Imagine having worked there for years. You follow all those opsec and cybersecurity rules painstakingly because it’s all so important and everything. And then some student waltzes in and just does whatever.
A student who may very well be a malignant narcissist, who doesn’t understand how anything works outside of their highly niche studies.
All that… annual training.
This is the guy writting back door access into computer systems in the government? This can only end badly. One day when America’s enemy get aggressive enough they will exploit this weakness in our system he put in. It be 100% this guy’s fault when that happens.
You tell me a 23 years old can be compromised ! Who would have thought !
Heavy threats or promised large sum of money won’t be used against such a strong willfull man right ?
Ageism right here. There is nothing preventing a 23 year old from holding a security clearance and being as trustworthy as a 50 year old.
That 23 year old can easily be compromised. I know this because he was, by musk.
My grandma could snap that mfer in half and she’s been dead for years.
So criticise him for being a boot licking clown employed by the Swasticar king.
Age is not a valid criticism here.
Every person is different. But on average, younger people are easier to trick. As are the elderly. The former lacks experience. The latter loses faculties.
It’s ageist to pre judge a person based on age. It’s not ageist to understand the progression of the human mind.
You wouldn’t say it’s ageist that babies are easy to trick, would you?
There it is again, infantilizing an adult.
There’s no evidence this guy has been tricked. There’s a lot of evidence he’s a piece of shit.
Maybe. See, you assume this person has a full comprehension of what’s he’s doing, why he’s doing it, and the historical context around what musk is doing. You assume he’s all-in on being a fascist.
You’re assuming this guy is a genius who spent his time learning programming and history and politics. And from there he decided that he’ll help overthrow a government.
I remember being that age, and apparently I wasn’t as smart because I just learned programming by then. It took will into my 30s to start to understand social issues and into my 40s to start to get politics. I worked for a very evil corporation because the money was good, and never gave it a second thought.
If we knew the guy’s name we could look him up online and see if his posts are more “well researched Nazi” or “easily fooled lonely edgelord”. But if I had to put money on it, I’m betting it’s the latter.
Brain development.
So you dont mind a inexperienced 23 years old running the energy dept. You know the one whom handles fissile materials etc…
And don’t forget he has no security clearance, was not vetted.
His age and his lack of clearance are entirely separate matters, one is worthy of criticism and the other isn’t.
What about experience? Can a 23 year old have the experience to understand the gravity of what he is dealing with?
A 23 year old is an adult, can drive, have children and kill people in war.
Stop infantilising the person. You should criticise them based on their actual actions.
"Although the brain stops growing in size by early adolescence, the teen years are all about fine-tuning how the brain works. The brain finishes developing and maturing in the mid-to-late 20s. The part of the brain behind the forehead, called the prefrontal cortex, is one of the last parts to mature. "
That doesn’t answer my question.
You’re the only one that brought up clearance.
You tell me a 23 years old can be compromised
It’s almost like there’s context here. https://lemmy.world/comment/14942989
If only there were a vetting process to allow Government to check if someone is or is likely to be compromised!
Maybe once the person has been cleared through that process we could give them something that can be recognised between agencies? Some sort of clearance?
It’s not just about (and has little to do with) security clearance. A 23 year old is very unlikely to have enough experience in literally fucking anything to be wielding the authority and property of the American people like these children are.
“ageism”
What are you, 14?
I’m almost old enough to be his father, and also old enough to recognise that you’re a fucking muppet
Oh god! Not the Muppet!
If you think any 23 year old should be allowed to create backdoors into the systems that control nukes then you are probably too young to properly judge this situation.
Criticising the installation of back doors is valid, trying to paint me as not old enough is hilarious and more ageism.
Not only am I old enough, I happen to be a cyber security expert, capable of understanding that a Government department has more than one system, and backdoors to one system does not magically grant access to nukes.
It’s just funny you crying agism and defending this guy for literally any reason
We both know why you’re here
I just don’t defend fascists because I know it leads to nothing good
We both know why you’re here
Because I’m pointing out how idiotic it is to criticise someone based on their age when there is an absolute truckload of valid reasons to criticise them?
He’s not defending anyone though, as I understand it he’s just saying that there are valid reasons for criticising this, but age isn’t among them
That’s how people defend shitty people they agree with but are too embarrassed to agree with publicly.
The term is sympathizer.
At 23, men’s frontal lobes aren’t even fully developed. You’re substantially wrong.
At 23 you can hold a security clearance. Being 23 does not make you a liar, security risk or inherently untrustworthy.
At 50 you can be a lying stealing murdering meth addict.
His age is not the problem here.
You are demonstrably wrong. Perhaps there is an issue with your frontal lobes if you cannot comprehend this simple concept.
US Department of Energy is responsible for the transportation of all assembled nuclear weapons
While the department’s chief information office does not control IT systems for nuclear weapons labs, it does provide connectivity and internet services for the National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) headquarters.
Even worse.
This is every hackers wet dream. Access to government systems they should not have any right to access. Our enemies couldn’t dream of a better scenario. A few young stupid and inexperienced developers writing backdoors to previously secure systems for some rich dumb oligarch to exploit and leaving national security completely exposed.
Our enemies did dream it. They also planned it and executed it.
Wrote up a summary months ago (with reputable sources!) and warned about Nazis too and was permabanned from Lemmy news and politics for it.
Idk man, you can tell people stuff, but it’s so hard for them to access what’s real right now. There’s a concerted online effort to suppress factual info.
How long before security in one of these departments physically stops these guys from waltzing in
I wouldn’t hold my breath. In the end, these are people trying to feed their families, which is going to be impossible if they are resisting this too hard. The attack by the magats is unprecedented in this respect.
It’s sad. This is how we get to “just following orders”, and I can’t say I blame them for not stopping them. Even if they wanted to, they’d just be replaced by someone who wouldn’t.
The key problem is that they started by getting rid of all the people who’s job it is to enforce the laws that are being broken.
When someone without a family that can be disappeared when the orange turd has a hissyfit is in the way?
It’s win/win… He’ll be the perfect scapegoat when this move inevitably ends up killing Americans.
No security clearance? Trying to access sensitive national security government systems?
That sounds like something that falls into the all enemies, foreign and domestic category.
What’s awesome is that this kind of thing is objectively bad.
But 50% will defend it, not because they think it’s right necessarily, but because their guy is the one in charge and 99% of US voters form their opinions solely on the basis of convenience.
Oh, fantastic, another nepo-baby speedrun through national security. Why bother with clearances when your last name is Musk? 23 years old and already bypassing protocols like it’s a Tesla recall.
The Energy Department’s IT systems? Not exactly TikTok servers, but sure, let’s hand over the keys to someone whose resume reads like “intern at dad’s company.”
At this point, the clearance process is just vibes. Good luck, grid.
“Adding to the controversy, sources revealed that there are plans to install a SpaceX network security engineer as the Energy Department’s new chief information officer. This move, if confirmed, would further solidify Musk’s influence in key government sectors, particularly in cybersecurity " Whats it going to take for us to take this shit back? This is straight up a security threat and anyone else who had taken over this” email and Microsoft 365" information would have been hounded by the FBI, the CIA all the alphabet teams. WHAT THE FUCK IS GOING ON!!!
