21 years is to short for destroying that much public data.
Over several hours, the brothers deleted approximately 96 databases storing government information, including systems tied to case management and Freedom of Information Act request processing. The affected systems were hosted on servers in Ashburn, Virginia.
Damn. If they deleted NSA or CIA data they could have been heroes. Deleting FOIAs and people’s equal opportunity cases is just shitty.
This is definitely a case of hurting anyone they could rather than targeting their rage. Now members of the public have to suffer it.
Are we gonna gloss over the fact that the EEOC was storing plaintext passwords? Fucking incompetent
Yeah and whoever designed that system needs to be fired. 40 years ago you could maybe call it a reasonable mistake (although it wasn’t really acceptable even back then), but these days anyone storing plaintext passwords anywhere is bordering on criminal negligence. Unless you have a damned good reason passwords should be hashed, but at a minimum at least encrypted with something reasonably secure.
I’d like to say that nobody cared about security even 25 years ago, but in government, they have ALWAYS cared about security.
25 years ago I was still programming in php and I was salting my passwords before hashing even back then.
Salt it, hash it, put it in a stew.
I would argue that there is no such thing as a good reason to store plain text passwords.
I’m comfortable with boot having a either a plaintext key or two key halves to XOR together, used to unlock the base OS. I honestly don’t trust a TPM to store this, and as long as the OS is designed to guard the key from all but root, I don’t see any security issue.
They are not saying that you should have a good reason to store plain text, but to have a good reason not to hash, but only to encrypt.
If it was anyone hired by the current administration to be the security software engineer, I’d imagine it being someone severely under qualified with some kind of reality TV, media background who probably only mentioned “I stayed at a Holiday Inn last night…” when asked if they had any security authentication background. The interviewer probably just got a grand kick out of that response and after an intense belly laugh said, “Fuck it, you’re hired!”
Bobby tables strikes again.
Just in case: https://xkcd.com/327/Ok now charge those broccoli-permed goons of Musk’s
At least we can feel content in the knowledge that one of them was dragged from their car and had the shit beat out of him.
Just pull backups from the DOGE guys.
It takes a lot of restraint to have total access to important systems and be in a poorly ending situation with a company.
The managers who gave him that access should also be put on trial
they didn’t even delete any bullshit DBs like ones doing dragnet surveillance
Because those one are how Palantir makes money.
credit score db
Funnily enough, credit scores have literally nothing to do with the government.
86 96
Chaotic good?
