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DOGE worker’s code supports NLRB whistleblower

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Re: DOGE worker’s code supports NLRB whistleblower

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Post by plandis »

progbits wrote: post #45

> Ge0rg3’s code is “open source,” in that anyone can copy it and reuse it non-commercially. As it happens, there is a newer version of this project that was derived or “forked” from Ge0rg3’s code — called “async-ip-rotator” — and it was committed to GitHub in January 2025 by DOGE captain Marko Elez. Original code: https://github.com/Ge0rg3/requests-ip-rotator Forked: https://github.com/markoelez/async-ip-rotator Code…

GPLv3 requires the license to be kept. Seems reportable to the owner of the repo and or GitHub.

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Post by sanderjd »

XorNot wrote: post #84
tw04 wrote: post #70

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Root on Linux isn’t exempt from logging. I also don’t know any enterprise that allows admin accounts to bypass logging. There is no legitimate justification for this request.

root on Linux can just kill the log forwarder and erase the relevant logs, or refill them with junk.

Yes. A more competent hack would have been to use their superuser permissions to do that kind of thing.

But instead they requested that logging be disabled, thus outing themselves as acting in bad faith.

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Post by Alupis »

happyopossum wrote: post #56
tw04 wrote: post #3

Someone needs to go to prison over this. It’s not just a misunderstanding, it is an intentional attack on every US citizen.

You’d have to prove a crime here to send someone to jail, correct? What would the charges be?

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Re: DOGE worker’s code supports NLRB whistleblower

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Post by apical_dendrite »

jiggawatts wrote: post #58

This is much ado about nothing. The article tries to very hard to make something ordinary sound nefarious. This appears to be DOGE employees simply doing their job. You may not agree with what they’re doing in a political sense, but if you were tasked with the same problem you’d come up with a nearly identical solution. For example: “tenant admin” is probably the special role that can bypass access control (not audit…

Do you also delete logs, fire the cybersecurity team, and stonewall breach investigations?

https://www.npr.org/2025/04/15/nx-s1-5355896/doge-nlrb-elon-...

Re: DOGE worker’s code supports NLRB whistleblower

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Post by Aeolun »

j2kun wrote: post #73
candiddevmike wrote: post #23

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The people who need to see/understand this live in a different reality where uncomfortable things like this are ETL'd into righteous anger towards people they don't like. This is the deep state they've been worried about, this is the boot that will tread on them. EDIT: parent comment was highest ranked comment for the article and is now at the bottom?

A twisted justification for suggesting someone who broke serious laws not face consequences. We live in a nation of laws, whether or not conspiracy-minded individuals prefer to follow them.

> We live in a nation of laws

You stopped living in a nation of laws a while ago. Now you live in a nation of might makes right.

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Post by rob_c »

jiggawatts wrote: post #58

This is much ado about nothing. The article tries to very hard to make something ordinary sound nefarious. This appears to be DOGE employees simply doing their job. You may not agree with what they’re doing in a political sense, but if you were tasked with the same problem you’d come up with a nearly identical solution. For example: “tenant admin” is probably the special role that can bypass access control (not audit…

Omg they also saw spikes in DNS traffic and high load during days exfiltration ahead of audit...

Clearly the (system) auditing infrastructure wasn't robust enough to still provide a lot of monitoring even in the service is being managed by someone else...

Also a several hundred line teardown of a 300line file is exactly what is wrong with some coders. Not having a CI/CL for every single short tool written once to do a job is called being productive...

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Post by cpursley »

apical_dendrite wrote: post #49
mingus88 wrote: post #34

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Or they are emboldened in knowing there will be absolutely no consequences. Go look at the list of pardons this administration has handed out. These guys won’t even be charged.

Or they think what they're doing is righteous and they're proud of it. It isn't - DOGE is responsible for hundreds of thousands of deaths through cuts to health programs - but I suspect they are deluding themselves into thinking it is.

> DOGE is responsible for hundreds of thousands of deaths through cuts to health programs

That seems like a lot. Source?

Re: DOGE worker’s code supports NLRB whistleblower

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Post by paulryanrogers »

sremani wrote: post #92
watwut wrote: post #82

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In that case, you and departments you work for are either breaking the law regularly or working with public data anyway. Besides, no one needs unmonitored write access for audit. Even less DOGE who does no audit and don't have knowledge how to do audit. Audits are supposed to he traceable.

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Whistleblowers are protected by law. If their data is being exfiltrated then they may become targets of harassment.

Re: DOGE worker’s code supports NLRB whistleblower

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Post by magicalist »

geraldwhen wrote: post #85
satanfirst wrote: post #72

Earlier quoted context omitted.

They are betting the system won't go after them later which is a very bad bet if they eventually give back the executive branch and an even worse bet if the power they support never gives it back. About as brilliant as being in a photo with Stalin.

Trump can wait until the last day in office then issue pardons for any possible crimes, right? Biden did something similar I believe

> Trump can wait until the last day in office then issue pardons for any possible crimes, right?

Is your mental model of the pardon process actually confused? Yes, the president can unilaterally issue pardons, and Donald Trump is president until the end of his term, so he can issue pardons on his last day in office.

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