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

Posted by elsewhen 8 hours ago

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Comment by gnabgib 8 hours ago

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

Comment by adamzwasserman 7 hours ago

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

Comment by throw101010 6 hours ago

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.

Comment by its-kostya 6 hours ago

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

Comment by bediger4000 3 hours ago

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

Comment by GuestFAUniverse 1 hour ago

Yes.

Comment by hammock 5 hours ago

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.

Comment by SpicyLemonZest 4 hours ago

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.