alt Hacker News> accounts created for DOGE at the NLRB downloaded three code repositories from GitHub
Why is anything of significance on github in the first place?
Edit: It's not. They just download python libraries to do "IP rotation" to circumvent rate limits.
On the actual complaint: (https://whistlebloweraid.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/2025...)
It seems that the data was stored in Azure which doesn't make it any better.
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Cthulhu_ • 04/23/2025
What do you mean? It was "just" a tool to circumvent anti-scraping measures.
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dizhn • 04/23/2025
They are not. If I read the article right, they downloaded tools to use, mostly to do with anonymous web scraping.
If you continue reading, that question is answered. The GitHub repositories don't belong to the NLRB (or to DOGE), they were generic tools that were used to exfiltrate data from the NLRB.