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Re: DOGE worker’s code supports NLRB whistleblower

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Post by op00to »

lucasRW wrote: post #486
stevenwoo wrote: post #287

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Any guesses for best possible interpretion? The Russians have infiltrated their PCs with keyloggers and DOGE are working from insecure open networks. The worst possible interpretation is straightforward - they are working for the Russians as agents and let the Russians in or installed the keyloggers for Russia.

Yeah, like the APT that compromised O365 accounts from US gov entities a year or so ago, using residential proxies to go around Conditional Access Policies..., is now logging in straight from the Kremlin. :D

Is there a difference between a year ago and today? Is someone else sitting behind the resolute desk?

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Post by op00to »

bequanna wrote: post #292
mythrowaway49 wrote: post #263

this part of the whistleblower complaint seem way worse: " On or about March 11, 2025, NxGen metrics indicated abnormal usage at points the prior week. I saw way above baseline response times, and resource utilization showed increased network output above anywhere it had been historically – as far back as I could look. I noted that this lined up closely with the data out event. I also notice increased logins blocked…

This just seems odd. Why would they attempt a login from Russia (if it was indeed Russians)? It is incredibly cheap to use a VPN with a US residential IP.

Why? They want to be noticed, causing more chaos.

Re: DOGE worker’s code supports NLRB whistleblower

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Post by DaSHacka »

e40 wrote: post #547
DaSHacka wrote: post #417

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Sounds like another administration I know....

Ah, yes, the "both sides" argument. Yes, the Biden and Trump2 administrations are just the same. Move along...

When it comes to pardons, I actually believe Biden was significantly worse in that regard.

Re: DOGE worker’s code supports NLRB whistleblower

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Post by JumpCrisscross »

DrillShopper wrote: post #517
xoa wrote: post #503

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> I think Trump could simply pardon them, unfortunately. FWIW I think you're not correct here, or rather, it's not merely irrelevant but would actually harm them. The pardon power protects against criminal prosecution by the federal government. But it doesn't protect against mere embarrassment, nor against new actions performed after the pardon. Congress isn't prosecution, their inquiries are just about information f…

> in terms of "they can basically turn these folks' lives into a living hell of back-to-back hearings", pardons don't help with that one Trump has so thoroughly poisoned the well on the "weaponized DOJ / weaponized IRS / weaponized Congressional investigations" that the Democrats, having no spine, won't bother doing any of that.

Trump has removed the DoJ’s independence. The precedent is set to weaponise it.

Re: DOGE worker’s code supports NLRB whistleblower

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Post by [deleted] »

grandempire wrote: post #521
Terr_ wrote: post #464

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Well, if the legislature truly cannot make any statue affecting the President, that has some terrifying implications. It would mean a President is is legally permitted to ignore laws against raping a child on the sidewalk outside 1600 Pennsylvania avenue Ave then murdering all of Congress by blowing up the Capitol. Recently, a majority on the Supreme Court has claimed there's immunity for "Official Acts", but hasn't…

> cannot make any statue affecting the President, I didn’t say affecting - I said limiting the power of. A regulatory procedure the president is asked to follow is different than saying “we made this information off limits”. > President is is legally permitted to ignore laws against raping That’s been beat to death. He would face impeachment + removal from office.

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Post by BrenBarn »

Larrikin wrote: post #507
BrenBarn wrote: post #458

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In a sense, yes. I lean more and more toward the idea that we're not going to get out of this mess without "hitting rock bottom", so to speak. That means we have to somehow confront people with the reality of the laws we actually have, not the imaginary ones we've convinced ourselves we have. If we had those kinds of criminal prosecutions we might get riots in the streets and revolutions that would result in changes…

Do you also support criminal convictions for those going around due process, not presenting badges or any identification, and supporting a foreign concentration camp that indefinitely jails people who have not been convicted of a crime, just accused?

Definitely.

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Post by throw16180339 »

grandempire wrote: post #521
Terr_ wrote: post #464

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Well, if the legislature truly cannot make any statue affecting the President, that has some terrifying implications. It would mean a President is is legally permitted to ignore laws against raping a child on the sidewalk outside 1600 Pennsylvania avenue Ave then murdering all of Congress by blowing up the Capitol. Recently, a majority on the Supreme Court has claimed there's immunity for "Official Acts", but hasn't…

> cannot make any statue affecting the President, I didn’t say affecting - I said limiting the power of. A regulatory procedure the president is asked to follow is different than saying “we made this information off limits”. > President is is legally permitted to ignore laws against raping That’s been beat to death. He would face impeachment + removal from office.

> That’s been beat to death. He would face impeachment + removal from office.

Republicans didn't object to Trump's coup attempt, fraud convictions, past attempted rapes, or proven corruption. 70% of them believe that he won the 2020 election. There's no reason to believe that they'd impeach him for child rape unless she was the daughter of a prominent Republican. Trump would have the girl killed, send her parents to a gulag in El Salvador, and Fox News would call it fake news.

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Post by 77pt77 »

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…

> I bet this was just pasted into LLM with prompt to make it async, but if that worked why not

Vibe coding

> Original GPL3 license is gone. Obviously not something you would expect DOGE people to understand or respect.

Why would they? They don't give a FF about courts.

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Post by 77pt77 »

jychang wrote: post #484
progval wrote: post #444

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Archived repository: https://archive.softwareheritage.org/browse/origin/directory... You can download it as a Git repository from https://archive.softwareheritage.org/api/1/vault/git-bare/sw...

Legally, they're allowed to modify and use GPL code internally without redistributing the source. The only mistake was publishing the source code to a public git repo without the LICENSE file, which may be a GPL violation. I say "may", because I'm not sure if you have internal code on a public git or FTP server, is that consider "distributing"?

> publishing the source code to a public git repo without the LICENSE file, which may be a GPL violation.

Great. You can get a federal judge to sign on that.

Maybe they can be ordered to facilitate some kid of resolution.

I'm sure they are trembling as I write.

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Post by mmooss »

DrillShopper wrote: post #513
orochimaaru wrote: post #426

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Maybe. But none of those make him as much money as Tesla which is in the dumps with all the shenanigans. From a motivation perspective it seems more like rank stupidity than Machiavellian.

> But none of those make him as much money as Tesla which is in the dumps with all the shenanigans. Give Musk a year or two out of DOGE and it won't matter - Tesla will be back up after Musk isn't in the government spotlight. The voters in the US (who by and large are good little consumers) have the memory of a goldfish for things like this. You can't even get progressives to not eat at Chick-fil-A despite their foun…

> You can't even get progressives to not eat at Chick-fil-A despite their founders blantent homophobia. This incident is not going to keep people from buying Tesla in the long run.

That narrative is great at stopping people from taking action - I wonder who it comes from? In fact, companies bow to public pressure all the time. Look at those retreating from DEI or support of LGBTQ rights before Trump took office. One of the beer companies' marketing used a trans person and the transphobia, boycotts, etc. led to them firing people and dropping the trans person.

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