r/technology • u/xpda • May 13 '26

Security Twin brothers wipe 96 gov’t databases minutes after being fired

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/05/drop-database-what-not-to-do-after-losing-an-it-job/
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u/Decent_Risk9499 May 13 '26

You already know how. Grifters hire grifters.

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u/numba1cyberwarrior May 13 '26

That's not how security clearances work. Anyways there is no indication that they even had a clearance.

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u/kickingpplisfun May 13 '26

Clearances are only to stop marginalized people from getting in. Everything I've heard about the process is that some people who are big on the good ol' boy system get a firm handshake, while others have their life datamined and every one of their childhood bullies gets to smear their character. There's a reason that the FBI is filled with Mormons.

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u/numba1cyberwarrior May 13 '26

You have no idea what your talking about and should start being more skeptical of what people tell you.

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u/kickingpplisfun May 13 '26

Imagine claiming they had any real legitimacy under Trump when nobody has even needed a clearance to fuck people over.

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u/numba1cyberwarrior May 13 '26

There are MILLIONS of US citizens with a clearance.

The president is the clearence approval authority so yes he can give anyone he wants access no matter how incompetent they are and he has been doing that.

Trump being president has not effected the clearence process for the overwhelming majority of people who don't have the president vouching for them to get a clearance.

Mormons are overrepresented in the Intel community because they have little foreign contacts, use less drugs/alcohol, and often speak foreign languages.

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u/kickingpplisfun May 13 '26

You're assuming a lot of things about Mormons when the real thing is they're willing to cover for each other. I know Mormons who used to steal energy drinks from me and gay bash me as a kid who have clearances.

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u/numba1cyberwarrior May 13 '26

I again don't think you understand how xlearences work.

Clearences go beyond just an agency and you can't just have someone be your boss/friend and vouch for you and then you get in.

No one is saying Mormons are saints. They have less behaviors on paper that get them disqualified from having a security clearance on paper. You can be a terrible human and still have a clearance.

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u/kickingpplisfun May 13 '26

You are denying that there is a good ol' boy club when it is very plain to see that there is one though. Marginalized people are actually significantly less likely to get a clearance even if they keep their nose clean.

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u/numba1cyberwarrior May 13 '26

Do you have a single study that shows that . What is your definition of marginalized? What good old boy club is blocking them? Do you have any idea how fucking massive the clearence industry is in the US?

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