled hundreds of thousands of people from voting just before the election! It just happens to be 99.9% Democrats in swing states who all happen to be marked as dead in all government systems!” It will be similar to Cambridge Analytica - with all…

illegal aliens, and the NGOs who have been bringing them in and supporting them, that the democrats brought in as future voters so they would have complete control, Well, no more funding for them!

At least, not from America! It's no secret that these NGOs are now trying to attach themselves to Brussels to continue ops in the US, leeches will be leeches

Re: DOGE has 'god mode' access to government data

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Post by imperial_march » Thu, Feb 20, 2025, 10:26 PM UTC

jsutton wrote: post #834

isthisfoss wrote: post #781

Why is this a bad thing if their job is to audit budget and spending? The article also does not go into technical details on what this supposed god mode actually is.

They aren't auditing anything. Programmers/engineers don't audit budget and spending. If they were doing an audit, they would have accountants on their team, which they don't. If you bring coders/engineers into a system, it's for accessing/manipulating data/code/infrastructure. This is an enormous and unprecedented overreach.

They're data scientists amongst other things, you need to tie different data tables and sources together to get hotspot reports.

Re: DOGE has 'god mode' access to government data

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Post by imperial_march » Thu, Feb 20, 2025, 10:28 PM UTC

emsign wrote: post #505

DOGE is a joke

People being convinced it's a bad idea, By the same politicians and beaurocrats who have wasting, laundering and getting kickbacks, They are the joke.

"Blame the smoke detector, not the fire" people are demoralised people driven insane

Re: DOGE has 'god mode' access to government data

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Post by imperial_march » Thu, Feb 20, 2025, 10:30 PM UTC

rad_gruchalski wrote: post #795

It will all land in Moscow. Or Beijing. Have fun.

China already had full access (and extracted) all treasury information in a recent cyber attack. Look it up

Re: DOGE has 'god mode' access to government data

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Post by imperial_march » Thu, Feb 20, 2025, 10:31 PM UTC

lucasRW wrote: post #99

Isn't this the idea of an audit ?...

Yeah exactly.

The article is hyperbola and ultimately trying to push the "Auditing and finding corruption is bad"

Re: DOGE has 'god mode' access to government data

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Post by imperial_march » Thu, Feb 20, 2025, 10:32 PM UTC

thrownaway561 wrote: post #349

I honestly have not a single idea why there wasn't this type of department before monitoring and auditing everything.

Because then they would have found the fraud, and some very powerful people would be out of money....

Re: DOGE has 'god mode' access to government data

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Post by seemaze » Thu, Feb 20, 2025, 10:33 PM UTC

jart wrote: post #862

simpaticoder wrote: post #811

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I've worked with older governmental systems, and chances are they are running a wide variety of systems, some of which, the oldest and most critical, are probably written in COBOL running on IBM mainframe hardware. In those environments, there is no real distinction between "database" and "application". COBOL systems are very file- and batch-oriented, and are "monolithic" in the extremist sense. The technology itself…

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If it ain’t broke.. move fast and break things?

Re: DOGE has 'god mode' access to government data

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Post by imperial_march » Thu, Feb 20, 2025, 10:33 PM UTC

mrayycombi wrote: post #331

I think I have a hunch what Trump is going to do next. He's going to fill these fired probationary workers with new loyal probationary workers hand picked by him. He will then make these new probationary workers in charge of the agency. If they don't do what he wants, they can be fired at will.

Yes, good.

Re: DOGE has 'god mode' access to government data

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Post by imperial_march » Thu, Feb 20, 2025, 10:34 PM UTC

buttocks wrote: post #558

Musk would have liked to be the US president but can’t because he’s South African. So he conned the stupidest but most powerful man alive into letting him be acting president.

You have to stop being your information from CNN and Reddit. It destroys your critical thinking skills and ultimately drives some people insane

Re: DOGE has 'god mode' access to government data

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Post by imperial_march » Thu, Feb 20, 2025, 10:36 PM UTC

ksynwa wrote: post #3

What's Elon's beef with USAID? I would think he would go after something like food stamps first owing to his libertarian ethos. Maybe he sees USAID as a completely benevolent handout and a waste of money? I cannot begin to understand why.

Less than 10% went to the needy. Most of the rest was either wasteful, political or a chain of NGOs performing kickbacks.

They were funding censorship campaigns on American citizens etc