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DOGE Is Planning a Hackathon at the IRS. It Wants Easier Access to Taxpayer Data

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DOGE Is Planning a Hackathon at the IRS. It Wants Easier Access to Taxpayer Data

www.wired.com /story/doge-hackathon-irs-data-palantir/

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3mo ago

Doge Is Planning a Hackathon at the IRS. It Wants Easier Access to Taxpayer Data

www.wired.com /story/doge-hackathon-irs-data-palantir/

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Seems secure. Hope Bobby tables doesn't try to look up his tax return.
- bravo!
- I'm imagining some dedicated nerd knocking up a dozen women trying to get a blind SQLi.
Corcos has discussed plans for DOGE to build “one new API to rule them all,” making IRS data more easily accessible for cloud platforms, sources say.
this is gonna be great! 🤦‍♂️
edit: our tax information is now, or soon will be, in the hands of anyone with a large enough crypto wallet or some spare time.
The agency is expected to partner with a third-party vendor to manage certain aspects of the data project. Palantir, a software company cofounded by billionaire and Musk associate Peter Thiel, has been brought up consistently by DOGE representatives as a possible candidate, sources tell WIRED.
So they are planning on relying on an outside surveillance and analytics tech company whose name is taken from the Lord of the Rings orbs that are used by Sauron to spy on Middle Earth. But that's just a fluke coincidence, right?
Corcos has discussed plans for DOGE to build “one new API to rule them all”
Uh... So, yeah, that's just the single most famous line from Sauron himself, about his plan to enslave all of Middle Earth. Funny coincidence. But this is a code update - I'm sure this will be run by reasonable people, bean counters, and not insane partisan zealots.
Palantir CEO Alex Karp said in a February earnings call. “Disruption at the end of the day exposes things that aren't working. There will be ups and downs. This is a revolution, some people are going to get their heads cut off.”
So...umm...
- If you don't know much about Palantir... Well, its founder would definitely side with Sauron, too put it lightly.
- Considering Peter Thiel’s stated preference for Mordor (Sauron's realm where "the very air is a poisonous fume"), there’s no doubt that he knows exactly what he’s doing,
  ”Gandalf’s the crazy person who wants to start a war… Mordor is this technological civilization based on reason and science. Outside of Mordor, it’s all sort of mystical and environmental and nothing works.”, Peter Thiel
Never thought I'd see "Hackathon" used unironically.
- It’s a totally normal thing to say in the software world. The same crowd would never be caught dead using the word “cyber” though ;)
  
  Well, yeah, but that's mostly in the more playful hacker kind of way. This is literately just wolf in sheep's clothing.
- Is it not common in tech? My job uses it.
This is it. This is the big one.
The agency is expected to partner with a third-party vendor to manage certain aspects of the data project. Palantir, a software company cofounded by billionaire and Musk associate Peter Thiel, has been brought up consistently by DOGE representatives as a possible candidate, sources tell WIRED.
Two top DOGE operatives at the IRS, Sam Corcos and Gavin Kliger, are helping to orchestrate the hackathon, sources tell WIRED. Corcos is a health-tech CEO with ties to Musk’s SpaceX. Kliger attended UC Berkeley until 2020 and worked at the AI company Databricks before joining DOGE as a special adviser to the director at the Office of Personnel Management (OPM). Corcos is also a special adviserto Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent.
Are there any cybersecurity platforms ready to posture as a blue team defense?
Literally where do I sign up. Be happy to out these sloppy fucks.
- Both Google and Apple have significant blue-team efforts. What's not transparent is the extent to which they rely on government support to spot APTs.
  
  Google literally just bought wiz. Wiz was developed by Israel.
Holy shit I hate Americans

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