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DOGE uploaded live copy of Social Security database to ‘vulnerable’ cloud server, says whistleblower (techcrunch.com)

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[–] lunarul@lemmy.world 4 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

Because the journalist can't state as fact that the database is vulnerable, they're not an expert in the field. They quote someone who claims that. That's called good journalism.

[–] gaybriel_fr_br@jlai.lu 2 points 17 hours ago* (last edited 17 hours ago)

Oh? So explain why the claim about the live data being uploaded isn't in quotation marks? And instead, why the one disparaging comment about the security of cloud storage solutions is in quotation marks?

My bet? Because they don't want to piss off the owners of the storage solutions, and thus don't give a crap about the whistleblower.

Edit with another example of an article with multiple claims where only one is quoted: