Security Experts Look at DOGE

I’ve attended quite a few talks by Bruce Schneier over the years and read some of his books.  He is a security professional who knows whereof he speaks.
 

https://foreignpolicy.com/2025/02/11/doge-cyberattack-united-states-treasury/

If you hit a paywall, try https://archive.ph/lSHkJ

DOGE Is Hacking America
By Bruce Schneier, a security technologist and lecturer at the Harvard Kennedy School, and Davi Ottenheimer, the vice president of trust and digital ethics at Inrupt, a data infrastructure company.

"First, unauthorized access must be revoked and proper authentication protocols restored. Next, comprehensive system monitoring and change management must be reinstated—which, given the difficulty of cleaning a compromised system, will likely require a complete system reset. Finally, thorough audits must be conducted of all system changes made during this period.
 

"This is beyond politics—this is a matter of national security. Foreign national intelligence organizations will be quick to take advantage of both the chaos and the new insecurities to steal U.S. data and install backdoors to allow for future access….

"Assuming that anyone in the government still cares."
 

Another person I’d like to hear address this is Yochai Benkler.