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Just another lawyer who cares about other people & our country (US)

Keeping up on news & developments here

Always looking for more ways to #Resist & fight FOR rule of law, people, & world AGAINST current Admin

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Easy, pretty quick article to read - well worth the time

What journalists have already uncovered that so-called "DOGE" has done is worse than I'd expected could already be proven.

As the article explains, it's only going to get worse.
Clip from article "Remember Treasury’s reassurance that no payments would be blocked? That appears to have been, at best, aspirational. At worst, deliberately misleading. Marshall’s sources indicate that the code changes have a very specific purpose: creating mechanisms to block payments while hiding the evidence." Clip from article "Let’s be clear about what we’re seeing: deliberately obscured payment-blocking capabilities being added to absolutely critical government infrastructure by an inexperienced developer with minimal oversight. In cybersecurity terms, that’s not just a backdoor — it’s flashing warning lights of an approaching catastrophe. And the timing couldn’t be worse." Clip from article "And what was one of Trump’s first moves upon taking office? Firing the team investigating that breach. So here we are: an inexperienced developer, fresh from working on ExTwitter’s search tools, is implementing hidden payment-blocking capabilities in the federal government’s $6 trillion payment system, while the very experts who understand these systems are being pushed out, and the teams responsible for investigating security breaches are being disbanded. What could go wrong? Hopefully, for everyone’s sake, nothing goes wrong at all. It sounds like career staff are doing their best to actually protect the system from harm. But, this isn’t a rocket ship that you can have blow up a few times before you figure out the problems. So… fingers crossed?"
February 7, 2025 at 12:39 AM