Elon Musk’s DOGE subordinates received approval to use software at the Labor Department that could be used to transfer large amounts of data, two employees said.

Summary

Elon Musk’s DOGE received approval to use PuTTY, a file-transfer software, at the Labor Department, raising alarm among employees over data security.

DOGE has sought access to various federal databases, prompting lawsuits from labor unions and privacy advocates.

A federal judge issued a restraining order against DOGE’s access to Treasury data, though not Labor’s. Critics fear AI analysis and unauthorized data sharing.

The case is now before U.S. District Judge John Bates, who expressed concerns but denied an immediate injunction.

  • Bender12@lemmy.world
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    1 month ago

    What am I even reading? An ignorant clickbait article about an extremely popular and widely used ssh client? It’s not like they couldn’t just do scp or sftp via any tool set, even built into modern OS’s.

    • jonne@infosec.pub
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      1 month ago

      I guess the takeaway from this is that these supposed super clever hackers are using Windows. Instead of any of the operating systems that come with an SSH client built in.

      • xmunk@sh.itjust.works
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        1 month ago

        Windows actually does have a decentish ssh program built in these days… it’s not great but like… it works. And while I used to use PuTTY myself, I’ve just switched over to using git bash - so it amuses me that they’re using ancient tooling even though the oldest is like 25?

        As a thirty eight year old I feel confident in saying that these clowns need to get with the times.

        Also, don’t forget that Musk is a huge fucking idiot. He recently claimed the US government doesn’t use SQL which is laughably ignorant.