Summary

Elon Musk’s DOGE website mistakenly published classified intelligence data, including personnel and budget details for the National Reconnaissance Office.

The breach sent Defense Department officials scrambling, as the NRO’s headcount and budget are typically classified. Intelligence aides confirmed the leak is problematic under current security standards.

Concerns have also been raised about DOGE’s inexperienced staff. The White House has not commented, and the site was later hacked.

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    " problematic under current security standards."

    Is there an understatement of the year award.

    It’s slightly troublesome that not only were a bunch of 20ish year olds, at least one in his past was fired for posting company secrets on discord… not only are able to walk into any government agency and get classified information… but are also, notably posting them to the public. (and that’s just what we see them doing publicly… lord knows if anything is traveling through any hidden channels etc…

    That’s “problematic” in the way 9/11 was a “troubling event”.

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    The website posting classified info, not being secure, and hiring a 19 year old who leaked classified data at a previous job. Hmm, almost seems like Elon is actively undermining the US government and inviting various groups and countries to steal our data.

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      Other countries having our data is the least of our worries. I’m ready for China to become our new overlords if that’s the only other option.

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        That’s the next step. We’re seeing the sun set on the American Empire and I’m afraid it’s going to take another World War for the sun to rise on the next Empire.

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          I think most Americans could use a reeducation camp. Our society didn’t collectively kill Elon after he did a Nazi salute. We need some reeducation on how to kill Nazis.

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    ARREST MUSK

    How is this confusing?

    Arrest his conspirators. Separate them. Get them to give up their international contact.

    No one is as colossally stupid as these kids are. Unemployment is the least they need to worry about.

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      It’s not confusing at all, many of us agree. But who enforces that? The Justice Dept, led by Trump’s other stooge Pam Bondi.

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          The world is watching too. It’s easy for me to shout towards the US “do something!” but the rich have got people so economically fucked they’d have to choose between fighting this good fight, or feeding their families.

          When they can’t even feed their families, the choice will be much easier to make.

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            That’s honestly what it’s going to take, is a collapse like the French experienced in 1789. It’s not going to be pretty. We have tanks, machine guns, bombs, all kinds of chemical weapons (tear gas is a chemical weapon), etc.

            They’re systematically dismantling everything, including farming and social programs created to help feed poor people. What do they think is going to happen when people can’t eat? There’s a reason Rome did bread and circuses. Feed the masses, entertain them somewhat and they stay relatively complacent. They’re not doing that here.

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        the bleach blond barbie, that dropped the lawsuit against trump university, after donald donated 25k to her campaign.

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      Over half the country voted for this. Over half the country thinks he’s doing Lord’s work and is finally making America great again. He’s not getting arrested unless he does something way, way worse than this

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        Less than 2/3 of the country voted and less than half of them voted for Trump. Don’t give folks a mandate/credit they didn’t earn.

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          You’re totally right. I shouldve said that the majority of voters voted for this circus and from what I can tell still very much support it.

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            He still came out under 50% of the popular vote. It was close, but they didn’t win a majority of voters.

            But, yes. Lots of folks cheering for things getting worse.

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          Did it ever occur to you to take some goddamn responsibility for what your country is inflicting on the world instead of making excuses? Especially when that excuse is “Hey, most of us just sat on our asses instead of doing the bare minimum to keep a blatant fascist out of power! Don’t blame us!”

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            Oh yeah that’ll surely fix everything, for all the people that didn’t want Trump in office to take responsibility for Trump getting into office.

            Did it ever occur to you that maybe instead of berating us from your ivory tower (which I’m inferring from your comment is an ocean away), that maybe extending a helping hand would be more productive?

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              I’m not an ocean away. I’m in a country that your glorious leader has repeatedly threatened to annex. And I’m extending a helping hand by boycotting your products in the hopes that your economy collapses. I hope to do more but while the people who voted for Trump (or at least didn’t vote against him) are your friends and neighbours that you have plenty of opportunities to talk to and influence I have to do what I can from a distance.

              Thanks for the “ivory tower” comment, though. It’s nice to know what you think of the people who have to suffer for your country’s actions while having no means to directly influence them (unlike yourself.)

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                You absolutely sit in an ivory tower when you make comments like that though. You get to absolve yourself of the responsibility you’re trying to lay at the feet of Americans who are also suffering (and who, I might remind you, the majority of which did not want Trump in office) merely because you have the privilege of living somewhere else.

                I can’t control that I was born here, I can’t control that I can’t leave here, and I can’t control that the system is so fucked that I’m basically powerless to change it. Don’t act like you’re better than me because you were lucky enough to be born into (or privileged enough to move into) a better country with a better system. If you do, I have every right to say you sit in an ivory tower.

                The main point though is that this stupid blame game helps no one and just further divides the people getting fucked. Climb on down from your ivory tower and try a word of encouragement instead, or if that’s too much for you, just don’t say anything. Whatever you do though, please stop driving the wedge further between the people getting fucked, because that’s exactly what the assholes in power want.

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                  Don’t worry. This person lives in a country that votes at similar levels to the one they’re criticizing. This is a person who probably did nothing about everything their own country and the one they’re criticizing has done before. But now that it feels like it matters to them, it’s time to blame other folks and lash out.

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            Did it ever occur to you that framing and context matters to people? That some are more motivated to push back and resist when they see there are more people on their side than not? That the minority that elected the blatant fascist are keenly invested in promoting the idea that they have a mandate to do the things they’re doing? That the protests, lawsuits, and acts of resistance are spurred by recognizing this isn’t what the majority want? Don’t confuse speaking the truth with making excuses.

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        Honestly, I don’t believe he won. There are computer scientists who are saying that it was 100% rigged. If you think about it for more than 2 seconds it’s easy to see that Trump shouldn’t be president. I’ll die on this hill.

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          theres evidence many counties, machines were compromised, not surprised how hard they cried about it in 2020, too.

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          I honestly think that kamala just didn’t resonate with many americans

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            her campaign underestimated the mysogyny and racism of latinos, and conservative black men, i used to follow some asian youtubers who were originally willing listening to the other side, but are still right wing, after covid hit they went all in with trump and conspiracies, actually most of it was due to female employee(and past ones) they mistreated, she wasnt playing ball with the owners so they bullied the sht out of her years and not toe-ing the line of thier rants. both are pretty socially conservative,as are asian voters. dint make her look better hanging out with cheney.

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              Nah it’s just that she is pretty unlikeable. There are tons of women on the right that the right wing love

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    WHY DO THEY HAVE CLASSIFIED DATA?

    That’s not something you just give access to because someone says they want it and they’re high up in the command structure.

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      Because the people who objected to them not having the clearance to view the data were put on leave.

      [Musk’s] comments come after the administration placed two top security chiefs at USAID on leave after they refused to turn over classified material in restricted areas to Musk’s government-inspection teams, a current and a former U.S. official told The Associated Press on Sunday

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        Jesus fucking Christ.

        Does anybody else feel like we’re all nearing a collective psychotic break? Like, am I crazy, or is everything suddenly fucking crazy?

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      These systems are typically air-gapped so to be able to acquire it is a particularly bad fuck-up.

      That being said information from unclassed systems can become classified when put in a single place/file for easy consumption.

      Either way someone really, REALLY fucked up here.

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        Either way someone really, REALLY fucked up here.

        I wouldn’t say it’s someone as much as it’s something.

        Neither of the Felonius Fuckheads have ever faced actual consequences for their actions. The entire judicial system has fucked up by teaching them that they’re above the systems of checks and balances designed to hold them accountable and prevent them from making unilateral changes to fundamental aspects of the government operates.

        And so, Elon just casually walked in wherever he pleased, caused chaos and disruption with his cronies, and walked out leaving behind servers exfiltrating anything they could get their hands on.

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    Lol “intelligence officials” can eat my whole asshole. They let the monkeys in without even a background check; they’ve earned their goddamn circus.

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      There is a reason he suddenly started bringing his little human shield with him everywhere. Suddenly he has a good relationship with his kid right after Trump got shot. I’m sure just a coincidence.

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        human shield

        hes using him right around the time MR luigi dispatched the ceo. and yes the child is a human shield, i think hes the one with the wierd name? X- or whatever. he has another one call tau techno mechanius

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    Of course. Trump was keeping classified documents in his bathroom after his first term and the American people rewarded him with a second. This is what Americans want.

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    Worried, concerned, alarmed. Shut the fuck up if you aren’t going to take action now, and tell us what those actions are. We know they are actively destroying what they can while making bank. These words mean nothing if you say them and never take action. Maybe in a different time they would carry weight, but not today.

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    You know, when it’s a regular citizen doing this prosecutors will have a warrant for arrest signed, even if it has to be done in the middle of the night on a weekend, and have a strike team arrest and detain those responsible within literal (really, literal) hours. Why does this not happen NOW?? (I know the answer.)

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      Well you see, legally, it’s complicated.

      The only people who can go after him…work for Trump.

      The people who can go after Trump are Congress. A Congress that is controlled by the party that Trump is the head of, and that head is attached directly to its ass, with absolutely no spine in between. A truly majestic creature, really.

      The people who can stop him on the meantime are the courts. Which he packed with loyalists. Not just the supreme court but also many lower federal courts as well.

      That’s thanks to the duodenum of the congress-beast, Mitch McConnel, who held up so many federal judge appointments during Obama’s last years in office because it was “too close to an election”. But then shoved in a new judge when RBG died two months before the 2020 election before she was even cold.

      This is what most sane countries would call a “constitutional crisis”.

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    Develop heart attack gun and extensive ways to fabricate blackmail. Only use it against peaceful socialists like MLK.

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      Well yeah, because peaceful socialists don’t generally go around developing heart attack guns, their enemies do.

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    Maybe now the intelligence community will do their thing and none of us will have to worry about these dipshits anymore.

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      Can we start a rumor that Musk wants to shut down Boeing? He won’t last a month.

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        Lockheed Martin. Half the US military runs on their products. They’re so integrated that the military basically can’t afford to change contractors for any of it.

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              A Boeing whistleblower the day before he finally got his big day in court (something he worked towards for years) “committed suicide” in his car the day before he was going to testify.

              Forget the Epstein conspiracy shit, guys going to prison for sex stuff involving minors kill themselves all the time since they know they’re going to have a bad time in prison. An engineer trying to expose his former employer for their unsafe practices the day before he’s going to finally get what he wanted? Wayyyyyy more suspicious than the Epstein stuff.

              There was another Boeing whistleblower that also “committed suicide”.

              But sure, maybe it’s all a weird coincidence that everyone that tries to blow the whistle on Boeing turns up dead before they can testify.

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                I probably should have been more clear what I was doubting, I don’t doubt for a second Boeing would pull this shit, I just doubt they’ve done it more than Lockheed. Lockheed has their fingers in way more pies.

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      While we can hope for that, you gotta remember, the intelligence agencies are inherently pro-authoritarian, and anti-egalitarian (probably spelled wrong).

      The USSR wasn’t the actual enemy for the last century. Communism was the enemy. The entire defense industry was built up to fight the idea of communism. It just helped that the USSR called themselves communists.

      I don’t think for a second that any really meaningful classified information can be leaked without immediate consequences. And that is usually troop movements or locations.

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    So this means that every single bit of data they’ve already collected has been openly transmitted to Russia and our other geopolitical adversaries. Pack it up folks, we’re cooked