Summary

Elon Musk allegedly installed an unauthorized server at the Office of Personnel Management (OPM), gaining access to sensitive federal employee data, including Social Security numbers, home addresses, and medical histories.

Young, inexperienced staffers are reportedly using this access to target positions for removal, particularly DEI offices.

Security concerns have been raised, with fears of hacking and HIPAA violations.

Senior officials have been locked out of key systems, limiting oversight of DOGE’s actions, which could significantly impact the federal workforce.

  • WrenFeathers@lemmy.world
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    1 day ago

    Soooooo… that’s a direct threat to national security. And as I understand, trump is quoted as saying that his dog Elon doesn’t do anything without consent, so….

    Impeachment and prison?

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      15 hours ago

      I voted for her out of attempted harm reduction, and I agree, she probably is.

      Wealthy neoliberals care as much about their fellow citizens as wealthy fascists, as they both have the same God they worship 💰

      One appeals to pretending to care about people’s well-being while taking bribes to hurt them, the other appeals to pretending to care about idiot bigot’s blood lust while taking bribes to hurt them.

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        14 hours ago

        Yeah you’re probably not far off. Similarly, I held my nose and voted for her as well. She was obviously the better choice, if only because her legacy was tied to a platform that at least on paper was significantly better than the alternative (e.g., climate change).

        Alas I raise Hillary because of the double-standards of her buttery males versus this which is infinitely worse — yet, naturally, not a peep from conservative circles.

        Because we know they’re hypocrites and ends justify means to them.

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          14 hours ago

          Perhaps if we had a candidate we didn’t have to hold our nose over, this all could have been avoided.

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            11 hours ago

            Honestly, right-wing media domination is so strong that we could resurrect George Washington, merge his DNA with Reagan’s corpse, then conjoin that with Trump’s head and call him GigaTrump and Republicans wouldn’t vote for him because of the (D).

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      1 day ago

      Realistically, what would that look like?

      1-Form a union, including the accountants?

      2-Move all money in to new bank accounts?

      3-Fire the boss and make all decisions through an elected council of workers?

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    17 hours ago

    I really hope this mobilizes the public sector into fighting him as hard as possible by all the appropriate means.

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    17 hours ago

    Who is paying these new doge employees? Settling up a new department takes time, getting everything reviewed, approved then signed off. Until they are an offical government dept they wouldn’t have authority to do anything.

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    If Biden can pardon his son, who had crack fueled sex in Ukraine, with MINORS, then Trump can pardon Musk.

    Even so, who’s going to arrest Musk? Congress?

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    11 hours ago

    Mark my words, the lawsuits on this are going to be EPIC. He is not elected, he does not hold an official position that has ever existed, and he is meddling with extremely sensitive information, I promise you there is lawyers licking their chops and praising the universe for sending this idiot to put their kids thru college. He isn’t vetted, he isn’t approved by Congress, and he’s dabbling in things that result in very serious prison sentences when handled improperly… Trumps judges simply won’t be able to ignore the extreme ramifications when a slick high priced lawyer is spelling out how musks scent is all over documents leading to vast amounts of financial loss. Long story short, there’s a reason people need a long list of credentials before accessing things like the OPM, and those entail the financial responsibilities that come with mishandling… Musky gonna learn this one the hard way.

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      I don’t disagree, but who’s gonna press charges? The second that happens, The “proud” boys, 3%ers et al mobilize and begin wiping out the prosecutors families.

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        Agreed. White nationalists are very keen to murder a judges children. Even when they don’t have presidential backing. It helps that they have disproportionate representation within law enforcement and corrections.

        Just look at the Delphi murders. The local cops got rid of the FBI, fabricated evidence, destroyed evidence and, coerced witnesses. The local prison where their framed suspect was being held tortured a confession out of the guy over the course of several months in solitary confinement. And the judge and prosecution conspired to prevent half the defence’s evidence and witnesses being used and preventing them from suggesting alternative suspects. All this to protect Patrick westfall, a meth dealing white supremacist who brutally and ritualistically slaughtered his snitch’s daughter.

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      18 hours ago

      Hillary had the decency to destroy Libya. Did Elon not get the memo that America is the holy country of the chosen people?

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        Gaddafi was a fucking monster. No one misses him or his corpse freezer. So when the people started rising up, the UN said, sure, we can help out a bit. And so flew a handful of missiles. And zero troops.

        No, the problem is that after giving minimal help to oust Gaddafi, no one stepped in to restore order. So the civil war continued.

        As a note, the Arab Spring is part of why the Saudis helped Leon buy Twitter. To make sure it couldn’t be used for that sort of uprising again.

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          Thanks for bringing back the slave market to Libya!

          You might want to recheck all the propaganda you consumed. Most of it has already been declassified as lies.

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              https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2011_Libyan_rape_allegations

              In April 2011 NBC News reported that United States ambassador, Susan Rice, told a closed-door meeting of officials at the UN that the Libyan military is using rape as a weapon in the war with the rebels and some had been issued the anti-impotency drug.

              Amnesty International said many false reports that Libyan forces committed rape had been spread as disinformation by rebel forces, and that it could not find a “single victim of rape or a doctor who knew about somebody being raped”. In June 2011, a UN investigator did not find evidence of mass rapes, and branded the claims as “hysteria”

              Reuters 2011 (along with the rest of the propaganda consurtium): U.S. says Gaddafi troops raping, issued Viagra: envoys

              Say do unproven mass rape allegations sound familiar somewhere? I vaguely recall some other mass rape allegations spread by the entire media apparatus against a certain group recently.

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      17 hours ago

      My first thought when seeing the headline was “quick, somebody tell the conservatives that he’s using Hillary’s server to do it, then maybe something will happen!”

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    2 days ago

    if you work for your state, county, city, town, or any place considered “public,” then this is going to happen to you too

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    12 hours ago

    Where are all the 2A folks? I thought this is what they were alive for? To take down a tyrannical government