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Comment They also don't guarantee your data. (Score 1) 24

Generally if one of those companies lose your data, even with you paying for a subscription, the most they're on the hook for is one month's fees according to the EULAs..

I've had a couple VPS companies totally lose my virtual machines and unable to recover them from backups, and didn't even offer a free month. Everyone needs to look out for themselves.

Comment Punishing the wrong people (Score 1) 125

Instead of looking at the refuse stream and scolding people who might have recyclables in there, we REALLY need to scold the people who "whishcycle" by putting non-recyclables in the recycling stream, contaminating those batches to the point they just get sent to the trash anyway because separating them would not be economical or practical.

Comment Work is more important now than ever. (Score 0) 2

This work is more important than ever. A lot US public records are in the process of or will be destroyed by the current administration, so an independent archive of the data is invaluable..The only thing I would suggest is that they have a couple of non-US mirrors.

This is also why newspapers publishing public notices, birth, death, and other records independent of government is important..

Submission + - Elon Musk's doge.gov website hacked (fortune.com) 1

ArchieBunker writes: Hackers wasted no time in infiltrating the Department of Government Efficiency’s website.

After a hasty launch this week, at least two pages of the site have been defaced by critics who seemingly have accessed a database the page draws from. Two messages appeared on two separate pages of the site, reading “this is a joke of a .gov site” and “THESE ‘EXPERTS’ LEFT THEIR DATABASE OPEN -roro.”

The hacked pages, though still accessible as of 10:00 a.m. ET on Friday morning, no longer appear to people who navigate to the DOGE website in traditional methods.

404 Media, which first discovered the hacked pages, quoted anonymous experts who said the DOGE page does not appear to be hosted on government servers and was pulling data from a database that can be accessed by third parties. That opened the doors for the embarrassing criticism.

Submission + - DOGE Approved to Transfer Labor Dept Data Using PuTTY (nbcnews.com)

fahrbot-bot writes: NBC is reporting that Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency has received approval from the Labor Department to use software that could allow it to transfer vast amounts of data out of Labor’s systems, according to records seen by NBC News and interviews with two employees.

The approval for Musk’s team to use the remote-access and file-transfer software, known as PuTTY, has alarmed some of the Labor Department’s career employees. Musk, the head of DOGE, has dispatched subordinates throughout the government to radically overhaul or dismantle federal agencies with the backing of President Donald Trump.

Many of the details around DOGE’s actions have remained secret, though it has moved to gain access to large swaths of data held in the computer systems of individual agencies.

Concerns include the alleged use of artificial intelligence to analyze federal data and the alleged use of a computer server not familiar to government employees.

Transferring government data outside established protocols could have high stakes for anyone whose information is in those databases, because of the chance that more people would have access to their information than originally intended, increasing chances of a breach.

Two employees interviewed said that they considered the authorization to be a red flag because the DOGE members were new arrivals who, in their view, lacked sufficient vetting and experience for the access they were getting.

“We don’t know who they are, and we’re giving them free rein to extract whatever they want,” one employee said. “This is completely opposite of what we’d do to protect privacy.”

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