The Atlantic has a story up today titled “The Government’s Computing Experts Say They Are Terrified.” The computing experts turn out to be four government IT professionals who all claim they are terrified by what DOGE might do.
This week, we spoke with four federal-government IT professionals—all experienced contractors and civil servants who have built, modified, or maintained the kind of technological infrastructure that Musk’s inexperienced employees at his newly created Department of Government Efficiency are attempting to access. In our conversations, each expert was unequivocal: They are terrified and struggling to articulate the scale of the crisis…
Each of our four sources, three of whom requested anonymity out of fear of reprisal, made three points very clear: These systems are immense, they are complex, and they are critical.
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