23-Year-Old Elon Musk Rep Granted Energy Dept. IT Access Without Security Clearance

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• itsonlygeorge@reddthat.com ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  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.

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  • LifeInMultipleChoice@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

    Our enemies did dream it. They also planned it and executed it.

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• Vinny_93@lemmy.world ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  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.

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  • WhatAmLemmy@lemmy.world ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    A student who may very well be a malignant narcissist who doesn’t understand how anything works outside of his highly niche studies.

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• Agent641@lemmy.world ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  US Department of Energy is responsible for the transportation of all assembled nuclear weapons

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  • Saprophyte@lemmy.world ⁨31⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

    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.

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• FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  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.

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• Eddbopkins@lemmy.world ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  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.

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  • VieuxQueb@lemmy.ca ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    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 ?

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    • Cypher@lemmy.world ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Ageism right here. There is nothing preventing a 23 year old from holding being as trustworthy as a 50 year old.

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• jjagaimo@sh.itjust.works ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  How long before security in one of these departments physically stops these guys from waltzing in

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  • Gork@lemm.ee ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    No security clearance? Trying to access security national security government systems?

    That sounds like something that falls into the all enemies, foreign and domestic category.

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  • nightwatch_admin@feddit.nl ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    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.

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    • JasonDJ@lemmy.zip ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      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.

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  • snekerpimp@lemmy.world ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    When someone without a family that can be disappeared when the orange turd has a hissyfit is in the way?

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