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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 EvanAnderson »

alabastervlog wrote: post #36
MOARDONGZPLZ wrote: post #11

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The complaint alleges that DOGE was able to get unlimited-permissions admin accounts that were not subject to logging. They also downloaded external repositories that gave users of those repos lots of different IPs. The complaint further alleges that the DOGE person used the combination of these things to "download... more than 10 gigabytes of data from the agency’s case files, a database that includes reams of sensi…

And they fucking illegally fired the IGs who are supposed to act as watchdogs for and light-shiners-on-of blatantly-illegal activity like this in the executive. The ones we added after Nixon's crimes. It was one of the first actions of the administration, blanket firing without actual cause, which is supposed to be required, and without the required notice-period to Congress. That should have exhausted any benefit of…

I wish the firings of the IGs was something that "Joe Sixpack" understood. Honestly, even that the IGs exist(ed).

(It wouldn't change the opinions of anybody who matters, I suppose.)

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Post by darknavi »

dgellow wrote: post #123
willio58 wrote: post #10

The fact that they left these packages public on GitHub.. guys you do know you can make things private right? Just shows how dumb these people are honestly

Not that it matters in this specific case, but on GitHub privated forks aren’t fully private: https://docs.github.com/en/pull-requests/collaborating-with-...

It's git. Just clone and push to a new, private repo (on or off of GitHub) without clicking "fork".

Re: DOGE worker’s code supports NLRB whistleblower

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Post by Aloisius »

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

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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

Can't pardon state crimes nor cases of impeachment.

Arguably, if you impeach someone in public office, even if they aren't convicted by the Senate, any pardon of those same acts becomes moot and they can be tried in court for the same offenses. At least, that's what the DoJ suggested in 2000.

Re: DOGE worker’s code supports NLRB whistleblower

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Post by FireBeyond »

bilbo0s wrote: post #121
wmf wrote: post #75

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Yeah, no.

I'm not going to go 'gentle' on the team of clowns who have done things like make employees work for 36 hours straight to issue RIF notices while shouting at them for "incompetence", or "created new admin accounts that were within minutes attempting to log in from Russian IPs, immediately after demanding all logging be turned off", or "repeatedly lied about savings and contracts on their own website" in some ... "assume good faith" type scenario.

Whatever good faith they deserved, they burned within days (hours, even) of being let loose.

They're already plenty of evidence that they've exfiltrated sensitive information to a variety of non-government entities that are not even remotely entitled to that data, either at NLRB or elsewhere.

Your claim is that "it's entirely possible that these are all just innocent bureaucratic errors" and I would put it to you that that claim, in the face of everything already known, also needs substantiation, and yes, not that thin veneer of Wikipedia-like "assume the absolute possible best intention, regardless of plausibility" that we're getting.

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Post by ein0p »

bigyabai wrote: post #119
cpursley wrote: post #112

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Whistleblowers are claiming it's sedition: https://www.npr.org/2025/04/15/nx-s1-5355896/doge-nlrb-elon-... > The employees grew concerned that the NLRB's confidential data could be exposed, particularly after they started detecting suspicious log-in attempts from an IP address in Russia, according to the disclosure.

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Re: DOGE worker’s code supports NLRB whistleblower

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Post by vt_mruhlin »

willio58 wrote: post #10

The fact that they left these packages public on GitHub.. guys you do know you can make things private right? Just shows how dumb these people are honestly

What? They reused public packages that have been public for years. One guy made a public fork with some changes. Is that not what open source is intended for?

Re: DOGE worker’s code supports NLRB whistleblower

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Post by magicalist »

pests wrote: post #127
magicalist wrote: post #110

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> 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.

Is the hostility really required? The comment was about last-day pardons, not pardons in general. Its a topic many presidents have gotten flak or attention for.

What hostility? I was asking if they were really confused or if they were asking rhetorically. If they were actually confused, the answer is yes.

edit: oh, I guess "and Donald Trump is president until the end of his term" could come off as patronizing. I meant it just as a statement in a chain of reasoning

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Post by ceejayoz »

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?

El Salvador seems very willing to take people off our hands for mere allegations.

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Post by shakna »

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…

> Furthermore, on Monday, April 7, 2025, while my client and my team were preparing this disclosure, someone physically taped a threatening note to Mr. Berulis’ home door with photographs – taken via a drone – of him walking in his neighborhood. The threatening note made clear reference to this very disclosure he was preparing for you

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Post by mschuster91 »

sanderjd wrote: post #91
wmf wrote: post #75

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Thing is: Everything they're doing is against the rules. Except they aren't "rules", they are laws.

The problem is, those tasked with upholding and enforcing the laws aren't doing their job (Congress), are swamped with a deluge of blatant lawbreaking but still have to maintain professional decorum to not open themselves up to attacks (the justice system), or are outright corrupt (higher level federal courts including, sadly, the Supreme Court).
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