• Buelldozer
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    -201 day ago

    Elon / DOGE accessing the data is an obvious outcome of the US Federal Government having far more data on its citizens than it was ever supposed to.

    The real problem here isn’t that Elon is digging his grubby mitts in it it’s the untold numbers of other people who’ve been quietly doing the same thing since the computer age began.

    Be angry but let’s solve the actual problem here and that problem isn’t Elon / DOGE.

    • @[email protected]
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      51 day ago

      The only possible silver lining to all this is that perhaps “normal” people will finally start to care about the problems techies have been screaming about for 20+ years now.

      It was inevitable that a bad actor would gain access eventually, because there is no such a thing as an organization that you can trust in perpetuity. That obviously doesn’t excuse the actual bad actors that now have access.

      • @[email protected]
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        41 day ago

        Well my mom already said, “I haven’t done anything wrong so I have nothing to hide”

        Which…yeah…don’t get me started.