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Re: The young, inexperienced engineers aiding DOGE

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Post by ck2 » Sun, Feb 02, 2025, 10:13 PM UTC

troelsSteegin wrote: post #16

https://doge.gov does not say anything about what the DOGE plan is, and https://www.usds.gov/ is not apparently up to date wrt DOGE. Is there something other than the Executive Order [0] that lays out concretely what DOGE intends to do? This group of engineers is doubtless skilled, but I don't seem them as the decision makers and planners here. [0] https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/01/esta...

Are they skilled? Or just arrogant and drunk on power?

Some of them most certainly could not pass US security clearance.

https://bsky.app/profile/jsweetli.bsky.social/post/3lh7nii7y...

Re: The young, inexperienced engineers aiding DOGE

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Post by twochillin » Sun, Feb 02, 2025, 10:19 PM UTC

why was this flagged?

Re: The young, inexperienced engineers aiding DOGE

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Post by rbanffy » Sun, Feb 02, 2025, 10:35 PM UTC

twochillin wrote: post #22

why was this flagged?

Having the word “Elon” seems to bring out the worst in us. I still believe we can have civil discussions about topics that might be considered taboo.

Re: The young, inexperienced engineers aiding DOGE

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Post by rbanffy » Sun, Feb 02, 2025, 10:37 PM UTC

ck2 wrote: post #13

Musk could not get US Security Clearance He cannot enter certain facilities or meetings at SpaceX because of that. Yet now he is bypassing that requirement. None of these people are elected or confirmed by the Senate and they are doing extremely sensitive things to the government That's not how any of this is supposed to work by law.

National secrets shouldn’t have been kept in a bathroom in Mar-a-Lago and, yet, here we are.

Re: The young, inexperienced engineers aiding DOGE

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Post by breadwinner » Sun, Feb 02, 2025, 10:51 PM UTC

> So this feels like a hostile takeover of the machinery of governments by the richest man in the world.

... and there's nothing anyone can do about it. Checks and balances have been neutralized.

Re: The young, inexperienced engineers aiding DOGE

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Post by [deleted] » Sun, Feb 02, 2025, 11:00 PM UTC

medler wrote: post #3

I don’t know how this will shake out, but I do worry that these 19-24 year olds, some of whom are known to HN for other achievements, are putting themselves in real legal jeopardy. Edit: by the way, this post isn’t off-topic. It is about the activities of the US Digital Service (now known as Doge), and the exploits of young hackers who came up through top tech companies. It has implications for information systems se…

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Re: The young, inexperienced engineers aiding DOGE

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Post by Tadpole9181 » Sun, Feb 02, 2025, 11:50 PM UTC

twochillin wrote: post #22

why was this flagged?

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Post by medler » Sun, Feb 02, 2025, 11:57 PM UTC

twochillin wrote: post #22

why was this flagged?

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Post by AnimalMuppet » Mon, Feb 03, 2025, 12:11 AM UTC

twochillin wrote: post #22

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Re: The young, inexperienced engineers aiding DOGE

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Post by Shekelphile » Mon, Feb 03, 2025, 12:43 AM UTC

TrackerFF wrote: post #11

If they're engaged in doing illegal stuff, at the federal level, I fully expect Trump to just pardon everyone involved. Maybe they're too deep in the Yarvin / Thield / Musk (Kool-Aid) sauce, but they should know better. This stuff will follow them for life.

They're directly attacking government infrastructure, including our intelligence apparatuses.

Even if they escape legal consequences they could become targeted for extrajudicial killings by intelligence agencies of the US and allies.