Summary

A vulnerability in the new OPM email server allowed anyone to send mass messages to federal employees, exposing poor cybersecurity.

Over 13,000 NOAA staff received spam and vulgar messages, including crude jokes about Trump and bizarre newsletters, causing widespread outrage.

The breach resulted from an overhaul led by Elon Musk that installed underqualified personnel and an insecure in-house system, sparking a class-action lawsuit for cybersecurity failures.

The unsecured system also inadvertently revealed ties to Project 2025 and a plan to gather government employee data as Trump’s loyalists reshape federal operations.

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    4 hours ago

    How are people just so unaware of what’s happening in their own government?

    Like you’re on a site like this, and you know what Inspector Generals do, but you’re not aware that he fired over a dozen of them days into his term? How??

    There’s a whole lot of, “I don’t care about or pay attention to politics because nothing really changes for me” morons about to have a rude awakening.

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      3 hours ago

      Our investigative media has been dead or bought out for a long time, and despite project 2025 being published, it’s all happening really quickly. I have a difficult time believing this isn’t the downfall of America. And we almost reached 250.