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[–] frustrated_phagocytosis@fedia.io 124 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Dox my ass. Public officials being identified shouldn't be controversial. We pay them. We deserve to know who they are so we can do something when they act like Nazis.

[–] billwashere@lemmy.world 39 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Hell as a state employee you can look up my title, how long I’ve been employed, salary, etc. Should be the exact same for feds.

[–] frustrated_phagocytosis@fedia.io 18 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Same here, I just want equal treatment for them

[–] YellaLeber@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 month ago

I'm not sure what is obfuscated for officer safety or whatever but there's sites like this that have basically federal employee.

[–] chiliedogg@lemmy.world 5 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I'm a government official and people can walk in the building and demand to see my text messages and emails, and I have to hand them over (with reasonable, well-defined reactions categories like social security numbers, home addresses of certain officials and citizens, etc).

And that's a good thing.

I'm not gonna say I enjoy Open Records Requests, but that's mostly because it's a pain in the ass redacting shit, and I recently had to do a TON because a very high-profile person had interactions with the city and every journalism outlet in the country submitted slightly different requests thay required me having to do reactions on about 10,000 pages of documents despite the requests only covering about 30 emails between them.

But it's a pain I'm willing to put up with to maintain transparency.

[–] MajorasTerribleFate@lemmy.zip 3 points 1 month ago

Twice you got autocorrected from reactions to reactions, and the idea of doing reactions (as in reactions videos) on 10,000 pages of documents does sound like a pain in the ass.

[–] frog_brawler@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

There’s a lot of free and public ways to do this today. It’s just a question of property ownership. Property needs to be appraised yearly for tax consideration. If there was a website or something similar that provided the same function, man… I’d bet it’s vulnerable.

[–] Jaysyn@lemmy.world 52 points 1 month ago (1 children)

It's not doxxing, it's preparing the indictments for 2028.

[–] MangioneDontMiss@feddit.nl 14 points 1 month ago (1 children)

assuming we will have fair elections in 2028 is pretty wild.

[–] Septimaeus@infosec.pub 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I will be voting, and all my neighbors, family, and friends will too. I wonder how many ballots they can manage to lose?

[–] Impound4017@sh.itjust.works 6 points 1 month ago

I give decent odds that we’ll be past the ‘lost ballots’ stage and into ‘edited ballots’ territory tbh

[–] Xaphanos@lemmy.world 31 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Is there a link to the data?

[–] yardratianSoma@lemmy.ca 12 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (3 children)

prolly have to find some discord groups/telegram groups. My best guess is head to the darknet for links, ifykyk. If anyone is stupid enough to post links on the clearnet, they almost deserve to be targeted by LE.

(then again, imo posting on discord is stupid, but obviously effective in terms of rapid transmission)

[–] WindyRebel@lemmy.world 6 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

Um, isn’t discord and telegram technically part of the dark net? I always thought the dark net was just direct communication lines and direct links to self-hosted sites/data from individuals.

[–] sidelove@lemmy.world 12 points 1 month ago

I think it's the deepweb that is unindexed and privately-accessible communications. Mentally I reserve the darkweb for complete obfuscation of identity, e.g. Tor.

[–] yardratianSoma@lemmy.ca 11 points 1 month ago

from what I know, there's the term deepnet or deep web, that includes unindexed websites like databases and whatnot for facebook, telegram , etc. . . . And then there is the term darknet, which refers to websites that don't use ordinary protocols, like tor or i2p.

Call it pedantic, but I do think it makes sense to distinguish the two

[–] BigTurkeyLove@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

I don't know 😕 can someone enlighten me with like a hint or dm me.

[–] the_riviera_kid@lemmy.world 22 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Keep it up, don't let them have a single moment of peace, they need to feel the fear they are perpetrating on others.

[–] frog_brawler@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

They need the results to reinforce the fear.

[–] floofloof@lemmy.ca 18 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] Confused_Emus@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Do archive.is links work for anyone else? I always just get a blank browser window that looks like it's stuck perpetually loading.

[–] floofloof@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Yes, they work. You might check whether there's a browser extension or something on your network that is filtering the site, or try using a different browser.

[–] Confused_Emus@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 1 month ago

I figure it’s gotta be something on my end, I just can’t figure out what. Pi-hole doesn’t show it in blocked requests. I do use Unbound as my upstream DNS, could be there. Most likely culprit - it’s always DNS!

[–] frog_brawler@lemmy.world 11 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Damn… it’s almost like a ton of cleared developers just got laid off without cause. I wonder how this happened.

[–] Confused_Emus@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 1 month ago

Anyone got a working link for a site that doesn't want to make you pay for what should be public information?

[–] frog_brawler@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago

Wouldn’t it be fucking wild if an AI was in charge of validating clearance in 2025? I bet a ton of people would be shocked. That being said, there’d be at least several handfuls of people that knew.

[–] FauxLiving@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago