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A vulnerability in the new OPM email server allowed anyone to send mass messages to federal employees, exposing poor cybersecurity.

Over 13,000 NOAA staff received spam and vulgar messages, including crude jokes about Trump and bizarre newsletters, causing widespread outrage.

The breach resulted from an overhaul led by Elon Musk that installed underqualified personnel and an insecure in-house system, sparking a class-action lawsuit for cybersecurity failures.

The unsecured system also inadvertently revealed ties to Project 2025 and a plan to gather government employee data as Trump’s loyalists reshape federal operations.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 hour ago (2 children)

How are Republican voters reconciling any of this? Or has Faux News spun this as something Obama's responsible for?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 19 minutes ago

Seriously, everyone needs to go check out FoxNews.com because it is insane that anyone could rely on them for their news. I checked out this morning and had to scroll WAY DOWN to find any mention of tariffs, and even then, it was praising trump for keeping a campaign promise.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 15 minutes ago

I've been off Reddit for a while but I'd be lying if I didn't just go look at /r/conservative to see.
"I pray Trump knows what he is doing, because if this doesn't work and just results in higher prices and nothing the average person can identify as a positive, then people will sour on Trump."
"Im really worried this is going to bite us hard causing prices to skyrocket."
"I’m in the construction industry and would be lying if I said I wasn’t a little nervous for this rollercoaster." In general, some longer comments are basically saying tariffs will work to bring home manufacturing. The problem with this is we would need manufacturing of most of these things IN PLACE NOW to be ready to do that. We're not since it's a surprise to both U.S. citizens and Canada.
Many other posts are being deleted -- most I've ever seen, but again it's been a while since I've looked at Reddit.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 hour ago (2 children)

There's gotta be a way to make it stop

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 minutes ago

Guillotines

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 hour ago (2 children)

I've heard of a treatment. The guy who killed Hitler did it. It's a high speed lead treatment. Very effective

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 minutes ago

Problem is, we can't just skip to that part of the story without being accused of being just like the J6 crowd. I hate what is happening, and don't want to say there's nothing that can be done, but unfortunately there's a bunch of people who aren't gonna wake up and get it until it hurts them personally.

For now, probably the best thing we can do is stand up for those in their crosshairs and support them however we can, while we wait for a bunch of the anti-woke crowd to wake up to the fact that they voted for the leopard that's eating their face. Now, there should definitely be a limit on how long we wait for them to wake up, but at the speed this leopard is going? I doubt anyone will be unscathed by Spring.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 30 minutes ago

They won't listen to that. At this point they are pro-Hitler.

They should employ the method Hitler used in the end! It was super effective!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

This is glorious. The mess is amazing, but the money that will be saved after it's all done will be worth it.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 hour ago

Given the lawsuits this is opening up, I wonder if you're joking.

[–] [email protected] 156 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 39 points 12 hours ago* (last edited 12 hours ago) (2 children)

They're firing Inspector Generals? Damn, thats like, expediting the destruction of the federal government.

Edit: for those who don't know, IGs are independent officials within fed and state agencies that conduct investigations, audits or inspections to employees or agencies.

[–] [email protected] 35 points 10 hours ago* (last edited 10 hours ago) (2 children)

He illegally fired 17 of them, including one investigating Neuralink, (one of Musk's companies).

[–] [email protected] 9 points 7 hours ago

He's up to over 30 now.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 9 hours ago

including one investigating Neuralink

And that's not a coincidence.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 10 hours ago* (last edited 10 hours ago) (3 children)

How are people just so unaware of what's happening in their own government?

Like you're on a site like this, and you know what Inspector Generals do, but you're not aware that he fired over a dozen of them days into his term? How??

There's a whole lot of, "I don't care about or pay attention to politics because nothing really changes for me" morons about to have a rude awakening.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 hour ago

How? Felonious 47 is going after the news media making sure nothing critical gets published. Due to the cowardice of our mainstream media, we no longer have a free press.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 9 hours ago (2 children)

Our investigative media has been dead or bought out for a long time, and despite project 2025 being published, it's all happening really quickly. I have a difficult time believing this isn't the downfall of America. And we almost reached 250.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 hour ago

At this point I'm hoping America is annexed by Canada or something. It's too dangerous to leave this country to its own devices, we are begging for invaders to come liberate us.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 hours ago

The upside is that often times throughout history massive actions like what is happening right now are restricted to the start or end of empires. Turns out fucking with how a state functions is a great way for it to collapse, the death of empires is often times slow until its not.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 hours ago

You got too much time in your hands mijo.

[–] [email protected] 220 points 1 day ago (3 children)

They can't even do a coup without fucking half of it up.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 10 hours ago

How have they fucked up? No one has stopped them

[–] [email protected] 26 points 18 hours ago* (last edited 18 hours ago) (2 children)

Because they don't have to worry about fuck ups. Americans are gonna do jack shit about it. Otherwise something would have already been done.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 hour ago

Sadly Ayn Rand was right when she said...

"The question isn't how can I do such things, but who is going to stop me?"

Suda 51 was right, there really are No More Heroes.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 11 hours ago* (last edited 11 hours ago) (3 children)

Not true. The Democrats will form a committee to discuss language to be placed in a letter to the administration, they may even call a news conference to state that they are disappointed in what is happening and if it continues they may have to do more drastic measures like actually sending the letter that the committee put together.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 hour ago

At this point I'll be geniunely surprised to learn that Democrats with survival instincts exist.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 hours ago

We need to return to the days when dueling on the senate floor was acceptable.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 11 hours ago

Not true. The Democrats will form a committee to discuss language to be placed in a letter to the administration, they may even call a news conference to state that they are disappointed in what is happening and if it continues they may have to do more drastic measures like actually sending the letter that the committee put together.

Wait, it gets better! The Democrats are going to form a committee to discuss language for the letter, which is sure to be a 500-page document that will get printed out on recycled paper and ceremoniously burned in a symbolic gesture of disappointment. And after weeks of debate, they'll finally agree on a single sentence that reads, 'We are disappointed in the administration's lack of action.' Wow, that'll definitely send shockwaves through Washington!

But wait, there's more! They'll then call an emergency press conference to declare their outrage, where they'll all stand in front of a teleprompter and read from their carefully crafted statement. And to really drive the point home, they might even release a 3-minute video montage of footage from the committee meeting, set to a dramatic score, just to make sure everyone knows how "serious" they are.

And if that's not enough, they'll then proceed to actually send the letter – but only after making it clear that they're only doing so because they have to, and not because they actually expect anything to change. And when the administration inevitably ignores them or responds with a half-hearted gesture of tokenism, they'll be like, 'See, we told you so! We sent our letter and... oh wait, nothing happened.' It's going to be hilarious!

[–] [email protected] 115 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (12 children)

That's the frightening part .... either they are idiots that are completely messing everything up including their own plans ... or they are following a well orchestrated plan of disruption and chaos to gain control of everything and everyone

Either way, they are undoing a lot of things that will take years or decades to bring back

"From barbarism to civilization requires a century; from civilization to barbarism needs but a day."

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 hours ago

I’ve always heard it as “democracy is only six missed meals away from anarchy.”

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[–] [email protected] 83 points 1 day ago

And true to form, our boy Klip exposed the malignant incompetence while taking the opportunity to advertise his substack 😄

[–] [email protected] 119 points 1 day ago (27 children)

The breach resulted from an overhaul led by Elon Musk that installed underqualified personnel and an insecure in-house system, sparking a class-action lawsuit for cybersecurity failures.

And y’all let him have access to government.

The world will burn from climate and war because of American stupidity.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 hour ago

Trump won by 1.5% of the vote. And that amount was basically the number of people the Republicans managed to disenfranchise during this election.

WE did nothing. The vast majority of Americans want this madness to end but no one with any sort of power to do anything is standing up to the orange bully.

For all the guns we own, this country has very few Luigis who understand this is a class war. So what else are the people who didn’t vote for the asshole in the oval supposed to do about it?

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