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How do you even accidentally publish a list like this onto your website? As a web developer I’ve never accidentally copied some random documents to a directory that’s later built into a Docker image. Is this like some FTP server or some other obsolete, Windows-style bullshit? I get really big “open SMB port” vibes from this.
You don’t accidentally publish the list.
At very large organizations, sharing files easily is a pain in the ass. The available tools are usually tied to your Active Directory, which means you have to know who you’re sharing with, or at least have some idea of what permission groups allow what access.
To share documents appropriately, you still have to do the hard work of finding out who and what permission groups you should be sharing with, even if that means coordinating with other IT teams to make sure you understand their permissions structures properly.
Or you half-ass it, and put the document somewhere public and hope the link doesn’t get shared beyond your control (or found).
I guess I’m saying it’s not intimidation, accident, or resistance — just laziness and stupidity. Both of which are not unfamiliar ground for this administration.
Even easier with SharePoint. A part of my job is making sure that users doesn't accidentally share literally everything with everyone.
Yeeeaahh… At my org our default security policy for all of our site collections prevents sharing outside of our domain, and requires managed devices to access our SharePoint.
To share things outside of our org via SharePoint, a site collection with a different security policy has to be created, and only admins can control the sharing. We can only share with people who have some sort of identity service that can federate with ours.
No user is granted above contribute access, and sharing is turned off. (People can share links, but they cannot change the permissions of an item to share it.).
Theoretically it’s possible that a SharePoint can be created that allows public access, but to my knowledge we do not do that.
OneDrive files cannot even be downloaded by external parties (although they can be viewed in the browser!), and Teams workspaces are also not accessible externally unless by special circumstance.
I would imagine the federal government is… well, hopefully at least as locked down as my work.
OneDrive files not being able to be downloaded by external parties would really annoy me if it was like that at work, because that's what I have to use to share files if our or their email system likes to think that the files I rightfully need to send to clients are "inappropriate".
Seems like some systems block any files that are not a standard PDF file or similar.
It can be pretty annoying. We wind up creating extranet sites or using other services. (We have some ftp-like file services that work for us.)