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   feld (feld@friedcheese.us)'s status on Wednesday, 05-Feb-2025 06:33:00 JST feld

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   • Matthew Loxton
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   @mloxton @Chief I don't think they're very secure.
   
   Don't all federal agencies get forced into figuring out how to implement their entire IT infra from scratch? That was my understanding and it sounds like a disaster.
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     Matthew Loxton (mloxton@med-mastodon.com)'s status on Wednesday, 05-Feb-2025 06:33:01 JST Matthew Loxton

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     Ok, but besides the weird analogy about women (?!), this is not about Congress, but institutions whose staff just acquiesced to a brazen infosec intrusion that defies belief. Like how in fuck does it happen that some external bunch of youngsters can just lay their sticky hands on secure systems and servers?

     If I have a GFE PC, and accidentally plug a USB drive into it, the whole fucking thing sounds an alarm and locks up and I would get a call from IT asking just WTAF I was doing