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[–] 126 points 1 year ago (14 children)

The claim is that Starlink is compromised by Russia, and DOGE is sending all private data it extracts from agencies via Starlink, including sensitive Department of Energy data.

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  • [–] 48 points 1 year ago

    Not the whole claim.

    “The first thing, what Dan witnessed was that within 15 minutes of DOGE employees creating user accounts, i.e. Usernames and passwords, within 15 minutes of those accounts being created, somebody or something from Russia tried to log in with the right username and right passwords — that is to say — the right credentials. And that happened over 20 times.”

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  • [–] 36 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    Seems clear Musk is as compromised as Trump by Russia. The cold war never ended. America just stopped fighting.

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  • [–] 8 points 1 year ago

    Tbh, I'm not convinced either of them are compromised by Russia in that sense (though wouldn't be surprised, to be clear. We pretty much know Trump has assaulted and raped underage girls; I wouldn't be surprised if Musk has also). I think they're both just scared little boys who are trying to impress who they see as a big, strong man, in order to get the kind of fatherly approval that they never received from their actual fathers. They're both childishly impulsive and both try comedically hard to be seen as strong and capable, and then get emotional when they see that image being challenged.

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  • [–] 31 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Yes, just pasting from the article for reference:

    In addition, Bakaj told Tapper DOGE employees also made the mistake of using Elon Musks’ Starlink satellite connection to transfer data, which he believes is heavily compromised by Russian intelligence.

    “From our understanding, Russia has a direct pipeline through Starlink, which means everything going through Starlink is going to Russia,” Bakaj said, adding this potentially includes nuclear regulatory material.

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  • [–] 26 points 1 year ago

    I believe the allegation is that DOGE+Musk+Starlink=Russia? Kind of hard to tell because there's a lot in there. I don't think it's saying Russia compromised Starlink, but that these people are sharing data and access with Russia. Some details or logs would help.

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  • [–] 17 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    How much election information went through Starlink?

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