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Researcher Captures Contents of ‘DEI.gov’ Before It Was Hidden Behind a Password (Sign-up based soft paywall) (www.404media.co)

submitted 4 days ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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A German researcher captured the contents of the White House’s “DEI.gov” during a brief period when it was not password protected.

The capture shows that the site contains a list of vague, alleged government-funded tasks and their costs, without sources or context, like “$1.3 million to Arab and Jewish photographers," “$1.5 million for ‘art for inclusion of people with disabilities,’” and "$3.4 million for Malaysian drug-fueled gay sex app.”

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 4 days ago (2 children)

Absolutely unhinged. You can tell from the writing alone that this was one of Musk's college-age flunkies. This is tinpot dictator stuff.

And man, as an IT security person with FedRAMP experience, seeing a ".gov" site running a wordpress server with a bunch of default plugins enabled, with a Let'sEncrypt cert, with no advisory banners or anything, is infuriating all on its own.

[–] burt 4 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Bright side, maybe fedramp goes away...

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 days ago

haha, that would honestly be hilarious for a whole slew of personal reasons.

Honestly, FedRAMP's not a bad idea, it's just badly implemented. The JAB route is basically pie-in-the-sky unobtainable without a congressperson pulling strings for you or previous multi-agency contracts, and lots of agency sponsorships are basically just doing the pre-FR dance anyways.