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The Government’s Computing Experts Say They Are Terrified | Four IT professionals lay out just how destructive Elon Musk’s incursion into the U.S. government could be.

www.theatlantic.com The Government’s Computing Experts Say They Are Terrified

Four IT professionals lay out just how destructive Elon Musk’s incursion into the U.S. government could be.

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Its fucked now. Those systems are forever compromised. You'd have to spend hundreds of millions scrubbing and auditing to be sure, and even then you can't be. They've had unmitigated access for too long.
- Millions are probably insufficient.

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- The Government's Computing Experts Say They Is Terrified
  
  Four IS professionals lay out....

Congress could shut this down, but not for much longer.
- Politely, I think this comment is unhelpful. What do you propose that they do? Our government is based to a large degree on the assumption of good faith. The Supreme Court, for example, has power because the constitution says it does. They don’t have the capacity to actually enforce the rulings they hand down.
  The current president has basically said that he doesn’t care about the constitution, and is just concerned with stealing power for himself and his cronies. Elections are supposed to be our mechanism for dealing with that.
  
  What do you propose that they do?
  Impeach and remove Trump. Yes, a Vance administration might do the same things but Congress would make it clear they're not willing to allow such bullshit.
  Or subpoena Musk and others, which I know recently failed a vote to do exactly that.
  Congress CAN do a lot of things, they were designed to be a powerful pillar of government. They have ceded much of that power through inaction over the years but they can take it back.
  
  What's the point of rules if the president can just ignore them? Were they just counting on the president not being the sort of person who would break the rules? That seems like a bad plan.
  
  There are a lot of things they can do, but also if they are breaking the law and blatantly ignoring the constitution I would argue basically anything is on the table to stop this, even if it is "extra legal" or whatever.
  Because if they don't the entire system of laws and rules and everything is fucked beyond repair.
  
  At the least they could obstruct, using any means at their disposal, be them legally dubious or not. The repugs would do the same.

Yet all americans are just rolling over
- That's the point of the big lie and 'never let them cool down'' fascist tactics.
- I'm ready to follow your lead!
- You'd think there's enough global support that something might kick off elsewhere in the world. But those not having to deal directly with the nonsense going on in the US have the benefit of being able to sit back and spout off.
  Sorry we're not revolting fast enough. Kind of hard to do when things are generally equally split in the country, and the majority of folks need to keep going to work to keep food on the table.
  Probably all as designed, but we're all too damned tired and those doing things we don't like know it.
  
  I was just expecting more from the country that spouts off all the time about their guns and "try and take my freedoms away"
  Where are all the 2a folks now?
  
  For real. People don't understand how powerful targeted propaganda is. A lot of the most radical and armed in the US were intentionally targeted so now all of their media, friends, friends media are all saying the same thing and telling them everything else is a lie.
  This story for example is, on the right, just the Democrats and deep state trying to Elon now that he is exposing REAL corruption.
  We are arguing different facts, arguably because so much of media is just "trusted sources" instead of anything verifiable anymore
- They thought they were free.

The solution is simple. Copy all the information and paste it into word pad. Then spend a billion dollars entering the data into a secure system.

Here’s a spooky computer gif to really drive the point home
- tbf, those systems are now effectively haunted

Normally I think someone should take down that orange fuck. But this degenerate would probably be more useful target.

Us gun people*
Government taken over by foreign billionaire - I sleep
Children frolicking about at school - raaaaaaage
- On the bright side, it tells you everything you need to know about these people.

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