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DOGE employee stole Social Security data and put it on a thumb drive

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Source - WP (56 points, 5 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47327367

> If a post reports on something found on another site, submit the latter.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

according to the WaPo, this guy was such a L33T hacker that 'he needed help transferring data from a thumb drive “to his personal computer"'.

Ooookay

What did you expect from people going around and thinking "big balls" is a cool and impressive nickname.

The problem is that as idiotic as the people of DOGE were, the questionable motives for their actions are the only thing that's left following the monumental failure DOGE has been in terms of meeting their announced goals.

There is literally no fraud/abuse that has been discovered let alone prosecuted and they redefined "waste" to "programs I don't like" to save few hundred millions, maybe a billion... from and original target between 1 and 2 TRILLIONS (according to Musk).

I unfortunately don't think we can (nor should) apply Hanlon's razor, they will abuse the collected data one way or another.

>There is literally no fraud/abuse that has been discovered let alone prosecuted and they redefined "waste" to "programs I don't like" to save few hundred millions, maybe a billion... from and original target between 1 and 2 TRILLIONS (according to Musk).

What do you expect from an Admin engaging in concerted destruction of the Institutional framework we've been dependent on all these years? Nothing can be discovered if you don't look, and Donnie boy replaces anyone who'd be tasked with looking with a goon. Nothing to see here, moving right along.

"kids" these days don't know what a file is. Seriously, ask anyone you know that is a college professor (in the states).

Wait, is a "file' a folder or an app?

Yes.

I really don't know why you are being downvoted.

My experience is you are indeed correct. Modern phone/tablet users are so divorced from a file systems that those brought up on them have no idea what a file is or where their data is saved... The data (video, music, shopping-list) simply exists "in the app".

(And don't get me started on their concept of data portability!)

Yep our newest team member came in having never used a posix filesystem in a production environment. It genuinely blew my mind.

...I mean, we've spent the last decade building products with the explicit intention of hiding or otherwise papering over the File abstraction. The hell did anyone expect to happen as a result? People coming in or aging out lose the knowledge as part of context degradation. There was value in keeping it as a first order abstraction.

For the non-believers: https://www.theverge.com/22684730/students-file-folder-direc...

At a former company, we had an 18yo intern: One day he was given the task to clean-up an old wall closet that wasnt touched for years.

He found some 3.5" floppy disk - he went over to us saying: "why did you 3d-print the Save-Icon from Office so many times"

:-D

The iPhone generation everyone.

The submitted title is editorialized. The article headline goes “…, report says”

There is a whistleblower report that says one thing and the SSA official that says another thing.

Regardless of which you believe, the HN title is questionable.

It's beyond credulous to give the benefit of the doubt to a spokesperson who responds to questions about a whistleblower report by complaining that the reporter is “desperate for clicks and eager to publish fake news to scare seniors." They're obviously lying, trustworthy sources do not talk this way.

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