Anyone Can Push Updates to the DOGE.gov Website

Probably because it "doesn't" use SQL

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?
  
  Edit: I know markdown, I should not struggle with formatting this much lmao

This pretty much proves that the US government is experiencing its worst cybersecurity breach ever.
See also https://lemmy.world/post/25293137
- 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.
- 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.
- This is by design, weaken security and allow daddy Putin to take over
- Also a pretty brilliant feat of social engineering on Musk's part. (And I don't say that to be flattering, it just kind of is.)

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
- Literally every country should do this. Any single country with internet access and even the start of a cyber security org should be extracting what they can, getting whatever access they can.

“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.
  
  Still more than Elon himself
- Is he perfectly stable, too?
  
  Ohhhh . sssuuure. I mean, when he's not ketted out to the gills.
  So. Regularly. Maybe even often?

Our Database

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.
  
  To be fair, healthcare.gov had a rocky rollout too. No gaping security holes AFAIK though, so this is a new low.
- What is "Things people have been saying for 10 years?" Alex?
  
  10 years? More like 200 years!
- You can thank your compatriots for this horror show. Huh. There’s a double entendre there if you’re familiar with the Russian language, or if you’ve read A Clockwork Orange.
  
  There’s a double entendre there if you’re familiar with the Russian language
  As a Russian speaker, I don't understand this. Could you elaborate?
- It can't be the case that these idiots are actually in control of the united states.
- Nah they have people helping them. At any second you could stop and they would have no power. But you continually support their project
  
  Hah?

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.
  
  So you are telling me Musk has been touching techy things since about 1995 till now, and thinks there's an organization without any SQL at least someplace? I wouldn't dare suggest that about ISIS.
  Any website - OK, web is inefficient and shouldn't be used. But their operations planning just wouldn't work so well without proper business analytics infrastructure.
  
  EIQL
  Not enough 'X'
- So, tell us how you really feel.
  
  I'm here for it
- 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.
  Thanks, I needed that. Poetic.
- Username checks out
- emulating some fucking redstone calculator they wrote in Minecraft
  Let's stop right here for a bit. With redstone in Minecraft you can make the same logical constructs that in real world lead from a bipolar transistor to a machine capable of decoding your porn in real time. And people, including kids, do design those.
  Please show some respect.
  Those who make calculators in Minecraft are not the dumb kind.
  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.
  But yes, weird to expect almost college kids to have the experience needed. I can imagine some of them having the necessary education, but for a data analyst the mathematical basis is simple and the rest is experience.

You understand the assignment people.
- only if you're behind like 7 proxies
  
  And you gotta bounce it off satellites.
- I do, but say I was.... Let's call it "clueless", what would a simpleton like me do to exploit such a thing?
  
  It looks like it's been patched. I couldn't find solid instructions anyway. But if I do, I'm sure someone will post an easy to use shell script.

Please......show this to The Onion. Let The Onion post some updates.......it's their ultimate wet fantasy.
- They will fire most of their employees since they’ll get free daily content for the next 4 years.

https://archive.is/pvmpd

Someone needs to turn that site into nothing but goatse stat
- Make America Goatse Again
- Doesn't seem avoidable.

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.
  
  Sure sure, it's most likely a cover.
- 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...
  
  Look at the bright side, the Evil Empire is over! America is done. Cooked. The next few years are gonna suck a lot but the deteriorating conditions will finally push Americans into a second revolution.
- 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.
  
  will be the one who will have the chance to rebuild it
  Assuming they have any intention of rebuilding it.
  
  will be the one who will have the chance to rebuild it
  Assumingbthey have any intention of rebuilding it.
  
  At least someone is doing it.
- "Im torn on this, on one hand I know I have an untreated open wound on my leg, on the other hand here's a 6 year old kid in a "doctor is in" t shirt who wants to smear whipped cream on it as a treatment".
  What's to be torn by? False dichotomy.
- No you don’t know that. You are repeating a trope without substance. Sure there’s probably huge waste at the pentagon but that’s not on the chopping block here.

bumping for the 1337 haxorz
- 1337 |-|4XX0®Z 71//\€
  
  Is musk’s consort shitting out another kid?

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.
  
  Considering elon is also a joke, the history repeats itself
- I still think it's incredible he named his not yet an actual government department after a should-be-treated-as-a-security-by-the-SEC that he pumped and dumped

Someone needs to post jokes about the Swastika Car to President Xelon, that will piss them both off. Also remind President Felon that xelon is pwning him so hard!!!

Ah, I see. That's the efficiency they're looking for.
- Crowd source your database, what could go wrong?

Maybe it's intentional
- I can’t believe people don’t get that. They are trying to delegitimize the parts of our government that help us.
  
  Maybe it's more sinister than that.