[cowfriend]

The first sentence of the article:

this alarming trend seems to coincide with DOGE’s unrestricted access to federal networks.

the first 2 paragraphs: Beginning on January 8, 2025, a surge of U.S. government infrastructure began appearing on what’s known as “the search engine of Internet-connected devices,” Shodan.io.

Federal agencies typically secure their systems behind multiple layers of protection, ensuring that critical services – such as mail servers, directory services, VPNs, internal IP addresses, and remote access gateways – remain isolated from public access.

Now is this conclusive proof that DOGE did it? Hardly. However, can you think of anything else that changed since 8 Jan that would override decades of policy in the matter of hours?

[ToValueFunfetti]

>However, can you think of anything else that changed since 8 Jan that would override decades of policy in the matter of hours?

Surely this is the wrong question- if the change happened on 8 Jan, we'd need to look at events before 8 Jan to find what precipitated the change, no?

[inemesitaffia]

Wasn't the inauguration after January 8? Ruling any post inauguration related shenanigans