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Promise made.
Promise kept.
Trump did that.
Back at ya, son.
Promise made.
Promise kept.
Trump did that.
"PBS and NPR receive a small portion of their funding from federal sources, with the radio broadcaster pulling in 1% directly from US government sources. PBS’s budget includes 16% of its funding from the federal government. The networks also receive money from sponsors and individual donors..."
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/trump...190603422.html
Yikes I guess they'll have to shut down now!
lol you're angry because News Hour and All Things Considered use words you can't understand.
Geewillakers, and all these decades we was led to believe that every dime they got was gov't given. No damn wonder they would never cede a point of contention and give both sides side.
Nary a one. Nary.
Just shows ta go ya.
We salve our anger by bearing witness as old man Trump beat that breed like a $3 November 5th last.
when you do a forensic audit, you don't exfiltrate sensitive information and cover your tracks like a black hat hacker
all these DOGE characters need to go to prison for what they're doing with our data
https://www.npr.org/2025/04/15/nx-s1...pacex-securityBut according to an official whistleblower disclosure shared with Congress and other federal overseers that was obtained by NPR, subsequent interviews with the whistleblower and records of internal communications, technical staff members were alarmed about what DOGE engineers did when they were granted access, particularly when those staffers noticed a e in data leaving the agency. It's possible that the data included sensitive information on unions, ongoing legal cases and corporate secrets — data that four labor law experts tell NPR should almost never leave the NLRB and that has nothing to do with making the government more efficient or cutting spending.
Meanwhile, according to the disclosure and records of internal communications, members of the DOGE team asked that their activities not be logged on the system and then appeared to try to cover their tracks behind them, turning off monitoring tools and manually deleting records of their access — evasive behavior that several cybersecurity experts interviewed by NPR compared to what criminal or state-sponsored hackers might do.
Ya's got to have the House, sonny-boy. Careful though about that...cuz once you got that House the gloves are comin' off and we're gonna have us a time then.
See ya in the street, kipper snapper.
DOGE wrecks absolutely critical stuff
Could the private sector do this? Sure
But cutting off the money without a ready replacement would be reckless
"CVE is a cornerstone of cybersecurity, and any gaps in CVE support will put our critical infrastructure and national security at unacceptable risk," Luta Security founder and CEO Katie Moussouris, who pioneered Microsoft's vulnerability disclosure program, told The Register.
"All industries worldwide depend on the CVE program to keep their heads above water when it comes to managing threats, so an abrupt halt like this would be like depriving the cybersecurity industry of oxygen and expecting it to spontaneously sprout gills," Moussouris said.
It basically works like this: When an individual researcher or an organization discovers a new bug in some product, a CVE program partner — there are currently a few hundred across 40 countries — is asked to assess the vulnerability report and assign a unique CVE identifier for the flaw if and as necessary.
The program is sponsored, and largely funded by the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, aka CISA, under the umbrella of the US Department of Homeland Security.
"I can say that, having been in this industry for longer than CVEs themselves, it won't be good," Dustin Childs, head of threat awareness at Trend Micro's Zero Day Initiative, told The Register.
"Before CVEs, each company referred to vulnerabilities using their own vernacular," he added. "Customers were confused about whether they were protected or impacted from a particular bug. And was a time when there were much fewer companies and infinitely fewer bugs."
To put this in perspective: More than 40,000 new CVEs were published last year.
"If MITRE were to lose funding for the CVE, we can expect considerable confusion again until someone else picks up the flag," Childs continued, noting that this would require some sort of industry consortium — but nothing along those lines currently exists.
"Vulnerability management will become a mess as enterprises struggle to confirm they are in compliance with regulations and directives," he said. "Let's hope this is resolved quickly."https://www.theregister.com/2025/04/...nding_for_cve/The CVE program is a critical resource globally used by nearly every organization in the world, so the implications of a pause will have downstream implications for security tooling, security teams, and every organization that cares about security
I wonder how El0n has hacked our government
just a crook through and through
in the article, one guy claims his odometer was running 3x faster than actual miles traveled
https://www.thestreet.com/automotive...ge-car-repairs
black bag hackers don't observe best practices
https://www.npr.org/2025/04/15/nx-s1...pacex-securityBerulis said he and several colleagues saw a black SUV and police escort enter the garage, after which building security let the DOGE staffers in. They interacted with a small number of staffers, never introducing themselves to most of the IT team.
Berulis says he was told by colleagues that DOGE employees demanded the highest level of access, what are called "tenant owner level" accounts inside the independent agency's computer systems, with essentially unrestricted permission to read, copy and alter data, according to Berulis' disclosure.
When an IT staffer suggested a streamlined process to activate those accounts in a way that would let their activities be tracked, in accordance with NLRB security policies, the IT staffers were told to stay out of DOGE's way, the disclosure continues.
For cybersecurity professionals, a failure to log activity is a cardinal sin and contradicts best practices as recommended by the National Ins ute of Standards and Technology and the Department of Homeland Security's Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, as well as the FBI and the National Security Agency.
"That was a huge red flag," said Berulis. "That's something that you just don't do. It violates every core concept of security and best practice."
El0n wants to set up a financial panopticon even for private recipients of federal funding
DOGE has already murked one private nonprofit and stole its HQ
https://www.washingtonpost.com/natio...era-ins ute/"According to (Vera) ins ute representatives, a man who identified himself as Cavanaugh said on the phone call that DOGE wants to have teams assigned to every ins ute and agency that receives federal funds through the congressional appropriations process."
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Vera: what's your legal authority to do this?
DOGE: there's no need to get into details...
"It's not an AI company."
-snacks
https://x.com/motorhueso/status/1910852302648279349
^ so who does DOGE need to cut to make that okay?
Or have they already done it
https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2025...struction.htmlKeep in mind that DOGE’s aim is not to reduce inefficiency. It’s to reduce government operations in a very big way so as to:
Immiserate the poor and others DOGE deems to be burdensome…like Social Security beneficiaries who paid into the system, often over decades
Eliminate or wreck government functions so that the private sector can take over. But as we know, the government has been on an outsourcing kick for decades, so the idea that functions now operated at the Federal level can be done better by outsiders is suspect. This campaign is all about the opportunity for looting, and the harm to the operation of commerce and society be damned.
DOGE as a fraud: Claiming savings while increasing costs. We highlighted an earlier DOGE spreadsheet that claimed to show the source and amount of DOGE’s asserted cost reduction and showed that many of the biggest items were false. For instance, DOGE took credit for contacts that had already been terminated, and on top of that, cited the maximum authorized amount, when the actual expenditures were lower, often greatly so. DOGE then greatly reduced the information it presents so as to preserve its ability to lie.DOGE as destruction: Tearing down the highly efficient Social Security Administration, as opposed to taking on the pork machine of defense spendingDOGE as fraud: Taking credit for finding abuses so well known they’ve been the subject of Congressional hearings, and resulted from Trump 1.0 expanded unemployment benefits. From Associated Press:
The latest government waste touted by billionaire Elon Musk’s cost-cutting Department of Government Efficiency is hundreds of millions of dollars in fraudulent unemployment claims it purportedly uncovered.
One problem: Federal investigators already found what appears to be the same fraud, years earlier and on a far greater scale…
“They’re trying to spin this narrative of, ‘Oh, government is inefficient and government is stupid and they’re catching these things that the government didn’t catch,’” says Michele Evermore, who worked on unemployment issues at the U.S. Department of Labor during the administration of former President Joe Biden.
“They’re finding fraud that was marked as fraud and saying they found out it was fraud….
DOGE as fraud: After loudly promising transparency, DOGE is anything but.From Politico:
DOGE KEEPS IT UNDER WRAPS: The battle to pierce the veil of secrecy surrounding DOGE and its operations is coming to a head in several lawsuits…The entire Politico piece, which goes through several cases of persistent evasiveness and misdirection, is worth reading.
Many of the anti-DOGE….lawyers are trying to answer questions like: What is the basic structure of DOGE? Which officials were involved in cutting-and-slashing efforts? And what sort of access does DOGE have to sensitive agency systems?…
But the Justice Department is fighting vigorously to shield DOGE from having to divulge that information, despite Trump and ELON MUSK’s repeated assurances about transparency. The administration has refused to provide testimony from virtually every official that plaintiffs have tried to depose — and especially from people who work for DOGE.
DOGE as fraud: After loudly promising transparency, DOGE is anything but.From Politico:
DOGE KEEPS IT UNDER WRAPS: The battle to pierce the veil of secrecy surrounding DOGE and its operations is coming to a head in several lawsuits…The entire Politico piece, which goes through several cases of persistent evasiveness and misdirection, is worth reading.
Many of the anti-DOGE….lawyers are trying to answer questions like: What is the basic structure of DOGE? Which officials were involved in cutting-and-slashing efforts? And what sort of access does DOGE have to sensitive agency systems?…
But the Justice Department is fighting vigorously to shield DOGE from having to divulge that information, despite Trump and ELON MUSK’s repeated assurances about transparency. The administration has refused to provide testimony from virtually every official that plaintiffs have tried to depose — and especially from people who work for DOGE.
DOGE as a fraud: Endangering national security, stealing data apparently to target opponents like organized labor. This is a much bigger caper than the Watergate break-in, but hacking is so common that even when insiders do it to abuse their power, the outrage is muted. From NPR which broke the story:
In the first days of March, a team of advisers from President Trump’s new Department of Government Efficiency initiative arrived at the Southeast Washington, D.C., headquarters of the National Labor Relations Board.Threats against the whistleblower have a guilty look:
The small, independent federal agency investigates and adjudicates complaints about unfair labor practices. It stores reams of potentially sensitive data, from confidential information about employees who want to form unions to proprietary business information.
The DOGE employees, who are effectively led by White House adviser and billionaire tech CEO Elon Musk, appeared to have their sights set on accessing the NLRB’s internal systems….
But according to an official whistleblower disclosure shared with Congress and other federal overseers that was obtained by NPR, subsequent interviews with the whistleblower and records of internal communications, technical staff members were alarmed about what DOGE engineers did when they were granted access, particularly when those staffers noticed a e in data leaving the agency. It’s possible that the data included sensitive information on unions, ongoing legal cases and corporate secrets — data that four labor law experts tell NPR should almost never leave the NLRB and that has nothing to do with making the government more efficient or cutting spending.
Meanwhile, according to the disclosure and records of internal communications, members of the DOGE team asked that their activities not be logged on the system and then appeared to try to cover their tracks behind them, turning off monitoring tools and manually deleting records of their access — evasive behavior that several cybersecurity experts interviewed by NPR compared to what criminal or state-sponsored hackers might do.
crazy. an NLRB whistleblower who shared concerns about DOGE’s activities with government officials was subjected to attempted blackmail and/or surveillance, likely by DOGE staff, in retaliation.
https://x.com/NatPurser/status/1912199580038418477
DOGE as incompetent: exposing logins. Leaving tech doors unlocked is either incredibly amateurish or done deliberately to get something in return.
DOGE as fraud: Forcing resignation of tech experts, thus risking cyber attacks. People who actually know something about the relevant en y and have some tech chops might show up DOGE, and worse, rat out to external parties how DOGE is doing a piss poor job. One fresh case is the resignation of DoD ‘SWAT team of nerds.’ From Politico:
Under pressure from the Elon Musk-led Department of Government Efficiency, nearly all the staff of the Defense Digital Service — the Pentagon’s fast-track tech development arm — are resigning over the coming month….
The Defense Digital Service was created in 2015 to help the Pentagon adopt fast tech fixes during national security crises and push Silicon Valley-style innovation inside the Pentagon. It built rapid response tools for the military during the Afghanistan withdrawal, databases to transfer Ukrainian military and humanitarian aid, drone detection technologies and more.
Without the program, some key efforts to streamline the DOD’s tech talent pipeline and counter adversarial drones will be sunset…
Several other digital modernization efforts within the government have met similar fates. The U.S. Digital Service, which helped the government modernize its technology and attract tech talent, has now been subsumed by DOGE, amid mass layoffs and firings. A program called 18F, a technology unit within the GSA, was eliminated by DOGE as well….
One former senior Pentagon official, who asked not to be named because of possible retaliation, described DOGE’s wider incursion into the Defense Department as damaging and unproductive
“They’re not really using AI, they’re not really driving efficiency. What they’re doing is smashing everything,” the former official said.
data lawsuits starting to bite
A federal judge in DC denied the Trump admin's effort to get a lawsuit tossed out challenging DOGE's access to systems and data at Labor, HHS and CFPB -- "and prepares itself for the twists and turns this case will surely continue to bring"buff.ly/YNbfCV2
Did he also see that Tesla stocks would plummet?
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