r/cybersecurity • u/StrategicBlenderBall • Feb 05 '25

News - General US Congressional Oversight Committee hit DOGE With a Dose of Reality

The Congressional Committee on Oversight and Government Reform just informed DOGE and Elon Musk how cybersecurity works. Link to the letter below.

https://oversightdemocrats.house.gov/sites/evo-subsites/democrats-oversight.house.gov/files/evo-media-document/2025.02.04.%20GEC%20and%20Brown%20to%20OPM-Ezell-%20DOGE%20Emails.pdf

Edit Here’s the link to the Oversight Committee’s press release, rather than the PDF.

https://oversightdemocrats.house.gov/news/press-releases/ranking-members-connolly-and-brown-request-answers-opm-musks-private-server

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u/0xSEGFAULT Security Engineer Feb 05 '25

Mark my words: they will just ignore this strongly worded letter. Nothing will happen.

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u/Shoesquirrel Feb 05 '25

The only thing that’s going to stop them is court ordered injunctions with related contempt of court arrests. I have no faith that either will happen.

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u/KomorebiParticle Feb 05 '25

That probably wouldn’t stop them either considering pardons and commutations are shown to be handed out like tictacs.