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global1

(26,507 posts)
Sun Feb 9, 2025, 02:36 AM Feb 2025

Help Me Here - Musk & His Hackers Supposedly Downloaded Millions & Millions Of Files.....

in the last week or so.

There is no way that - as Tr**p has said - that they uncovered a great amount of fraud - because I don't think they have the manpower to review these files in any kind of detail - because of the massive amount of files and data they would have to review.

Am I right about this?

I would think it would take an army of personnel to do such an analysis and it would take - maybe years - to go through these files.

What do you think?

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Dan

(5,296 posts)
5. Pure IT techies
Sun Feb 9, 2025, 03:01 AM
Feb 2025

Probably can download and process data based on selection filters and can recognize patterns. We're trained for that but Probably not the skills to audit data to determine fraud. Patterns yes, auditing no.

 

Baron2024

(1,492 posts)
2. They Are Lying
Sun Feb 9, 2025, 02:42 AM
Feb 2025

They are not looking for fraud, waste, or abuse. They are intent on destroying the federal government and they are out to kill their enemy, which is anyone that believes in democracy. They are fascists.

eppur_se_muova

(42,526 posts)
3. Step 1: ASSUME Turnip is lying. Nothing makes sense otherwise. Step 2: Now worry about details. nt
Sun Feb 9, 2025, 02:55 AM
Feb 2025

TexasTowelie

(128,150 posts)
4. It might matter somewhat if they were downloading flat files or relational databases.
Sun Feb 9, 2025, 02:57 AM
Feb 2025

If it was the latter, then a lot of the relationships between various entities will already be identified such that less analysts will be necessary. From there, the analysts can proceed down the money trail to determine the extent of the fraud.

Klarkashton

(5,422 posts)
6. It's all bullshit. IF called to task trump couldn't site a single
Sun Feb 9, 2025, 03:04 AM
Feb 2025

Actual case. He bullshits like this all the time.

Hugin

(38,002 posts)
12. This "We're not committing fill-in-the-blank, you're committing fill-in-the-blank." is not only pure deflection...
Sun Feb 9, 2025, 05:55 AM
Feb 2025

It’s tiresome and pathetically juvenile. My 6 yo GD moved on to more sophistication when she was around two.

Yet, here we are.

Skittles

(172,904 posts)
13. the very idea that repukes are interested in "rooting out fraud" is ridiculous
Sun Feb 9, 2025, 06:19 AM
Feb 2025

they are the biggest con artists in America

SunSeeker

(58,374 posts)
8. If they were looking for fraud, they would have brought forensic accountants.
Sun Feb 9, 2025, 03:15 AM
Feb 2025

Not snot-nosed teenage code hackers.

 

Think. Again.

(22,456 posts)
9. It's a classic scam, they're not looking for fraud, they're looking for info to commit fraud.
Sun Feb 9, 2025, 03:54 AM
Feb 2025

muriel_volestrangler

(106,604 posts)
14. As people say, they just want info to commit fraud, or to be able to block payments to anyone resisting
Sun Feb 9, 2025, 06:28 AM
Feb 2025

If they threaten some government employees "resign or we'll sack you", and the employees retort "you can't sack us without cause" and the courts agree, then Musk would like to be able to stop their salaries anyway, without needing someone else to do it for him.

Silver Gaia

(5,436 posts)
15. It would be easy enough to feed the data to AI
Sun Feb 9, 2025, 07:01 AM
Feb 2025

then prompt it to find fraud in that data. It would absolutely find fraud, whether real and true or not. AI hallucinates. It makes shit up if it can't find what you asked for.

What could possibly go wrong with that?

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