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Is there any evidence that the contents of the database are accessible? The linked article doesn't make these claims.

Is there any evidence that the database for this microblog of a cloud flare hosted website has anything of importance in it?

Are you also (alone) suggesting there's a tunnel from cloud flare (where this is hosted) to some larger government database?

You may want to RTFA: https://archive.ph/wy1Wt

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I think you are missing the entire point of this. It's not that it had sensitive data or anything of importance. It is that a .gov domain under the command of the self proclaimed Mr. Efficiency and smartest person of Earth about servers and car manufacturing was wide open for script kiddies to deface and access data from. It is a show of hypocrisy and how cutting corners like Dr. Emerald Mine Child here wants will shape the rest of this administration.

> Every other intelligence agency on the planet is about to scoop a ton of American data via cyber and basic HUMINT

I was replying to what was written. I read this as implying that sensitive (or any) data was available.

> and access data from

Again, is there any evidence that any data was accessible, beyond what is visible on the webpage? If you read the article, the flaw was that anything could be pushed. Could you link a source that says extra data was accessible? Your claim is not made in the above article, and I can't find anything mentioning data access, with a quick search.

There’s zero evidence of either of it, just because they got an A record with a .gov at the DNS doesn’t mean this tiny site had any connection back to larger data, and based on my own analysis of how hard every furry hacker on the planet is hitting this, if there was, it would be leaked to the moon already and not speculated on.

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