Also, the authors of this SubStack appear to be anonymous?
this alarming trend seems to coincide with DOGE’s unrestricted access to federal networks.
the first 2 paragraphs: Beginning on January 8, 2025, a surge of U.S. government infrastructure began appearing on what’s known as “the search engine of Internet-connected devices,” Shodan.io.
Federal agencies typically secure their systems behind multiple layers of protection, ensuring that critical services – such as mail servers, directory services, VPNs, internal IP addresses, and remote access gateways – remain isolated from public access.
Now is this conclusive proof that DOGE did it? Hardly. However, can you think of anything else that changed since 8 Jan that would override decades of policy in the matter of hours?
Surely this is the wrong question- if the change happened on 8 Jan, we'd need to look at events before 8 Jan to find what precipitated the change, no?
Unclassified government networks are mostly connected to the internet. The government is mostly bad at cyber security. These are well known facts. Whether or not "DOGE" has any actual connection to this is not really in evidence at this point, this is a highly partisan person's attempt to influence other people to their point of view.