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.
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.
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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 🤷♂️
This can include invesigators’ findings and interviews.
I went to OPM right after this happened, everybody I met was fired.
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”
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
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.I’m sure the DOJ is on this and working on a case. /S
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
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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.
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.
If you think that’s what’s happening, I would recommend putting the glue down and letting the fumes clear.
I guaranfucklckingtee that you posted “but her emails” shit in the past. Get outta here with your bullshit…
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).
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.
Where are all the 2A folks? I thought this is what they were alive for? To take down a tyrannical government
They just said that so all those murdered children wouldn’t make their hobby slightly less convenient. You didn’t actually believe them did you?
No, I just wanted to hear the mental gymnastics they use to justify it
I consider myself a Libertarian, so I am 2A, even though I voted Democrat in the last election. I don’t think people need full auto AKs, rocket launchers, etc but something reasonable to be able to protect themselves. My biggest issue is, if guns were banned, the criminals aren’t going to give theirs up, they don’t give a crap if it’s illegal to own one. I am also not opposed to reasonable background checks, make sure someone isn’t delusional before they can buy a gun. Responsible gun owners (myself included) don’t want to have to use our weapons against another human. Someone who thinks killing innocent people is “okay” needs mental help. I want to add: I am deeply troubled with what is going on in our country, this is a dangerous road we have started down, and we need to be prepared for what may come. I think tRump is only 2A because that’s what his supporters expect, I could totally see him banning guns for everyone but his “loyalists”
As an outsider, its crazy to see other countries band together to go out and protest in the tens of thousands. Where are all the people? Is this really how america is just going to roll over and die? I was expecting more
most sane Libertarian take right here
They’re all too busy making sure Hillary Clinton isn’t using a private server for her email.
Christ ….i remember when people considered that “the worst bad thing”. You’ve come so far.
And by people, you mean the dumbest and worst people.
they just say that because it sounds better than “I hope one day a black guy tries to break into my house so I can kill one”
They lied it was all about having biggest peen
Fragile masculinity go brrr.
I don’t know the English onomatopoeia for shattering glass. :(
They’re deeply unserious about everything they scream about. They have no respect or serious connection with the US constitution. They only cling to the talking points like “the second amendment” because they know it gives them the right to be violent, and to the people who installed this man as shadow-president, they only care about having the right to hurt people they hate, and they hate a LOT of people.
Mark my words, if there’s an executive leader that gives them the right to carry guns and hurt people, but discards the constitution, they will be first to piss on that document.
Turns out they were mostly hoping to shoot liberals that were trying to kick down their doors to take guns and force them into a gay marriage.
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.
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.
He will be pardoned before it all starts.
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.
Sounds like a lie
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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?
It’d look like a civil war first. One socialists sure as fuck aren’t winning.
Tesla dealers now know how much you make, your health, etc…
Starlink knows your sexual history, financials, health, and physical location
To be fair, data brokers already know that stuff. The difference is now Tesla doesn’t have to buy the data.
In a few years we’re probably going to find out that Musk uses the cameras on Teslas to 1)creep on women he likes 2) spy on politicians for compromising material Between Teslas and Starlink he literally knows where people are.
We already know that tesla corp share footage of anything “fun” around the office. We have known for years.
“Dear China, spreads open butthole, please come in. Love, MAGA.” - Trump email sent to Xi
What a horrible day to have a functioning imagination
I started on the Internet in the 90s. Once you get past Goatse, Tubgirl and 2 Girls, 1 Cup, your imagination for horrific things people say on the internet gets severely muted.
Elon will use social security numbers to hire more Indians in the branches of government.
I do have a question though, are employees of the United States Intelligence Community being affected by this?
Most definitely. The article mentioned USAJobs, which everyone goes through, including the CIA and the other alphabet agencies.
I don’t know if the intelligence community does any sort of obfuscation for counterintelligence purposes (so that your job title isn’t [Spy Grade 4 - Stationed in Greenland] outward facing to OPM) but they’ll definitely have access to names and vitals for everyone in that system.
You can go on usajobs yourself…
Descriptions are ridiculously vague and always have been.
But actual spies would never be listed as “spy grade X” because in the system they’d be whatever the cover story is.
Elon was going through job titles before the election and whining about how they aren’t real jobs, the reasons for this obfuscation would easily get lost in the purge because no one who knows/cares is in a position to say anything
But they’re not going to be applying thru USA jobs in the first place, the obfuscation would be at the payroll processor if anywhere…
Like, there’s just so much wrong shit being repeated by people with zero federal experience or even knowledge, that you can’t just assume everything else is true when someone just talks about one aspect that’s clearly wrong.
This is the HR division of the US government. EVERYBODY is affected by this.
bUt WhAt AbOuT hEr EmAiLs
Lock him up.
Remind me, how many felony convictions did Hilary Clinton have? I want to say it was pretty close to zero.
Every accusation is a confession
We need a buttery males bot. Or maybe not lol, it was obnoxious on Reddit.
i just got it. took me a while
Nice. You’ve had well over 8 years for that one.
Puns ain’t my strong suit
Perseverance, though. You got there in the end.
