Summary
Elon Musk’s DOGE website mistakenly published classified intelligence data, including personnel and budget details for the National Reconnaissance Office.
The breach sent Defense Department officials scrambling, as the NRO’s headcount and budget are typically classified. Intelligence aides confirmed the leak is problematic under current security standards.
Concerns have also been raised about DOGE’s inexperienced staff. The White House has not commented, and the site was later hacked.
" problematic under current security standards."
Is there an understatement of the year award.
It’s slightly troublesome that not only were a bunch of 20ish year olds, at least one in his past was fired for posting company secrets on discord… not only are able to walk into any government agency and get classified information… but are also, notably posting them to the public. (and that’s just what we see them doing publicly… lord knows if anything is traveling through any hidden channels etc…
That’s “problematic” in the way 9/11 was a “troubling event”.
The website posting classified info, not being secure, and hiring a 19 year old who leaked classified data at a previous job. Hmm, almost seems like Elon is actively undermining the US government and inviting various groups and countries to steal our data.
Maybe he has some war thunder arguments to settle…
Imagine if literally anyone else did this.
Other countries having our data is the least of our worries. I’m ready for China to become our new overlords if that’s the only other option.
That’s the next step. We’re seeing the sun set on the American Empire and I’m afraid it’s going to take another World War for the sun to rise on the next Empire.
Same. I hope they’re kind and don’t just ship us all off like the Uighurs.
I think most Americans could use a reeducation camp. Our society didn’t collectively kill Elon after he did a Nazi salute. We need some reeducation on how to kill Nazis.
WHY DO THEY HAVE CLASSIFIED DATA?
That’s not something you just give access to because someone says they want it and they’re high up in the command structure.
Because the people who objected to them not having the clearance to view the data were put on leave.
[Musk’s] comments come after the administration placed two top security chiefs at USAID on leave after they refused to turn over classified material in restricted areas to Musk’s government-inspection teams, a current and a former U.S. official told The Associated Press on Sunday
Jesus fucking Christ.
Does anybody else feel like we’re all nearing a collective psychotic break? Like, am I crazy, or is everything suddenly fucking crazy?
It’s not you, it’s fucking crazy.
Are we all just deciding to internalize it or something? Or is this Bystander Effect on a national scale?
Look, War Thunder isn’t going to develop itself.
Best comment.
These systems are typically air-gapped so to be able to acquire it is a particularly bad fuck-up.
That being said information from unclassed systems can become classified when put in a single place/file for easy consumption.
Either way someone really, REALLY fucked up here.
Either way someone really, REALLY fucked up here.
I wouldn’t say it’s someone as much as it’s something.
Neither of the Felonius Fuckheads have ever faced actual consequences for their actions. The entire judicial system has fucked up by teaching them that they’re above the systems of checks and balances designed to hold them accountable and prevent them from making unilateral changes to fundamental aspects of the government operates.
And so, Elon just casually walked in wherever he pleased, caused chaos and disruption with his cronies, and walked out leaving behind servers exfiltrating anything they could get their hands on.
So they can feed it to their fellow Tech Bros and probably Russia while they are at it.
Because trump works for Putin. It couldn’t be any clearer.
Lol “intelligence officials” can eat my whole asshole. They let the monkeys in without even a background check; they’ve earned their goddamn circus.
isnt he planning to clean out the cia and fbi.
Oh no! They’re worried!
Fucking do something about it for once
Of course. Trump was keeping classified documents in his bathroom after his first term and the American people rewarded him with a second. This is what Americans want.
22%.
Nah, non voters are complicit. The majority of voting citizens wanted this. America is getting what they deserve.
And 78% who can’t vote, or just didn’t care enough.
Worried, concerned, alarmed. Shut the fuck up if you aren’t going to take action now, and tell us what those actions are. We know they are actively destroying what they can while making bank. These words mean nothing if you say them and never take action. Maybe in a different time they would carry weight, but not today.
At this point I’ll believe anyone in the USA is worried when we see tanks at the Capitol.
Until then it’s impossible anymore to believe this isn’t approved by the nation.
Their Shock Doctrine approach (thank you Naomi Klein) has been incredibly successful. Reading about history in my youth, I now understand why evil prevailed then as it is now. I was looking back at times of immense tyranny and thinking “why didn’t everyone just rise up against them!?” Some are fully onboard, others partially, but many are detached, struggling to survive. The rest of us do what we can, when we can, but disjointed and unorganized.
It’s a whole lot of “please will somebody DO something!”, but the modern Democrats are not an opposition party, ever. The news media is complicit as well. There are a handful of judges and attorneys who are doing their damndest, but this is no longer a country of laws (for the rich and powerful).
The country is geographically massive and your average citizen is both poor and uneducated, both politically and otherwise, by Western standards. Now that large swaths of worker’s livelihoods are being devastated they may have more time on their hands.
I won’t hold my breath for “Occupy Washington”, but when the next movement comes it will be met with intense and violent opposition. Hopefully a silver lining may be a wake up call, far too late.
I shudder to think of what comes next as it has been festering and fomenting within this country my entire lifetime. The sophisticated propaganda machine and socioeconomic warfare has kept our citizens dumb, divided, and despondent, I pray something beneficial rises from the ashes.
There is no single answer to your question. My aim was to provide a contemporaneous snapshot of what I am experiencing. As I have been observing our descent into flagrant fascism, and telling anyone who would listen, for the better part of a century. And I hate it with every fiber of my being.
I’m so fucking tired of everyone blaming the Democrats.
Trump has a 46% approval rating. ** 46% of the American people support explicitly this. **
They don’t have the right to perform a coup without the consent of the people. And you, right now, are saying you don’t consent to their rule because they haven’t taken it by force. (What force?)
Are you aware of how unpopular any impeachment typically is? If his approval rating is 46%, impeachment won’t happen.
We’re going to have to wait for things to get bad enough that we all start to actually suffer in our lives, outside of just seeing it coming by reading the news.
Seeing the train isn’t enough. We have to wait for it to hit us.
modern Democrats are not an opposition party, ever. The news media is complicit as well.
The US political system is thoroughly broken but it’s not changed much leading up to the Trump era, it’s really the news media that made Trump happen right now.
It started in the 80s with cable news and continues today with toxic podcasts and social media. People are like your annoying ex-girlfriend - they don’t want to be told the truth, they just want to be validated. Billionaires and con artists (and billionaire con artists) have figured out how to use newer forms of media to exploit that tendency and I think it’s still getting worse. Eventually like all predators they’ll overconsume their prey but there’s a lot of suckers in the world for them to run through first.
The Democrats literally kept shifting right until they finally were endorsed by war criminals. Just because they were socially left didn’t make them in any other sense actually left. And the GOP aren’t socially right, (No problem with Thiel) they just use wedge issues, in conjunction with the Democrats, while both parties moved so far economically right, they voted to allow themselves criminal activities withheld from Joe Average, like insider trading. Martha Stewart was extremely wealthy when she was convicted of that, but she wasn’t a politician, and yes, women are still an underclass. And I don’t think that really matters, it’s just another dumb wedge to keep the plebs infighting.
I wholly agree none of us want the truth, but seek validation and continue to wallow in our victim mentality. There are exceptions, but few and far between.
Americans are resisting, for instance lot’s of people are quitting their jobs, I’ve heard about at least 3.
Sarcasm aside, I congratulate the people who refuse to aid Trump, and actually do resist. But it just doesn’t seem to be a lot.
Maybe it’s too early, but I sure hope that some real resistance will emerge, and resist and prevent MAGA in their attempt to destroy democracy completely.I mean I saw armored vehicles and armed guards at the Georgia Capitol building in Atlanta during the last few elections
Develop heart attack gun and extensive ways to fabricate blackmail. Only use it against peaceful socialists like MLK.
Well yeah, because peaceful socialists don’t generally go around developing heart attack guns, their enemies do.
You know, when it’s a regular citizen doing this prosecutors will have a warrant for arrest signed, even if it has to be done in the middle of the night on a weekend, and have a strike team arrest and detain those responsible within literal (really, literal) hours. Why does this not happen NOW?? (I know the answer.)
Well you see, legally, it’s complicated.
The only people who can go after him…work for Trump.
The people who can go after Trump are Congress. A Congress that is controlled by the party that Trump is the head of, and that head is attached directly to its ass, with absolutely no spine in between. A truly majestic creature, really.
The people who can stop him on the meantime are the courts. Which he packed with loyalists. Not just the supreme court but also many lower federal courts as well.
That’s thanks to the duodenum of the congress-beast, Mitch McConnel, who held up so many federal judge appointments during Obama’s last years in office because it was “too close to an election”. But then shoved in a new judge when RBG died two months before the 2020 election before she was even cold.
This is what most sane countries would call a “constitutional crisis”.
How do these people not have their fucking doors kicked in for this shit?
That’s why I’m going to my states senate office and raising hell. You should too. Monday Feb 17th. Be the change my friend
Because those who should be doing that are complicit, that’s how.
Maybe now the intelligence community will do their thing and none of us will have to worry about these dipshits anymore.
Can we start a rumor that Musk wants to shut down Boeing? He won’t last a month.
Lockheed Martin. Half the US military runs on their products. They’re so integrated that the military basically can’t afford to change contractors for any of it.
While we can hope for that, you gotta remember, the intelligence agencies are inherently pro-authoritarian, and anti-egalitarian (probably spelled wrong).
The USSR wasn’t the actual enemy for the last century. Communism was the enemy. The entire defense industry was built up to fight the idea of communism. It just helped that the USSR called themselves communists.
I don’t think for a second that any really meaningful classified information can be leaked without immediate consequences. And that is usually troop movements or locations.
So this means that every single bit of data they’ve already collected has been openly transmitted to Russia and our other geopolitical adversaries. Pack it up folks, we’re cooked
If you don’t want to hurt the kid, an anti material rifle would make short work of whatever body armour he’s wearing.
hes using him as a human shield, against crticism, and as a bullet"proof" armor.
I know, but he’s only protecting against headshots. No sniper in their right mind goes for a headshot. Much greater chance of hitting if you go for centre mass.
Did you know that the longest confirmed sniper kill is 3800 m. It wss made by a Ukrainian soldier using the horizon’s lord anti material rifle.
hes also using him as a “social” human shield, if the kid intercepts the bullet, people would go “oh poor baby got shot by some cold hearted,bastard”. ever heard of people using human shields in military attacks, they do the same thing, hes like them using woman or children and the guy hides behind them while attacking an enemy. it helps turn public opinion in musks favor. Musk however does not care if the child gets hit, also hes keeping it from GRIMES.
I had to look that up, I assumed that name was a typo. Daaaaaamn.
For anyone else wondering:
I can see why he’s carrying that kid of his around now.
The way he’s going, he’s just going to get the kid killed.
