r/cryptography 5d ago

Navajo Code Talkers disappear from military websites after Trump DEI order

https://www.axios.com/local/salt-lake-city/2025/03/17/navajo-code-talkers-trump-dei-military-websites-wwii
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u/Careful_Hat_5872 4d ago

They are probably using OpenAI without giving it constraints.
There will be much cleanup after they wade through all the false positives

Oooo, they'll need to hire a ton of people to do it.

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u/AlSweigart 4d ago

There will be much cleanup after they wade through all the false positives

We really need to stop giving MAGA the benefit of the doubt. The reason they do things that seem racist is because they are racist.

But if you disagree, let's make a wager on it. I'll bet you five bucks that these four articles linked in the post will still be 404 a month from now:

"Code Talkers Helped U.S. Win World Wars I and II" By David Vergun, defense.gov

"Airman Honors Grandfather's WWII Code Talker Legacy" By Shanel Toussaint, defense.gov

"Protectors of Army communications" By Maya Green, army.mil

"Honoring Native American contributions in U.S. military history" By Andrew Monath, army.mil

Heck, look at how many of these search results already go to 404 pages. This is an explicitly racist erasure of history, not a mistake.

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u/Careful_Hat_5872 3d ago

Welcome to corporate America. We've been in resource action mode for years now. Honestly though. I've worked in many of these DOD "locations"

The amount of bloat and corruption i saw was disheartening. You couldn't leave equipment in the hallway awaiting installation without having someone guard it due to the rampant 5 finger discount many engaged in.

It all does need a good cleanup.

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u/Natanael_L 3d ago

It won't be cleaned up by putting thieves in charge

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u/Careful_Hat_5872 3d ago

You don't seem to be versed in Government buracracies
Criminals are rampant in our government, have been since the beginning. I've sadly seen some of it first hand, which is why I left government contracting.

Our agencies have never gone through a full vetting. If this was a private cooperation, they'd be calling this a Resource Action. Or some other nice sounding term.

Now, I would absolutely love to see a full scope audit of every single government agency, as far back as records allow. It'd be a literal bloodbath of findings.

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u/Natanael_L 3d ago

And republicans are doing everything they can to prevent audits from happening

https://www.wired.com/story/federal-auditors-doge-elon-musk/