Summary

The appointment of former Tesla engineer Thomas Shedd as head of the Technology Transformation Services (TTS) has disrupted the agency responsible for U.S. government IT infrastructure.

TTS employees report being summoned to sudden meetings with unidentified individuals lacking government credentials, raising concerns over security and oversight.

Shedd, aligned with Musk’s government efficiency initiatives, emphasizes cost-cutting and tech adoption.

Workers fear the changes could expose sensitive data or compromise government operations, while confusion grows over the agency’s direction under new leadership.

  • @gedaliyahM
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    397 hours ago

    I wonder how difficult it would be for a bad actor to walk right into a government office with bogus credentials to “inspect” things. All this chaos is bad for national security.

    • @[email protected]
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      195 hours ago

      The real question is how difficult would it be for a bad actor with a fake github to charm an appointee and be put into a job like this.

      There’s a non-zero chance North Korea’s tech firm espionage group is trying exactly this, because these fools don’t want to wait for pesky things like security clearances.

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    7 hours ago

    TTS employees report being summoned to sudden meetings with unidentified individuals lacking government credentials, raising concerns over security and oversight.

    Uh, don’t have that meeting then? This work has to at least touch on controlled unclassified information, the rules don’t go away just because your new boss doesn’t know them. Also, this is exactly the sort of thing people would do to test that the rules were being followed. Work to rule.

  • @[email protected]
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    8511 hours ago

    I’m pretty sure the point is to get sensitive information and weaken government IT infrastructure.

    That’s the whole modus operandi of these traitorous [unable to find strong enough words to describe them].

  • @[email protected]
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    1911 hours ago

    This is going to be great. I’m sure that musks little lackeys will definitely make things run smoothly and more efficiently and not get in the way of everything and bring our already lacking IT and cybersecurity to its knees with dumb bs and muskies pet projects, right?

    • @fluxion
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      13 hours ago

      Just like Twitter

  • @Hobbes_Dent
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    1511 hours ago

    X-Force, Americas enhanced non-diverse super soldiers.

    Or.

    Elons suckup staff and AI have real military code privileges, and staff do what they say.

    🎶 One of these things is not as plausible as the… 🎶 fucking lol yes they’re both completely plausible.