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.

  • @Valorie12
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    After this, is there any question that he didn’t do something to hack vote counting machines? I’m feeling like this election wasn’t legitimate.

    • @chuckleslord
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      Yes, he didn’t. They want to make everyone question the legitimacy of the elections, so they’re pretending that they orchestrated something. In reality, there was nothing suspicious about the election. The only ratfucking was the normal, Gerrymandering kind. And a metric fuck ton of misinformation.

        • NSRXN
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          113 minutes ago

          or.

          if you are sick of being disenfranchised by Democrats

          • @[email protected]
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            Not that I haven’t said much the same, but you’re about to find out what disenfranchisement really feels like while whining about what voting system you should have had.

  • @Gammelfisch
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    I wonder what the NSA, FBI and CIA are doing about this shit? They must be monitoring this crap…right?

  • @[email protected]
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    122 hours ago

    This is starting to exceed even my pessimistic doomsday expectations. And we aren’t even a month in yet.

  • @[email protected]
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    3 hours ago

    Elon Musk needs to be charged, convicted, and hanged for treason against the republic.

    • @ynthrepic
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      Only to be pardoned by the great leader of course.

    • @jaybone
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      61 hour ago

      Do you have to be a citizen to commit treason? Did he actually obtain citizenship after committing his visa fraud? I’d like to see the long form certificate of his citizenship. Last time they complained someone was born in Africa it was a big deal…

      • @[email protected]
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        101 hour ago

        He is a US citizen. He can be charged, convicted, and hanged for treason. And there isn’t even any case law about whether a non-citizen can be charged with treason.

    • @[email protected]
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      112 hours ago

      Glad I am not the only one who had an altered view of the death penalty in light of recent events.

      • @[email protected]
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        Treason holds a special place in my heart.

        There’s the slight problem of “it’s only treason if you fail”, though. It’s a corollary of “history is written by the winners”.

        • @[email protected]
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          131 minutes ago

          Not really. Sometimes even the Victor’s of wars and battles executed the traitors to the other side that helped them. Very much a case of love the treason hate the traitor.

    • @CharlesDarwin
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      139 minutes ago

      I would accept him being sent to Gitmo for life.

  • @[email protected]
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    985 hours ago

    There really was no plan at all about preventing fascists from just marching in and doing whatever they want, huh? We were just supposed to count on people to do the right thing? Surprised this didn’t happen sooner, honestly.

    • @[email protected]
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      443 minutes ago

      All the laws that were put in place after Nixon didn’t really lay out a punishment. They assumed impeachment would still be the remedy used. Not sure what changed between the 70s and now that made senators afraid to challenge their president.

    • masterofn001
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      Checks and balances.

      Checks and balances.

      Checks and balances.

      Fascism and collapse.

      Oops.

      • @Serinus
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        The Judicial system is being gish galloped. Let’s see if Congress gives a shit especially as Elon has usurped the Power of the Purse.

    • @[email protected]
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      274 hours ago

      No one is supposed to follow illegal orders. But, who is to say what’s illegal and isn’t? And who are you going to call when they force you? The people executing Trumps orders? Is it worth not going home to your family over, or should you just let the courts decide? And who is to adjudicate your guilt? And can you even afford to fight it? Not if you’re a non-corrupt civil servant.

      No, there is no plan for the country choosing evil.

      • @[email protected]
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        52 hours ago

        If they don’t follow their illegal orders they will still arrested them or fire them for insubordination. If something is done in the end those people will not get their jobs back or have their records cleared or be compensated in any way.

        Meanwhile the perps won’t get shit done to them.

      • @dx1
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        It was built into the system, one way or another. The founders were morons. Even at its best, you have a few hundred people you have to corrupt to take over the entire country.

        • The Quuuuuill
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          204 hours ago

          The Iroquois Nation will retain its title for longest lasting known democracy on North American soil

          • @[email protected]
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            Are they accepting refugees? Or did we wipe them out?

            This was supposed to be funny, but tbh I’m too ignorant to made a decent joke about it. Obviously they would just be under US jurisdiction if they still exist, and probably don’t have that kind of power, but fuck maybe it’s time for native Americans to kick the rest of us back to the sea because we obviously don’t deserve their land.

            • @AugustWest
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              maybe it’s time for native Americans to kick the rest of us back to the sea because we obviously don’t deserve their land

              🌎👨‍🚀🔫👨‍🚀

        • @[email protected]
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          13 hours ago

          In their defense, there’s no way they could have imagined the modern world. The system worked okay for the world they lived in, but it became woefully inadequate over the next 200 years or so. They probably hoped that future generation were the ones that wouldn’t be morons.

          • @dx1
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            It didn’t work okay for the world they lived in. Alien and Sedition acts were in, what, the second presidency?

    • @[email protected]
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      32 hours ago

      Story of my life, too. I always expect people to do the right thing… but they never do.

  • BoofStroke
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    73 hours ago

    Wonder if they have a NAC and if those who manage it would kill all packets to and from that server. Surely the government has some infosec professionals who will uphold their oaths and do their jobs.

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      They are civil servants, they have to choose between knocking him off the network or feeding their kids next week.

      There’s also a chance they are siding with him.

      • ⛓️‍💥
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        124 minutes ago

        I don’t want to sound too doomery but their lives may honestly be on the line.

  • @[email protected]
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    334 hours ago

    Elon Musk didn’t install anything. He just gave the order.

    I know for a fact he doesn’t understand anything about server technology.

    • @BrianTheeBiscuiteer
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      As an unelected, unappointed worker he shouldn’t have any power outside of DOGE (which kind of doesn’t even exist).

  • @[email protected]
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    93 hours ago

    if you work for your state, county, city, town, or any place considered “public,” then this is going to happen to you too

    • @[email protected]
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      254 minutes ago

      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?

  • AtHeartEngineer
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    556 hours ago

    OPM also houses all the clearance applications and associated investigation paperwork. Great…

    • @[email protected]
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      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.

      • Thassodar
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        44 hours ago

        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.

    • @givesomefucks
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      They literally rolled a server in and plugged it in to send emails…

      I have no idea why what you said is relevant

      • @[email protected]
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        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.

  • @thisorthatorwhatever
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    Tesla dealers now know how much you make, your health, etc…

    Starlink knows your sexual history, financials, health, and physical location

    • Pennomi
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      306 hours ago

      To be fair, data brokers already know that stuff. The difference is now Tesla doesn’t have to buy the data.

      • @thisorthatorwhatever
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        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.

        • @[email protected]
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          We already know that tesla corp share footage of anything “fun” around the office. We have known for years.

  • @Hayduke
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    286 hours ago

    Time to deport this twat

  • @foggy
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    126 hours ago

    What is being done to stop him?

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      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.

    • @[email protected]
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      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.