• SinningStromgald@lemmy.world
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      16 days ago

      I’m sure the guy Nazi who leaked company secrets totes didn’t keep a bit of data or leave a backdoor for himself like he claimed to do at a previous job.

  • Showroom7561@lemmy.ca
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    16 days ago

    Much of DOGE’s work is avoiding oversight and transparency…

    How can any voter be OK with this?

  • Buelldozer@lemmy.today
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    16 days ago

    Elon / DOGE accessing the data is an obvious outcome of the US Federal Government having far more data on its citizens than it was ever supposed to.

    The real problem here isn’t that Elon is digging his grubby mitts in it it’s the untold numbers of other people who’ve been quietly doing the same thing since the computer age began.

    Be angry but let’s solve the actual problem here and that problem isn’t Elon / DOGE.

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      16 days ago

      There can be two problems at once. It is a problem that the information was collected in the first place, and it is also a problem that Elon Musk now has access to it. Those things are both bad. I get that government overreach has been our biggest problem for a long time, but that doesn’t mean Musk is incapable of being an even bigger one given the opportunity, which he certainly seems to have now.

    • GenderNeutralBro@lemmy.sdf.org
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      16 days ago

      The only possible silver lining to all this is that perhaps “normal” people will finally start to care about the problems techies have been screaming about for 20+ years now.

      It was inevitable that a bad actor would gain access eventually, because there is no such a thing as an organization that you can trust in perpetuity. That obviously doesn’t excuse the actual bad actors that now have access.