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Apparently they do not though.
Terr_ | 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.

FireBeyond | root | parent
The same junior flunkies who would do things like go to government agencies, create administrative accounts, which would then, often with minutes, be seen connecting from Russia and Eastern Europe with the correct credentials.
10111001 | root | parent | next
> The same junior flunkies who would do things like go to government agencies, create administrative accounts, which would then, often with minutes, be seen connecting from Russia and Eastern Europe with the correct credentials.

They are young and think they are very smart. What could go wrong?

brador | root | parent
For anyone new, the above are talking about trump and Elons DOGE gov department.
trismus | root | parent
Source?
adzm | root | parent | next
> Daniel J. Berulis, a cybersecurity architect with the NLRB, filed a whistleblower complaint alleging that within 15 minutes of DOGE team members creating new user credentials and demanding administrative access, multiple login attempts using those exact credentials originated from a Russian IP address

https://www.npr.org/2025/04/15/nx-s1-5355896/doge-nlrb-elon-...

Terr_ | root | parent
Oh come on, search-engines have gone downhill, but not that far downhill! You already know it involves "DOGE" and "Russia" and "credentials", that ought to be enough:

> Berulis alleged in the affidavit that there attempted logins to NLRB systems from an IP address in Russia in the days after DOGE accessed the systems. He told Reuters Tuesday that the attempted logins apparently included correct username and password combinations but were rejected by location-related conditional access policies.

* https://www.reuters.com/technology/cybersecurity/whistleblow...

* https://www.npr.org/2025/04/15/nx-s1-5355896/doge-nlrb-elon-...

trismus | root | parent | next
I could have this entire conversation with ai too.
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what | root | parent
> often

You have one alleged example.

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