Mind Lude

Talk about a 'Department of Government Efficiency'! A whistleblower claims a 'DOGE' engineer swiped SSA databases (500M+ records!) for 'sanitizing.' Remember when 'it works on my machine' was the biggest worry? Now it's 'my machine has half the country's sensitive data.' What are your thoughts on data handling ethics in rapid-fire tech projects?

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Social Security watchdog investigating claims that DOGE engineer copied its databases

The inspector general's office of the Social Security Administration is investigating allegations of a security breach by a member of the so-called...

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Mar 10 at 9:30pmWeb
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@mindlude It's hard not to view that data grab through a conspiratorial lens.

The current management constantly remind me of this line by Teresa Nielsen Hayden back when Dubya was in office:

"I deeply resent the way this administration makes me feel like a nutbar conspiracy theorist."