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DOGE engineer's credentials found in past public leaks from info-stealer malware

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FirmwareBurner wrote: post #148
abouthn wrote: post #111

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Remember that checklist meme from /.? The “You seem to be advocating/here is why it will not work”? Well, you’ve burned a bit of time on HN with the karma you’ve accrued. The non-conspiratorial truth is that if you go back and read HN over a longer period of time, it amounts to people parroting other people’s unhinged takes. Least offensive is tech, which is merely juvenile. But the other topics, especially medical o…

We're being downvoted to oblivion, but notice nobody is saying we are wrong?

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Re: DOGE engineer's credentials found in past public leaks from info-stealer malware

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Post by blitzar »

lesuorac wrote: post #147
blitzar wrote: post #92

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Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake. The democrats don't have the numbers - even if they did, the more ridiculous the whole thing gets the better for them it is.

Siting around and do nothing is going to come back and bite incumbent democrats in a couple years. Sure they might not lose the general election to a republican but their primary is going to be painful.

Reactionary politics and hysterical screeching is what got the democrats into the problems they are currently face. Repeating the same mistakes over and over again is the definition of insanity.

Re: DOGE engineer's credentials found in past public leaks from info-stealer malware

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Post by TrapLord_Rhodo »

itsdrewmiller wrote: post #132
TrapLord_Rhodo wrote: post #93

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Do you actually believe that? Do you not think that at least SOME OF THEM, are working their asses off to save american tax payer dollars? Can you point to any of the contracts in the wall of savings that have saved billions of dollars and disagree with any of them? https://doge.gov/savings

You can't trust their claimed savings either. https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/13/us/politics/doge-contract...

show me an example? Go to the link i provided and show me where they misrepresented savings. You can go directly to FPDS-NG from their saving reports.

NYT is a trash media outlet, which obviously leans everything anti-elon.

Re: DOGE engineer's credentials found in past public leaks from info-stealer malware

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Post by belter »

satanfirst wrote: post #166
belter wrote: post #66

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How bad can it be? Be pardoned by a SCOTUS immune president?

Ask Rudy Giuliani or any architect foolish enough to take a project from him. While Trump might know more about protecting people who help him than he did then, it would be out of character for him to expend the time it takes to sign something if his benefit in the transaction is over.

The 6 January rioters who got 20 years in prison, after beating and indirectly causing deaths at the capitol police have ALL been pardoned and are walking free.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/January_6_United_States_Capito...

"...The extraordinary pardons and commutations extended to those who committed both violent and nonviolent crimes on Jan. 6, including assaulting police officers and seditious conspiracy..."

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/20/us/politics/trump-pardons...

Re: DOGE engineer's credentials found in past public leaks from info-stealer malware

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Post by tbugrara »

amelius wrote: post #119
akimbostrawman wrote: post #74

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Is the point good enough to elaborate further preferably with actual proof instead of just opinion?

If it looks like a duck, walks like a duck, swims like a duck and quacks like a duck, then at some point you gotta assume it's a duck. No need to run a DNA test.

This perspective is ripe for being manipulated. Use critical thinking and learn to sit with uncertainty.

Re: DOGE engineer's credentials found in past public leaks from info-stealer malware

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Post by guiambros »

Garbage clickbait article.

Buried down the text, they have the plausible deniability disclaimer:

"As Lee notes, the presence of an individual’s credentials in such logs isn’t automatically an indication that the individual himself was compromised or used a weak password. In many cases, such data is exposed through database compromises that hit the service provider. The steady stream of published credentials for Schutt, however, is a clear indication that the credentials he has used over a decade or more have been publicly known at various points."

Of course "credentials have been exposed": the vast majority of sites have been hacked. It doesn't mean this person used the same credentials everywhere, AND that they didn't use 2FA, AND that the credentials matter in the first place. And, of course, this has absolutely nothing to do with malware.

Shame on you ARS for publishing purely speculative posts.

Re: DOGE engineer's credentials found in past public leaks from info-stealer malware

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Post by [deleted] »

tbugrara wrote: post #175
amelius wrote: post #119

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If it looks like a duck, walks like a duck, swims like a duck and quacks like a duck, then at some point you gotta assume it's a duck. No need to run a DNA test.

This perspective is ripe for being manipulated. Use critical thinking and learn to sit with uncertainty.

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Re: DOGE engineer's credentials found in past public leaks from info-stealer malware

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Post by amelius »

tbugrara wrote: post #175
amelius wrote: post #119

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If it looks like a duck, walks like a duck, swims like a duck and quacks like a duck, then at some point you gotta assume it's a duck. No need to run a DNA test.

This perspective is ripe for being manipulated. Use critical thinking and learn to sit with uncertainty.

> Use critical thinking and learn to sit with uncertainty.

Maybe tell that to the guy in the white house. I'm tired of being held to much higher standards than that person. There are limits.

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Post by psadauskas »

TrapLord_Rhodo wrote: post #161
psadauskas wrote: post #154

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You misspelled Reagan. (Though to be fair, every president since Truman has escalated things with Russia/USSR, except maybe Clinton. Reagan just did more than most.) > You don't think trump is actively involved in negotations[sic] with russia to stop all this madness? No, I think Trump is doing whatever Putin wants him to do.

No other president has given explicit permission to launch american missles and use american guidance systems to launch missles into russian territory... Besides biden. What are you talking about? And you forgot... besides Trump. because trumps not a warmonger, people like to act like he's on the side of the russians. People have lost their minds.

> trumps not a warmonger

In the last 3 months, Trump has threatened to invade:

- Greenland - Canada - Mexico - Panama - Cuba

> people like to act like he's on the side of the russians

Trump has said that Ukraine is the one that started the war, and the "deal" he negotiated to end the war excluded Ukraine from the discussion and would give Russia everything it asked for.

> People have lost their minds.

You're right on that point, but its probably not the people you're thinking of.

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Post by tomhow »

bmacho wrote: post #27
worldsayshi wrote: post #12

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> I am not sure why we are falling for this click baity garbage, over and over. Because it's easier to create and broadcast bait than to filter it.

Until HN improves, I propose that we flag moronic titles (misleading, clickbait, just annoyingly moronic, and so on). In the long term HN should do something about it, e.g. editoralized titles.

I've updated the title to something less sensationalist and more representative of the article's content.

HN does have a policy of using the original title from the submitted article, unless it is misleading or linkbait, and we try to be rigorous in enforcing it.

Users can help us by emailing us (hn@ycombinator.com) when they see a case where a title seems to be misleading or linkbait.

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