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.
So…a fucking CRIME, right?
This is why I think it’s heinous presidential pardons were ever allowed to be on the books. Must have reminded the founders of the kingly powers they sought to replace?
How did no one ever consider that you can do as many crimes as you want, so long as the president will pardon you?
Like???
Really dumb, if you ask me.
Yes. He has literally committed a capital offense. He could literally hang for this.
Not anymore! With constitution 2.0 only bad moms who forget to pick up their kids from the baseball game on time will ever be prosecuted for capital offences and sentenced to capital punishment… Not rich guys!
Spoiler: He won’t.
Yes. So what?
Law doesn’t matter. Breaking the law is common. And if anything, Trump’s first term is all the proof we didn’t even need that laws won’t stop this.
I wonder what the NSA, FBI and CIA are doing about this shit? They must be monitoring this crap…right?
Only the FBI would be involved NSA and CIA are foreign Intel focused.
CIA and NSA fucking around inside the country would be nothing new.
Not for the benefit of the citizen though
Remember that we’re not allowed to call for violence, even when all civil options have failed. There’s going to come a time when empty comments come to carry a meaning of their own.
Very disgusting of Elon.
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.
He will be pardoned before it all starts.
Lmao. Cute you think lawsuits are going to get further beyond filing. Youre bouta find out law is only law if it is being enforced.
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.
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.
It’s a real shame that the headline isn’t “Foreign hacker and his enabler in the White House arrested and imprisoned in solitary until they can be sent to Gitmo for life”
They are auditing OPM. Step #1 of the IT portion of an audit is to copy the existing data so that it can be examined without any risk of altering the original data.
I guaranfucklckingtee that you posted “but her emails” shit in the past. Get outta here with your bullshit…
OK. Awesome. Lets just glaze over the whole illegal email server part. It’s great that there is a process.
Are THEY following that process, though?
This whole scenario is just chock full of security holes you could drive a truck through. I expect lots more American data to end up the hands of adversaries and various independent bad actors: foreign state adversaries, not just the Republican internal adversaries.
LOL, “auditing”. More like trying to break shit, and find the rare out-of-context bullshit to throw to the rubes (or just make up shit entirely, like the condoms nonsense).
If you think that’s what’s happening, I would recommend putting the glue down and letting the fumes clear.
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.
it was an already existing department, it was just renamed.
Looking at what they’re doing to other departments, do you think the pre-existing department continues in any meaningful way ?
This admin does not care about rules, laws, preexisting norms, etc. Congress has decided they don’t care and have turned a blind eye.
At this point I just want there to be more transparency because some of what is being done needs to be done to some capacity, but we need to know what is being investigated, that they’re respecting our privacy laws, and the final decisions about funding and the future of departments need to be decided in part by Congress or a grandjury of some sort.
I’m all for simplifying and cutting cold war budget bloat, but this is not the way to do it and I guarantee this will blow up in our faces as Elon is way out of touch with what services the average American needs.
It’s hard to take their claims of balancing the budget seriously when at the same time there are even more proposals for tax cuts. You’d think if they are serious about cutting into the deficit they’d maintain taxes or increase them and reduce spending.
some of what is being done needs to be done to some capacity,
It does?
Save 2 trillion? Easier ways to do this by getting rid of loopholes.
What is being done to stop him?
Nothing. The government isn’t acting. I do not believe there is any useful legal avenue left. That just leaves civilians and other nations. Most civilians are completely powerless and other nations aren’t going to get involved unless they are dragged into the mess. Image Nazi Germany except they never invaded Poland. The countries in which Fascism wasn’t taking root were happy to look the other way and make concessions. Things are likely to get much worse before they get any better.
Germany took a part of Czech territory without anyone really doing anything about it because they pinky promised not to do it again
I’m sure the DOJ is on this and working on a case. /S
Governmentally? Not a lot. All the people who would be responsible for doing anything work for the people doing it. All the people who are supposed to have oversight either agree with it, or we’re just put into the minority by voters.
The only real options available are for someone to sue in a federal court and hope they get a judge who isn’t a trump appointee.Outside the government? Legally, this is what the election decided the nation wanted, and there isn’t much that can be done.
Anything outside the scope of legal action isn’t going to be discussed online openly. You see small snippets of data being backed up to archive services, so you know that there are people doing things, but if you’re doing something outside the scope of what the administration wants, you keep quiet.
Locate that server, and make it drink some water…
Mercury. Make it drink a pound of mercury. Right on top of the hard drive.
thermite
Shaped charges are extremly good for wiping larger clusters.
Cluster munitions against storage clusters works well too, I hear.
If the server isn’t legal, smashing it with hammer isn’t illegal. Also, it’s perfectly legal for guards to shoot intruders in federal buildings.
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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?
Whether or not he had “crack fueled sex in Ukraine, with MINORS,” that was not what he was convicted for and not what he was pardoned for.
Don’t argue with Nazis
Backdoor to Russia no doubt
Somewhere, Hillary Clinton is laughing.
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.
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.
Perhaps if we had a candidate we didn’t have to hold our nose over, this all could have been avoided.
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).
It’s not really republicans that we need to attract. It’s all the people the DNC abandoned in pursuit of the corporate dollar.
Yup and let’s see what they’re up to, oh they’re trying to strengthen anti-piracy laws I’m sure that’ll help Americans
Oh, they never cared at all about the emails. That was just to gin up outrage among stupid people. Otherwise, they would have gone after Republicans that did it first.
OPM also houses all the clearance applications and associated investigation paperwork. Great…
They literally rolled a server in and plugged it in to send emails…
I have no idea why what you said is relevant
Because networks tend to be built like an egg. Hard shell on the outside, soft on the inside. Once you have something inside, it tends to be easier to break the rest.
Remember the OPM data breach in 2015? This is that, but for all OPM data, instead of some of it or most of it. For those unfamiliar with an SF86 (or eQIP); it’s your entire employment, educational, and residential history. All foreign nationals you maintain contact with, family history, financial history, travel history, anything that may be relevant in granting a security clearance.
I went to OPM right after this happened, everybody I met was fired.
This can include invesigators’ findings and interviews.
I had to fill one out over a decade ago for a government job, and they even sent letters to the people I put as references to ask if there was any reason I shouldn’t work for the government. Once I got the job that place was super locked down; if you try to (or accidentally) use your badge on a door you’re not cleared for, expect a talking to.
Well that security was all for nothing I guess 🤷♂️
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