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nucleardog | on: Residential proxies detected on White House network
Relatively benign.

A compromised device inside the White House network could presumably be doing something _much_ worse than participating in a DDOS against random websites.

mcv | parent | next
And it's right there in the second line of the article:

> One of the proxy services is a Russian company whose founder’s web hosting business was ground zero for cyberattacks against election systems in Arizona and Illinois in 2016.

Surely a Russian company known for cyberattacks against the US having direct access to the White House network is far more serious than just DDOSing random websites. This is espionage at the highest level. (Again.)

KaiserPro | root | parent
The owner of the proxy is not great, but the fact that its an open door to snoop on everything else on the entire network is the realy fucker there.
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hackernud3s | root | parent | next
Apparently they do not though.
Terr_ | root | parent
There were experts but the Republican White House fired them:

https://techcrunch.com/2025/03/11/doge-axes-cisa-red-team-st...

Perhaps some of them annoyed the President's illegally-appointed mega-donor, if they spoke out against giving root access to all his unvetted junior flunkies.

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2III7 | root | parent | next
Read "This is how they tell me the world ends".

Or let me sum it up for you. The government doesn't have the money to employ top security experts and top security experts don't actually want to work for the government.

altairprime | root | parent
Sometimes, top security experts often can’t work for the U.S. government even if they do want to due to being ineligible for security clearance from checks notes gender and sexuality mistrust, non-zero drug usage lifetime to date, formerly grayhats, have ever sought mental health care, and/or anti-authoritarian viewpoints.
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manyatoms | root | parent | next
I'd be stunned if they're paying anywhere near enough to attract top talent
dhosek | root | parent | next
I applied to USDS in 2023, the process took nearly a year and ended with them just ghosting me after two interview rounds. Pay was capped (by law) below my target salary but at a level that I would accept as it would have been fully remote, but there was also a term limit on the job which meant I would have at most two years in the position.

It’s not just the pay, there’s a lot of structural elements that mean that the potential talent pool is less than desired.

vlan0 | root | parent | next
Th best folks I know wouldn't touch a government job, no matter the pay.
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alt227 | root | parent
Dont they usually bargain work against jailtime for domestic cyber criminals?
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vlan0 | root | parent
Bruh do you remember snowden? The government is HEAVILY sub-contracted. Accenture? Really? My guy...