Post Aqm2DP0OfmV5U2H71E by passwordsarehard4@mastodon.social
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(DIR) Post #AqlnO5KqeDe4LnTcae by GossiTheDog@cyberplace.social
2025-02-04T08:54:21Z
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A 25-year-old who's worked for Elon Musk companies now has direct control over a Treasury system disbursements from which amount to a fifth of the US economy. He has high-level admin privileges on a mainframe housing all the code. Access granted as debt ceiling crisis looms, officials in charge of the area have resigned in protest. https://www.wired.com/story/elon-musk-associate-bfs-federal-payment-system/
(DIR) Post #AqlnO6k3PzOyiGHGW8 by meatlotion@mas.erb.pw
2025-02-04T08:56:26Z
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@GossiTheDog is he qualified and certified to do the job?
(DIR) Post #AqlnU0TjcLop1dSOtU by Life_is@no-pony.farm
2025-02-04T08:57:50Z
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@meatlotion @GossiTheDog Thinking of Musk, he is probably "hardcore", has a matress next to his desk and works 180 hours a week.
(DIR) Post #AqlnYh5h80UoLLRoK8 by meatlotion@mas.erb.pw
2025-02-04T08:58:41Z
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@jkb @GossiTheDog no the 25 year old of which you posted.
(DIR) Post #Aqlnnj4W2rKapa41se by meatlotion@mas.erb.pw
2025-02-04T09:01:27Z
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@alex02 @jkb @GossiTheDog has he been given the job to satisfy some requirement to give someone younger a chance?
(DIR) Post #AqloRQ2qCrH5P3CwRU by meatlotion@mas.erb.pw
2025-02-04T09:08:35Z
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@jkb @GossiTheDog Maybe he's in charge of it because he has proven he can make money work owing to the fact he is/was the richest man on the planet, he couldn't have done that unless he knew a thing or two (whether it was agreeable or not to other people).Perhaps drastic times call for drastic measures, because the US seem to have been in a dire state for the last number of years, I guess time will tell.If it's already at rock bottom, it can't get any worse right?
(DIR) Post #Aqm2DP0OfmV5U2H71E by passwordsarehard4@mastodon.social
2025-02-04T11:42:26Z
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@meatlotion @GossiTheDog it’s not even a job, he volunteered.
(DIR) Post #Aqq3jCBckIxbZz5eDo by GossiTheDog@cyberplace.social
2025-02-04T09:03:32Z
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For those wondering, he didn’t apply for a job - he was installed by DOGE, similar to USAID takeover. Trump signed an executive order allowing DOGE to effectively do whatever it wants, so now you have Elon running around installing people.
(DIR) Post #Aqq3jD5zMk2yOnSf4q by GossiTheDog@cyberplace.social
2025-02-06T09:10:15Z
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A 19 year old has been given admin access to the core US treasury financial system by Elon Musk’s DOGE. He goes by the name of “Mr. Big Balls” online, is on Russian forums, and has tried to purchase DDoS botnets. Elon has said sharing this information is illegal, so please do not press the boost button. https://www.wired.com/story/edward-coristine-tesla-sexy-path-networks-doge/
(DIR) Post #Aqq3jDtcODkIsigIQy by meatlotion@mas.erb.pw
2025-02-06T09:11:29Z
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@GossiTheDog 19 year old? I thought he was 25 the other day? 😅
(DIR) Post #Aqq3jEO6Ys8GPGwdxA by GossiTheDog@cyberplace.social
2025-02-06T09:12:25Z
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@meatlotion different person. The average age is 22.
(DIR) Post #Aqq3jEpku4FZn1sj3I by meatlotion@mas.erb.pw
2025-02-06T09:16:43Z
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@GossiTheDog maybe wired.com are just pumping crap onto the wall to see what sticks - are they a fake news outlet? I've never really read anything from them before, but they seem to have a "Lean Left" bias according to AllSides (https://www.allsides.com/news-source/wired)
(DIR) Post #Aqq3jFaY65gG89m5zM by the_moep@mastodon.de
2025-02-06T09:23:28Z
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@meatlotionWired is a reputable source that has been around for over 30 years.Also "leaning left" from an US perspective means they are pretty conservative in the grand scheme of things so that has zero implication regarding their trustworthyness. 🤣@GossiTheDog
(DIR) Post #Aqq3jGB3uKt5xOrFtw by meatlotion@mas.erb.pw
2025-02-06T09:25:54Z
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@the_moep @GossiTheDog according to AllSides, Lean Left means liberal, progressive - and they were upgraded to full Left in Jan - if I were wanting to rely on their post as fact I would need to see some more evidence than just this one post, I'm not saying it isn't true, but this is just one post.
(DIR) Post #Aqq3jH40c2q8hoZ8Xw by the_moep@mastodon.de
2025-02-06T09:32:22Z
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@meatlotionI've read what your linked site said about the leanings, they rate liberal-centrist views as "left" and literal human-rights violating nazi-crap as "right", which realistically should be on a separate "illegal" rating outside the spectrum. It is such an insane way to frame things and typical for US-centric thinking of how the world supposedly works.Try looking up what actually left viewpoints are e.g. in South America or Europe and you'll notice that they go way farther than what that site describes as "left". (Hint: as long as states are in place it's not really "left")@GossiTheDog
(DIR) Post #Aqq3jHku2Z9QqqdOPA by meatlotion@mas.erb.pw
2025-02-06T09:41:18Z
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@the_moep @GossiTheDog I see what you're saying, but the article in question is about the US, so a political scale based on the US is fitting in this case. Learning about left and right in other countries isn't going to help relating to this topic.
(DIR) Post #Aqq3jIDGL7puGnu2bo by martinlentink@mastodon.social
2025-02-06T10:18:28Z
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@meatlotion @the_moep @GossiTheDog You think you're in the US here?
(DIR) Post #Aqq3tN1rHx4u6QNG6a by meatlotion@mas.erb.pw
2025-02-06T10:20:36Z
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@martinlentink @the_moep @GossiTheDog I'm not in the US, no. But if I read an article from the US, based on US content, I want to know what all the US-isms mean.
(DIR) Post #Aqq4BVI1JXrow2a2LY by scaramanga@union.place
2025-02-06T09:33:25Z
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@meatlotion @alex02 @jkb @GossiTheDog typical DEI hire...
(DIR) Post #Aqq4xyqeie5gVetd20 by iStone@nerdculture.de
2025-02-06T09:21:16Z
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@GossiTheDog Ah shit I boosted. :ablobcatgrumpy:
(DIR) Post #Aqq4y00cP5ec6qZ6CO by GossiTheDog@cyberplace.social
2025-02-06T09:23:27Z
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@iStone
(DIR) Post #Aqq58Vj7Kh3tNNOKRM by datenwolf@chaos.social
2025-02-06T10:34:30Z
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@meatlotion @the_moep @GossiTheDog Nooo… so much no. The US is not the center of the world and in the grand scheme of things a useful cartography of the political atlas must happen within a global frame of reference.Otherwise you'd run afoul of cognitive biases such as assuming the local center of gravity of your immediate political spectrum to be the absolute center.
(DIR) Post #Aqq59eBDOD87sn4kxE by Ra@mstdn.social
2025-02-06T09:46:27Z
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@meatlotion @GossiTheDog I'd be a little wary of hearing your metric for mondo2000, which was also a print mag like wired back in the 90s. Wired was the one that ads for high-end cars & watches back then.
(DIR) Post #Aqq7cEsCl2U5hZwfL6 by skry@mastodon.social
2025-02-06T11:02:16Z
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@meatlotion @the_moep @GossiTheDog https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/feb/05/musk-doge-takeover-usaidhttps://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/elon-musk-doge-usaid-treasury-government-rcna190450
(DIR) Post #Aqq8YU7IF199m3mCgq by Teskariel@eldritch.cafe
2025-02-06T11:12:48Z
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@meatlotion @martinlentink @the_moep @GossiTheDog If you were to read an article by an Iranian news source that was considered dangerously secular in Iran, would you consider that a sign of untrustworthiness?
(DIR) Post #AqqA1uIG5xkDJQUzhI by joriki@infosec.exchange
2025-02-06T11:29:20Z
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@meatlotion @the_moep @GossiTheDog
(DIR) Post #AqqASy5W5yaetpRVnk by MoiraEve@mastodon.world
2025-02-06T11:34:11Z
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@meatlotion Reality has a left bias, does it, to you? @GossiTheDog
(DIR) Post #AqqCgHtrwg8w1DTQga by hydropsyche@ecoevo.social
2025-02-06T11:59:02Z
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@meatlotion @GossiTheDog Do you have any evidence that anything in the articles is untrue?
(DIR) Post #AqqCrGequ7llLqgYKG by bleepbloop@ravenation.club
2025-02-06T12:01:00Z
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@meatlotion @the_moep @GossiTheDog …what everyone else said about Wired. They’re a serious publisher of long standing. And you’ve only got this profile of them from “All Sides” which is just one source. I’d get another source if I were you.
(DIR) Post #AqqFG7tqnsTdKvgLVg by benroyce@mastodon.social
2025-02-06T12:27:54Z
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@meatlotion @the_moep @GossiTheDog sometimes resistance to accepting something you read is a sign of healthy skepticismbut other times such resistance to widely reported facts is a sign of a dishonest unwillingness to accept something you don't want to hear
(DIR) Post #AqqL8yxYFDRJJ4ODMO by neuimneuland@mastodon.social
2025-02-06T12:40:45Z
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@meatlotion @GossiTheDog It looks like 'I've never really read anything from them before' isn't a viable metric in this context.
(DIR) Post #AqqN7pKakzAD3zk9dg by meatlotion@mas.erb.pw
2025-02-06T13:56:05Z
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@soop @GossiTheDog I just prefer to see information that is unbiased. If it's biased in either direction, then the story is written in a way to fit an desired outcome or agenda. I prefer just raw truth and facts. I don't think a persuit for truth is justification to be labelled a nazi or misinformed.
(DIR) Post #AqqOkPXIhCeSJFeMDo by meatlotion@mas.erb.pw
2025-02-06T14:14:16Z
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@soop @GossiTheDog why do you think seeking truth makes someone a half nazi?
(DIR) Post #AqqQKiHQaEUsp26FBA by meatlotion@mas.erb.pw
2025-02-06T14:21:34Z
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@shadowfals @martinlentink @the_moep @GossiTheDog I don't believe I said I rejected it because it was left leaning. What you've said here makes sense for the most part, I appreciate the breakdown.
(DIR) Post #AqqUd77xLA26uhhP3A by SudoCat@mastodon.gamedev.place
2025-02-06T15:19:41Z
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@meatlotion @soop @GossiTheDog huh weird.
(DIR) Post #AqqV4jNlDXupNUGCMy by meatlotion@mas.erb.pw
2025-02-06T15:24:38Z
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@SudoCat @soop @GossiTheDog 🤣🤣🤣
(DIR) Post #AqqWgMGvgliUf3ZSnw by eRileyKc@thepit.social
2025-02-06T15:43:09Z
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@meatlotion @GossiTheDog It helps to look at US politics from a non-US perspective. In the rest of the western world the Democrat party would be considered center right while the Republicans even before Trump would have been classed as right wing. This is not a new phenomena.
(DIR) Post #AqqgB090uMfYb8YTNg by progressist@bayerwald.social
2025-02-06T17:29:30Z
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@meatlotion 🤡@GossiTheDog
(DIR) Post #Aqqwmx3cQs49IK9L2u by filobus@sociale.network
2025-02-06T20:35:38Z
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@meatlotion @the_moep @GossiTheDog why not using dungeon and dragons scale for alignment? Lawful, neutral, chaotic, evil, good
(DIR) Post #AqqzDKOuSrez88oU5Y by oomu@pouet.chapril.org
2025-02-06T21:02:46Z
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@meatlotion @the_moep @GossiTheDog Wired is a very old magazine about geeky stuff, computing, politics with computing and whatever american entertainment stufflike mostly all american, it's from a foreigner point of view, right-wing and about to sell stuff and ads.You would be crazy to decide or not to read wired because you believe it has a "right" or "left" bias.You are americans.. of course you are crazy !HAHHAHAHA.
(DIR) Post #AqqzGVSbnkfmIf3ihk by oomu@pouet.chapril.org
2025-02-06T21:03:24Z
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@meatlotion @the_moep @GossiTheDog "you're saying, but the article in question is about the US, so a political scale based on the US is fitting in this case"AHAHAHHAHA !!!
(DIR) Post #AqqzUVxSkR6TtiAcIy by oomu@pouet.chapril.org
2025-02-06T21:05:57Z
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@meatlotion @martinlentink @the_moep @GossiTheDog " I read an article from the US, based on US content, I want to know what all the US-isms mean."you fucking don't care. All you want is a mirror and to give you whatever news nourish your fantasyWired is a magazine/website about computing stuff and their impact on politics and culturesand if the latest samsung/apple ziphon is good enough to pay whatever money you have...by being "left", I guess it's because they never wrote to kill people
(DIR) Post #AqsajSXnc8697D7Ev2 by astral_haze@aethy.com
2025-02-07T15:37:55Z
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@meatlotion @GossiTheDog objective facts has a strong left bias
(DIR) Post #AqtRkFcMSFqqsvVoQK by GossiTheDog@cyberplace.social
2025-02-06T17:06:15Z
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Treasury agrees to block additional DOGE staff from accessing sensitive payment systems https://therecord.media/treasury-agrees-block-doge-access
(DIR) Post #AqtRkGX53NDniq36pc by GossiTheDog@cyberplace.social
2025-02-07T06:20:14Z
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One of the members of DOGE, 25 year old Marko Elez, has resigned after journalists reported on his X posts. Examples: “I just want a eugenic immigration policy, is that too much to ask”, “I was a racist before it was cool”, “Normalize Indian hate”. He had tried to delete the posts. Elon tried threatening those reporting on it with legal action. Marko was one of the people given admin rights at the US Treasury. https://www.tpr.org/2025-02-06/member-of-elon-musks-doge-team-resigns-after-racist-posts-resurface
(DIR) Post #AqtRkHIwBRVE7GRKQS by GossiTheDog@cyberplace.social
2025-02-07T06:25:00Z
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Journalists probably want to look through this guys tweets, too. https://web.archive.org/web/*/https://twitter.com/Gavin_Kliger (press the button for all content, Mastodon breaks the link).
(DIR) Post #AqtRkIBAvmt6pTodxw by GossiTheDog@cyberplace.social
2025-02-07T06:47:26Z
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ProPublica is building a live list of those working for DOGE, since DOGE hasn’t actually disclosed this info and Elon keeps saying reporting it is illegal. Includes many InfoSec people. https://projects.propublica.org/elon-musk-doge-tracker/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
(DIR) Post #AqtRkIx23rAXDuCrYm by GossiTheDog@cyberplace.social
2025-02-07T18:31:31Z
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Elon has decided to bring back the DOGE staffer who tweeted about being a racist, wanted to normalize Indian hate, and said he wants a eugenics immigration policy.
(DIR) Post #AqtRkJveQTesFuZH2u by GossiTheDog@cyberplace.social
2025-02-07T18:39:08Z
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Elon Musk's guide to handling his staff being directly racist.
(DIR) Post #AqtRkLREoWWEwAM0v2 by GossiTheDog@cyberplace.social
2025-02-07T23:05:41Z
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The US Treasury Department has put out a cyber threat intelligence briefing saying "Continued access to any payment systems by DOGE members, even 'read only,' likely poses the single greatest insider threat risk the Bureau of the Fiscal Service has ever faced." https://www.wired.com/story/treasury-bfs-doge-insider-threat/#threatintel
(DIR) Post #AqvBKFCQB5Kj6jsMjY by GossiTheDog@cyberplace.social
2025-02-08T08:11:54Z
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One of the people in DOGE and given access to US government systems now is from the Telegram group The Com - known in cyber circles for swatting, doxxing, MFA abuse etc. https://krebsonsecurity.com/2025/02/teen-on-musks-doge-team-graduated-from-the-com/
(DIR) Post #AqvBKMjIBGmoSiJDRQ by GossiTheDog@cyberplace.social
2025-02-08T08:15:42Z
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Several of the people in DOGE are behind multiple cryptocurrency scams https://cryptadamus.substack.com/p/the-crypto-grifters-of-doge
(DIR) Post #AqvBKUHE7V5drzEuo4 by GossiTheDog@cyberplace.social
2025-02-08T08:40:44Z
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The tweets of the DOGE staff member who said he was a racist etc have been removed from archive.org after a takedown request.
(DIR) Post #AqvBKbkuJXzV44BDXc by GossiTheDog@cyberplace.social
2025-02-08T12:28:41Z
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The employee who wrote the CTI assessment around DOGE has been fired https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-02-08/treasury-warned-of-insider-threat-risk-from-musk-s-doge-access
(DIR) Post #AqvBKjFISxSWILS5Ng by GossiTheDog@cyberplace.social
2025-02-08T16:34:56Z
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A federal judge has ruled all DOGE Teenage Mutant Techbro Incels must stop accessing US Treasury data immediately, and destroy all copies they took. A case is running claiming Elon Musk broke federal law.The ruling backs up the CTI assessment by the now fired US Treasury threat intel analyst. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cjw4g2q62xqo
(DIR) Post #Aqx9qUuXFWvPHCl5Sy by get@clubcyberia.co
2025-02-09T20:30:17.657592Z
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oh no, not the heckin racism
(DIR) Post #AqxAAsJLxQEHdv5Ezw by Forestofenchantment@clubcyberia.co
2025-02-09T20:33:56.477952Z
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@GossiTheDog Anybody who fights back against jeet phobia needs to seriously take a trip to that shithole. On my trip to India in middle-school, I saw trash EVERYWHERE, a person on the side of the road that I thought was merely sleeping, but turned out to be DEAD, strangers CONSTANTLY making creepy remarks to one of the girls in my group, unbearable temperatures, and people with no manners or decency. NUKE MUMBAI.
(DIR) Post #Ar55H1Egk8JIYOgvTc by GossiTheDog@cyberplace.social
2025-02-10T10:01:02Z
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President Musk has tweeted that the judge is “corrupt” and called for him to be “impeached now” and the Vice President has said federal judges shouldn’t have legal power. https://apnews.com/article/trump-judiciary-musk-separation-of-powers-balance-checks-069c169ea1ddf6eea76f502d544c4c16
(DIR) Post #Ar55H2FmxWmhi6DJpY by GossiTheDog@cyberplace.social
2025-02-10T10:07:34Z
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If you start to see the US judiciary’s authority dismantled- they’re the final check on executive power - then you’re in the endgame to authoritarian rule. It’s not there yet. But one to watch. The party of law and order may be the party who successfully disband it, it looks like they’re flirting with trying.
(DIR) Post #Ar55H2mkyx9jMLdeDY by GossiTheDog@cyberplace.social
2025-02-12T22:12:35Z
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Remember Marko Elez, who wrote the "You could not pay me to marry outside of my ethnicity.", “Normalize Indian hate” etc tweets, got a job at DOGE, and got given “read only” access to US Treasury systems? It turns out he was given read/write access in error and it only noticed a day later. There’s a forensics operation going with his former laptop now (he resigned) to see what he did with the access as he was unsupervised. https://therecord.media/treasury-fully-aware-of-risks-posed-by-doge-access-to-database
(DIR) Post #Ar55H9z4DaA7gYS4sS by GossiTheDog@cyberplace.social
2025-02-12T22:15:41Z
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Also, a US lawmaker has filed to try to impeach the judge who stopped access.
(DIR) Post #Ar55HI8vsmo6zT84Mi by GossiTheDog@cyberplace.social
2025-02-13T15:03:18Z
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Just for the record, JD Vance, the "kid" you are referring to here was 25 years old when he tweeted things like "Normalise Indian hate" last month.Which you know.