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Comment Re:Well, Duh (Score 3, Interesting) 195

by maladroit (#65363265) Attached to: Trump To End Biden-Era High-Speed Internet Program

You keep conflating 'different due process' and 'no due process'.

Some of what's actually happening:

- The US sent hundreds of people to a concentration camp in El Salvador with no hearings, and in several cases in direct defiance of court orders.

- DHS tried to get people from some countries in Asia to agree to be deported to truly horrific conditions in Libya. When they refused, DHS threw them into solitary confinement.

- A judge had to step in and re-iterate that the Libya deportation plans would violate an existing court order and existing law prohibiting some deportations to third countries.

- The Trump administration is openly refusing to obey court orders to request the return of people deported 'in error'.

Your 'actually it's not a criminal punishment' shtick rings hollow when compared to the facts on the ground.

Comment Re:i hope the "Army" is a typo and includes ALL (Score 5, Informative) 49

by maladroit (#65346383) Attached to: Army Will Seek Right To Repair Clauses In All Its Contracts

Just the Army.

The memo is a vague wish list aimed at the Secretary of the Army; there may be similar memos planned for other branches. This is the entire right-to-repair section:

Identify and propose contract modifications for right to repair provisions where
intellectual property constraints limit the Army's ability to conduct maintenance and
access the appropriate maintenance tools, software, and technical data - while
preserving the intellectual capital of American industry. Seek to include right to
repair provisions in all existing contracts and also ensure these provisions are
included in all new contracts.

https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fmedia.defense.gov%2F2025...

Comment What's the history here? (Score 3, Interesting) 49

by maladroit (#65346351) Attached to: Army Will Seek Right To Repair Clauses In All Its Contracts

A quick bit of googling shows that some Democrats have proposed legislation and amendments for right-to-repair in the DOD:

https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.stripes.com%2Ftheate...

https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.nextgov.com%2Fdefens...

It would be interesting to know why this legislation stalled.

Comment Re:The Truth Hurts (Score 4, Informative) 193

articles are in violation of the terms required to be a non-profit
Citation needed (and not from Martin).

Churches are non-profits, yet many of them are obvious sources of propaganda.

The Heritage Foundation is allowed to be a non-profit, and they are an actual threat to democracy.

There are some restrictions on what a non-profit can do, but Wikipedia is well within them. And calling their articles propaganda is just fucking insane.

Comment Re:no such thing as free (Score 4, Informative) 277

The TurboTax app a case study in dark-pattern bullshit.
- Every few screens, they try to get you to upgrade. If you say yes, there's no way to go back, you have to start over.
- At multiple points, they ask for permission to sell your info. If you say yes, there is no way to revoke it.
- They have a long history of charging people whose returns should have qualified for free filing.

Submission + - Whistleblower reports terrible things due to DOGE (youtube.com) 9

Submitted by echo123
echo123 writes: NLRB employee Daniel Berulis reports on CNN that within 15 minutes of DOGE staff receiving new accounts with access to highly sensitive Department of Labor (DoL) data, someone within Russia logged in with the correct username and password over 20 times, but were rejected by location-related conditional access policies. Additionally a traffic spike of 10Gb of data exiting DoL was witnessed which is highly unusual activity at anytime.

Also, DOGE is using Starlink to exfiltrate data, and Starlink is known to be hacked by Russia.

He also reports this activity is not limited to the DoL, it has been witnessed across the government I.T. infrastructure, and that sensitive databases have recently been exposed to the open internet.

Daniel Berulis also received a clear message to stop looking. Part of the package he received included drone footage of him walking his dog.

Fast forward to 4min 15seconds if you're in a hurry.

= = =

Via Reuters

Berulis alleged in the affidavit that there are 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.

Berulis' affidavit said that an effort by him and his colleague to formally investigate and alert the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) was disrupted by higher-ups without explanation.

As he and his colleagues prepared to pass information they'd gathered to CISA he received a threatening note taped to the door of his home with photographs of him walking in his neighborhood taken via drone, Andrew Bakaj, Whistleblower Aid's chief legal counsel, said in his submission to Cotton and Warner.

"Unlike any other time previously, there is this fear to speak out because of reprisal," Berulis told Reuters. "We're seeing data that is traditionally safeguarded with the highest standards in the United States government being taken and the people that do try to stop it from happening, the people that are saying no, they're being removed one by one."

via NPR

The top Democrat on the House Oversight Committee is calling for an investigation into DOGE's access to the National Labor Relations Board following exclusive NPR reporting on sensitive data being removed from the agency.

Ranking Member Gerry Connolly, D-Va., sent a letter Tuesday to acting Inspector General at the Department of Labor Luiz Santos and Ruth Blevins, inspector general at the NLRB, expressing concern that DOGE "may be engaged in technological malfeasance and illegal activity."

"According to NPR and whistleblower disclosures obtained by Committee Democrats, individuals associated with DOGE have attempted to exfiltrate and alter data while also using high-level systems access to remove sensitive information—quite possibly including corporate secrets and details of union activities," Connolly wrote in a letter first shared with NPR. "I also understand that these individuals have attempted to conceal their activities, obstruct oversight, and shield themselves from accountability."

Comment DOGE is stealing data, via Russia (Score 3, Informative) 127

by maladroit (#65309721) Attached to: Cybersecurity World On Edge As CVE Program Prepares To Go Dark

Within minutes after DOGE accessed the NLRB's systems, someone with an IP address in
Russia started trying to log in, according to Berulis' disclosure. The attempts were "near real-time,"
according to the disclosure. Those attempts were blocked, but they were especially alarming.
Whoever was attempting to log in was using one of the newly created DOGE accounts â" and
the person had the correct username and password, according to Berulis.

https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.npr.org%2F2025%2F04%2F15...

Comment Re: Let's see... (Score 2) 126

Wow.

Just fucking wow.

How are you this clueless? What is your news diet like such that you don't know about this?

The camp is in El Salvador. It is called CECOT.

The El Salvadoran government has repeatedly stated that nobody ever leaves the prison. It is a death camp.

The Trump administration sent 200 people there on March 15, on three chartered flights.

Here is an intro to CECOT. You can google for more:
https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Ftime.com%2F7269604%2Fel-sa...

Let me strongly suggest that you do not try to 'well, actually' this by echoing some of the Trump admin's bullshit claims about the people sent there, because a) nobody deserves this, and b) they are lying.

Comment Re:Back in the day, the Pennsylvania Lottery (Score 1) 113

by maladroit (#65303229) Attached to: How a Secretive Gambler Called 'The Joker' Beat the Texas Lottery

Pretty sure what you read about "expected winnings" was defined as sales minus payouts over time, not per game.

Even if this group had not bought all their tickets, the Texas lottery would still have paid out (almost) the same jackpot.

They are trying to stop this because it messes with their marketing (why buy a ticket if only rich people are going to win?), not because it changed the payout percentage.

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