[addandsubtract]

> Is the newly created user with name "bigballs" who downloads whole government databases a foreign TA or just DOGE? Who knows. Who cares, certainly not the Government.

Someone willing to work without morals for money can just be bought by the next highest bidder. Anything they touch should be treated as compromised.

[not2b]

If they'd only been downloading data that would be bad enough, but they've been modifying code as well, code that they don't understand. It's the biggest security disaster in recent history (perhaps Kim Philby giving everything to the Russians was worse) and entirely self-inflicted.

[taurknaut]

I don't even think half of them are getting paid. They're doing it gratis.

[CamperBob2]

Oh, they're getting paid, all right. Who's doing the paying is the question.