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  • perestroika@lemm.ee
    62·
    6 days ago

    It is interesting that Reddit took it upon themselves to remove it. They are government employees, those aren’t their private addresses, but end with “.gov”. This seems to be public data.

    • pyre@lemmy.world
      29·
      6 days ago

      but it’s fascism time; bootlickers gonna bootlick. gotta protect the fascists from judgment by the people. expect less and less transparency moving forward, all sorts of public information getting concealed, and both mainstream media and social media corporations helping them.

      • Jove@lemmy.world
        12·
        4 days ago

        Extreme responses like this push people with genuine questions away.

        This makes it impossible to learn.

    • ugh@lemmy.world
      4·
      5 days ago

      The addresses were originally obtained through a Freedom of Information request, so yes, 100% public information.

  • nutsack@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    39·
    6 days ago

    is this seriously it? 26 people are supposed to know enough about the inner workings of all these departments to be able to fire staff?

    there is not even an attempt to appear competent

  • Zero22xx@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
    452·
    6 days ago

    [Removed by Reddit]

    Been a minute since I’ve seen that. And that’s actually one huge advantage of the Fediverse. There can’t be a [Removed by Lemmy] because ‘Lemmy’ is a federation of servers with their own rules and regulations and aren’t even all based in the USA. And if any server starts these shenanigans, you can just move to another.

    Although I do wish that profiles and comment history could be preserved from one server to another. That’s basically the last piece of the puzzle that would give the user a completely a completely free experience.

        • whats_all_this_then@programming.dev
          81·
          6 days ago

          I’m as anti crypto rugpull nft bullshit web 3.0 is gonna be uuuuge bro i swear bro where are you going bro as much as the next person buuuuut…cryptocurrency is a godsend in shithole countries such as mine where the local currency is a joke and and possession of any non local currency is illegal

      • frosty122@lemm.eeEnglish
        7·
        6 days ago

        Nah, There’s other ways to store data while preserving confidentiality, integrity and availability that isn’t on the blockchain. Besides A public ledger connected to a specific profile could make it easier for the profile to be doxxed/fingerprinted.

        Spitballing here but a service using simple key-pairs might be a better way to do this.

        • Users generate a key pair client-side.

        • Public key is stored on the server, acting as the user’s identity.

        • To update their profile, users sign the request with their private key. (Data is signed/verified client side before submission)

        • The server verifies the signature using the stored public key before edits can be made.

        Because data signature/verification are done client side theoretically you don’t need a ledger, your client can enforce profile state. (Maybe an HMAC is sent with the verified data and there reverted periodically by the client)

      • homura1650@lemm.ee
        4·
        6 days ago

        Just public key cryptography. All your actual posts and comment history are already shared. What is missing is a way to authenticate yourself to anyone but your home server. If the protocol included every profile having a public key, you could then use that to authenticate to any server. And managing that private key is no more complicated than managing your private key in a block chain context.

        Non public info like subscriptions is a bit more complicated, because there is an actual policy question of who you share it with. You would either need to make it publicly available, keep a copy yourself, or have your home instance give it to you/the other server at the time you want to migrate.

    • artificialfish@programming.devEnglish
      3·
      6 days ago

      Lemmy added export data import data features I think. That’s plenty.

      I’m not even sure on anonymous Internet forums what I would want to move.

      • Zero22xx@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
        2·
        5 days ago

        Yeah it’s nice to be able to import your list of subscriptions at least. But for comment history, I guess it depends what you’re getting out of a place like this. On Reddit, I liked going back sometimes and seeing what I was posting a couple of years ago. Especially if it’s personal shit, or even old review posts for movies or whatever. I like having a stable online presence or identity with a history to refer to.

        • artificialfish@programming.devEnglish
          3·
          5 days ago

          Huh, I’m the opposite. I wipe all my info every year just to prevent being tracked. If I want to remember something I save it to my note taking app.

    • SufferingSteve@feddit.nuEnglish
      2·
      6 days ago

      Just allow people to bring their own IDs to servers. Self sovereign IDs, or SSI for short.

      Blockchain has a usecase here, and it would be for disabling your ID in case of privkey leak, or for having people or entities strengthen or verify your pubkey or tie a hash of your birth certificate to it.

      Blockchains are great for providing reliable immutable and verifiable timestamps of data. The reason they are safe is because a lot of people have tied actual value to it, and thus most don’t want to invalidate the blockchain and destroy their value.

    • My_IFAKs___gone@lemmy.world
      61·
      7 days ago

      Genuinely curious how knowing personal emails would be useful as opposed to the work emails. I’m not even sure how knowing the work emails is useful, but I’m always eager to be educated.

      • tweeks@feddit.nl
        6·
        6 days ago

        Well, not that I approve of the practice, but you could find site logins that the email is used in, breaches that it’s been in (potentially finding (old) passwords).

        With that info, if not for identity theft directly, can be used for fishing and profiling.

        • My_IFAKs___gone@lemmy.world
          4·
          6 days ago

          Ah, gotcha. I picked up a reddit permaban for mentioning in a comment that someone else in another sub had found the initial 4 DOGE kiddos’ phone numbers and parents’ addresses by viewing their public social media profiles and GitHubs. Played with the idea of sending each of them No Thank You cards in the mail, but the permaban made me hesitant to dish out more mischief.

  • Jove@lemmy.world
    2·
    4 days ago

    Does this not break the lemmy world TOS, classifying as doxxing and/or attacking a group of people?

    https://legal.lemmy.world/tos/

    I’m a new user and, like an adolescent being new to life, I need to calibrate my psyche by seeking out the limits of the space I’m operating in. Thanks.

    • Yerbouti@sh.itjust.worksOP
      8·
      4 days ago

      These people are public officials, paid by the US government, having a public email addresses is the most common thing in every democratic country.

      I don’t know where you see an attack on a group of people here, but if you paid any attention lately, they are the ones attacking the population.

      Welcome to the adolescent life. The world we are in right now as nothing to do with the world of the past 50+ years. Fascism is back, officials are making nazi salute, USA is threatening to annex Canada, supporting dictators, and attacking the very existence of minorities. I’m sorry to tell you, but you will have to pick a side, quickly, because some really bad things are coming up. Learn to intellectually protect yourself, Find RELIABLE source of information, educated yourself, don’t fell for demagogy. That would be my best advice, good luck.

  • Clbull@lemmy.world
    15·
    6 days ago

    [Removed by Reddit]

    Of course Steve Cuckman would be the first to try and cover this up.

  • WorldsDumbestMan@lemmy.today
    151·
    6 days ago

    Ok, so if the entire world turns into a dictatorship, with no free countries. Seriously, who will even want to live in it? How long until the population just de-pops itself?

    • orize@lemmy.dbzer0.com
      20·
      6 days ago

      We’re already there?

      I am 31 years old. A lot of my friends aren’t chasing partners, yet those who do don’t really want to make babies due to the long array of problems affecting quality of life.

      • varyingExpertise@feddit.orgEnglish
        21·
        6 days ago

        Historically, people have made babies under much more dire circumstances and some of them made it through so we’re here today. I don’t feel like having kids either, I know, but I think this sentiment comes from a luxurious position.

          • varyingExpertise@feddit.orgEnglish
            4·
            6 days ago

            My mother was born in a basement during the bombardments of Dresden while the house above them was burning. Her mother had barely made it out of the second floor with burning phosphorus running down the walls. At this point, my grandparents had been on the road for quite a while, narrowly escaping the Russian front, starting with leaving behind every single thing they owned at their farm estate in Silesia. They had nothing but their clothes on their back and they already experienced, that nobody wanted anything to do with the refugees from the east.

            My inconveniences are mild, compared to that. They are significant for me, but historically, we’re still at an all time high compared to our ancestors, unless you have old money in your bloodline.

        • klu9@lemmy.caEnglish
          4·
          6 days ago

          Historically, people didn’t have easy access to multiple forms of birth control.

          But then they’ve already started working on that: Dobbs, period policing, “NO CONDOMS FOR GAZA!!!”

    • Bigfoot@lemm.ee
      4·
      6 days ago

      What people want will have little to do with it, unfortunately. The “hope” is that contraception bans combined with misleading/nonexistent sex ed will maintain a population.

      • Korhaka@sopuli.xyzEnglish
        1·
        6 days ago

        After they destroyed any sense of community? Pushing individualism might be what has led to this

    • SushiRain@lemmy.world
      22·
      6 days ago

      Aside from the economy, the EU is pretty ok tbh…so “the whole world” is a bit of a stretch.

    • thespcicifcocean@lemmy.world
      191·
      7 days ago

      Could be anything from on entry point on a phishing campaign to simply flooding their inbox with useless shit

      Edit

      Also, they likely use exchange, so if you were to spoof their email@ domain.onmicrosoft.com address, you could really trick people into thinking it was an official email from any of those addresses

      • I_Has_A_Hat@lemmy.world
        2·
        6 days ago

        These are all on the same domain. I guarantee you they have extensive spam filters in place. “Flooding their inbox” will do nothing as the messages won’t even go to their inbox.

        • thespcicifcocean@lemmy.world
          3·
          6 days ago

          You gotta spoof the from email address. If you find an open mail relay, it’s as easy as using the send-mail command in PowerShell. I never actually did that particular kind of operation in Linux, but I would be surprised if there isn’t a cli that would do that.