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.

  • @[email protected]
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    2310 hours ago

    Holy shit.
    That’s some shit that contravenes every security briefing, every security best practice.
    Then they go and spoof a legit government installation with their own bullshit?!
    Fucking Hilary and her email servers. But like times 10. Legitimately compromising the US government communications.
    Why is this lawsuits, why isn’t this treason?!

    • @[email protected]
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      198 hours ago

      This is way worse than Hillary’s email servers.

      Hillary occasionally conducted government business on an email servers owned by her, but also on her (not .gov) domain.

      I never knew the details. But I wouldn’t doubt that for simplicity sake they probably had multiple accounts configured on the same phone. At that point, it’s incredibly easy to accidentally respond or start a chain from the wrong address. Who among us hasn’t done that, we actually grew up with this stuff.

      What Musk did was set up his own separate infrastructure to send and receive emails, on a .gov domain, and use that server, as a private contractor to the president, to circumvent tons of critical processes and security practices, in order to push his clients agenda.

      The point of that agenda is to nip checks-and-balances in the balls so the president can unilaterally enact “his” (or the highest bidders…Heritage, Musk, Thiel, Federalists, Illuminati, Skull and Bones, whatever, at this point it’s all the same) agenda.

      It. Is. Actual. Treason.

      By an illegal immigrant, no less.

    • @dhork
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      1210 hours ago

      why isn’t this treason?!

      Because Musk bought the election for Trump, and now Musk do whatever he wants.