They fired the people who might've prevented that.

https://techcrunch.com/2025/03/11/doge-axes-cisa-red-team-st...

> Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) has fired more than a hundred employees working for the U.S. government’s cybersecurity agency CISA, including “red team” staffers, two people affected by the layoffs told TechCrunch.

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parineum 4 hours ago | parent [-]

Not posting secrets to public GitHub repos doesn't need red teaming.

	▲	wil421 2 hours ago \| parent \| next [-]
		At my job the commits wouldn’t have even made it to our private GitHub repo. The scanners would’ve rejected it when you tried to push a commit. They find keys and tokens all the time.
	▲	jnovek 3 hours ago \| parent \| prev \| next [-]
		Storing a bunch of passwords in a plain-text list that an individual can access violates zero-trust AND least-privilege which I think a red team might have some opinions on.
	▲	ceejayoz 4 hours ago \| parent \| prev \| next [-]
		A red team might well notice that the build process doesn't check for accidentally committed secrets.
	▲	gumby271 4 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		And yet, here we are.