• leadore@lemmy.world
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    Remember when all the pundits were saying that the Musk DOGE thing was just showmanship, nothing to worry about, because “it would only be an advisory committee with no real power to do anything.”?

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    The two officials, who spoke to Reuters on condition of anonymity for fear of retaliation, said some senior career employees at OPM have had their access revoked to some of the department’s data systems.

    The systems include a vast database called Enterprise Human Resources Integration, which contains dates of birth, Social Security numbers, appraisals, home addresses, pay grades and length of service of government workers, the officials said.

    “We have no visibility into what they are doing with the computer and data systems,” one of the officials said. “That is creating great concern. There is no oversight. It creates real cybersecurity and hacking implications.”

    Implications? This sound like an ongoing hack right now

  • solsangraal@lemmy.zip
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    “It feels like a hostile takeover,” the employee said.

    how the fuck is anyone still surprised by anything these fascists are doing? spoiler alert: every fucking day is going to get worse from here on out

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    Taking the people who know first hand what fuckery you’re doing and putting them out of work, so that they have nothing to do but stew about how shitty you are and what they might do about it. What could go wrong?

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    The EPA isn’t allowed to do their jobs, but somehow ‘doge’ (whatever department became this) had this power??