We're getting accustomed to saying "this is wild" but, still, this is pretty wild. It's all speculative what's going on with the data while the staff is locked out, but few directions are really implausible. If access control and activity logging can get turned off, wouldn't all records be subject to updating or deleting? Or data sets simply copied off for later analysis as an enemies list?
I'd expect the civil service to be completely tainted following this admin. Any change of party will require the incoming admin to have a massive onboarding process to undo this one.
Why does there seem to be so little interest/concern about this on Hacker News? I get that political discussions are generally discouraged here but these developments seem very big and I don't know which other groups of people can fully understand the implications of these actions.
I'm sure this will be flagged soon enough, but people need to know that there is an unprecedented, hostile, and (seemingly) illegal blitzkrieg happening against the federal civil service. Doors are being barricaded. Strange servers are being installed by unknown individuals. People with decades of institutional experience are getting pushed out the door.
It's bad. A well-funded anti-tax movement has been radicalizing a lot of the country against their own government. They love to see this dissolution of consitutional government.
While they claim smaller government is better for the economy, they really care most about ending consitutional government and couldn't care less about the impact to the economy.
Who are the people doing this? What are their clearances? Who authorized them to do any of this?
A random group of nobodies given power by an oligarch with no real delegated power of their own shouldn't be able to interfere with career officials. They should be arrested and thrown in jail.
So, in terms of how bad this is... should we expect a data dump of every US federal employees to show up somewhere in the darknet or Russian intelligence headquarters? Or is that still a week or two away from now?
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[ 3.4 ms ] story [ 40.1 ms ] threadI'd expect the civil service to be completely tainted following this admin. Any change of party will require the incoming admin to have a massive onboarding process to undo this one.
First-hand accounts can be found here: https://old.reddit.com/r/fednews/
While they claim smaller government is better for the economy, they really care most about ending consitutional government and couldn't care less about the impact to the economy.
Elon Musk Lackeys Have Taken over the Office of Personnel Management
https://www.wired.com/story/elon-musk-lackeys-office-personn... (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42861763)
A random group of nobodies given power by an oligarch with no real delegated power of their own shouldn't be able to interfere with career officials. They should be arrested and thrown in jail.