This pretty much proves that the US government is experiencing its worst cybersecurity breach ever.
See also https://lemmy.world/post/25293137
this post was submitted on 14 Feb 2025
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Musk is proof of that, in and of himself. And it’s not just cyber, it’s national security. We are in grave danger.
This has also been the narrative on recent techdirt.com posts, e.g. https://www.techdirt.com/2025/02/13/at-last-doge-and-musk-are-finally-named-in-a-lawsuit-albeit-officially/ - I (not being American) do not know or care enough about the topic to have an opinion about it.
This is by design, weaken security and allow daddy Putin to take over
Is it really a breach if they'll just hand it over to anyone who pays and/or stroke's Mango Mussolini's ego?
The United States has been glory holed by anyone who paid admission.
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Firing the IT people because they cost too much is always a good thing to show you the incompetence.
"Why do we have all these IT people? All the tech works fine!"
* Something breaks *
Why do we have all these IT people? Nothing works!
Bosses when the IT dept is furiously responding to an outage: What do we pay you for?
Bosses when everything is running smoothly: What do we pay you for?
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This is so embarassing. It can't be the case that these idiots are actually in control of the united states.
It all seems to be rushed and it's all an attack on political opposition. Doing it well isn't important. Like a monkey throwing shit at another monkey, they don't care that they have some shit on their hands, they threw shit at another monkey and that's what counts. Unfortunately the shit throwing monkeys are the president of the USA and the wealthiest person in the world.
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“Basically, doge.gov has its codebase, probably through GitHub or something,” the other developer who noticed the insecurity said. “They’re deploying the website on Cloudflare Pages from their codebase, and doge.gov is a custom domain that their pages.dev URL is set to. So rather than having a physical server or even something like Amazon Web Services, they’re deploying using Cloudflare Pages which supports custom domains.”
Elmo's a genius you know
I understand several of those words.
Most websites run off of a server. They're just using a "repeater" (CloudFlare Pages) to serve directly off of their Github or whatever which is sort of top-shelf slapdashery.
Not serious. Not competent.
What's sloppy about it? Plenty of blogs and other static sites work that way. In fact, that's largely how we do deployments at my company, we merge to a special branch and it triggers a deployment.
The database being open is completely sloppy, but deploying through a source control platform is fine.
Well, it's sloppy for a government website. This is not a private enterprise running out of someone's garage. There's many reasons why that should not be an acceptable paradigm for posting government information.
If you're running a sandwich shop or a metal working shop, posting your phone number and address through CloudFlare Pages is probably fine.
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Fucking CyberTruck like fucking pile of shit website. What kills me the most is that the fucking things they're screenshoting, those pages have literal "export to XML" buttons that they could fucking export, save the XML to some shared drive that gets swept, and the put it in some actually secure database.
This whole fucking thing reeks of some fucking weeb ass Roblox hackers whose last project consisted of Lua Script emulating some fucking redstone calculator they wrote in Minecraft. And the export fuction on the thing? It's just one dimension SUM function CSV exports. Literally no other dimenstions of values to add, shit I would be fucking surprised if a single one of the people writing the goddamn have ever heard of OLAP.
And to top it off, we already have a fucking website that does what this fucking place does, but 846 decillion times better. And it doesn't have a fucking Instagram esque reel of Tweets of people taking fucking screenshots of an open database.
I can't wait till the next dumbass gets into the White House and turns this pile of grabage off. Paying these idiots millions to power and run the hardware this pitiful excuse of a website runs on. And all we got for that money is some shit that is about on par as the shit you get from some O'Reilly book called "Building a Government Website Crash Course" with a Bald Eagle dying of bird flu on the cover.
This fucking idiot maybe wants to fucking learn what the hell SQL is.
But the government does not use SQL per ELMO.
I am waiting for this idiot to come up with something like EIQL (Elmo's idiotic query language).
Musk is wrong about literally everything. Must be nice to have enough money to make up for being a fucking moron.
I don't know if there's enough money in the world to make up for that horse's ass. All his purchased government position does, beyond destroying the US government, is broadcast how he's a feckless moron to anyone who isn't just as stupid.
Unfortunately, Musk isn't alone: many US citizens are that stupid.
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You understand the assignment people.
- only if you're behind like 7 proxies
I do, but say I was.... Let's call it "clueless", what would a simpleton like me do to exploit such a thing?
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Probably because it "doesn't" use SQL
Our Database
Please......show this to The Onion. Let The Onion post some updates.......it's their ultimate wet fantasy.
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Remember that if you can see something that obvious, imagine all the quiet changes people are making that aren't being immediately found. Not only the deliberate horseshit from musk and his facsy tots, but other attempts to distort data from traditional bad actors like China and Russia
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What did you expect from a department named after a memecoin anyways
The meme came first. Then the coin. Then Elon. It used to be innocent.
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I'm torn on this, on one hand I know there must be millions of dollars in contracts for pointless reports and a huge amount of government wasteful spending in general.
On the other hand, musk and trump are absolute morons. And they will cut shit just because they don't know what the words mean.
They're not cutting actual waste. Their goal is to cripple the parts of the government that stopped them from doing illegal shit.
Not to mention their unwitting goal of destroying the United States. They’re useful idiots.
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If you are "torn" on whether it is a good thing to grant a wealthy campaign donor unfettered and unquestionably illegal access to government and bureaucratic infrastructure, with zero accountability or oversight, and who has displayed absolutely zero competence at managing any public institution (and in fact has a record of incompetence at managing private enterprises), then I honestly think you're one of the millions of Americans who just needs to fuck off and stop contributing to adult decision-making. You're simply not up to the task.
Waste is how you frame it.
Even literal poop has a benefit.
I do client work, sometimes it drives me mad how much time I "waste" making PPT slides that are just prettier BI dashboards, but then the client sees it, sends that one slide to his boss and everyone claps me on the back.
The wasteful spending is in defense and ain't nobody looking into that...
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Whoever dismantles the pre-existing structure will be the one who will have the chance to rebuild it. This is the entire reason they are doing it. Great if you share their vision. Not so much if you don't.
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