700k to punish researchers investigating the undoubtably detrimental impact of cannabis on gooners and pooners is theatre. Elon isn't an inventor, business genius, or policy maverick. He's an autistic baby given outsized power because of his colonial lineage.
This is a false dichotomy. $700k savings in the context of a $2t budget deficit would be 0.000035%. If you had a $100 deficit, finding one penny in your couch would be 0.01%. I don't think you need to support getting lesbians stoned to see the entire DOGE circus is a dog and pony show. This isn't serious cost cutting, this isn't systemic change. This is presenting literal nothings as heroic feats to impress financial illiterates.
@dongykung thoughts?There was a whistleblower leak, with somebody from within the government coming forwards with detailing how the activity of DOGE has led to a significant cybersecurity leak. I have the full pdf file attached to this post, but needless to say... if these findings are true... the implications are terrifying. Let me give a quick abridged description of the document.
For one, when members of DOGE were creating user accounts in NLRB (National Labor Relations Board) systems, there were multiple occasions of actors from Russia attempting to log into these accounts, using valid credentials (usernames, passwords, stuff like that). The login attempts in question were made mere minutes after the DOGE staff had created the accounts, suggesting a severe security breach, one or some of the DOGE staff being a rat/s, or Musk's whole organization collaborating with the Russian government.
On top of that, the data DOGE exfiltrates from government organizations is done so towards unknown servers. So for all we know, confidential government data might've been directly sent out to US adversaries.
Another thing of note, while the team were preparing the pdf file for whistleblowing, someone had taped a threatening note one of the team's member's house door, with photographs, taken with a drone of them walking in their neighborhood. Indicating proof that there are actors wanting to keep this data breach discreet. For what reason or who is responsible, we do not know.
To get full detailed account of the events, I recommend reading the document in full. The implications of such high level security getting breached and the data possibly maliciously being exfiltrated abroad more or less means that nobody's data is safe, as DOGE would have access to all the data gathered on civilians by state organizations, from state hospitals to secret intelligence agencies. There is absolutely nothing you can do to salvage your data if you are an American, except pray that DOGE hasn't managed to check up on everything, or hope that Elon Musk and his lackies were competent enough to be beyond this from happening. Yeah I know, very highly optimistic outcome
I say you should just prepare the rope right now. HANG THAT NIGGA NOW.
Let me guess, you think 9/11 was an inside job? Or was there a conspiracy to kill John F. Kennedy?
I mean I can buy that people are more retarded than we should give them credit for. But if you were an actual high level, nation-state sponsored hacker, you would just compromise a low level domestic/corporate US IP address and route it as the end point of your 7 proxies/boxies to login to shit. This is really trivial, baby-tier shit in terms of hiding your footsteps and leaving no/minimal evidence behind.
I don't know much and I'm pretty retarded, but here's something that I do know about.
It's very strange how the moment the logins were made Russian IPs were logging into them. Unless the system had a trojan and someone wanting to get noticed there's no way this is happening the way the leak says. The logical answer is glowies are pulling psyops. They don't want Trump to make peace with Russia and DOGE/Trump cleaning up the government makes him an enemy to them.
Putin looks the other way on Russian criminals as long as they don't target Russia. Being able to use them as a helpful resource has always been part of that. Same way drug runners, smugglers and people traffickers get ignored. It's better to have those things set up when you need them for undercover work.
Yes. THAT is the logical answer. Mah bru Elon dindu nuffin
You would have to want to be caught to do something this obvious. You don't hack into government systems without a lot of hops between you and them. And you don't immediate start logging into accounts you have compromised within minutes of them being made. If you have a back door that good you try to keep it hidden as long as possible. The average kiwi is using more security to connect to this website than the hackers were.
The last 10 years have been an elaborate Russian plot don’t cha know.
A lot of megalomaniacs are when things don't go their way, including Trump (obviously). They say Hitler, Ghaddafi, Bin Laden, and Hussein got very paranoid near the end.