Linked previously here (currently flagged and dead):
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42979187
Good thorough article on another wild development in this story. Deserves to be seen and read.
Teen on Musk's DOGE team graduated from 'The Com'
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Re: Teen on Musk's DOGE team graduated from 'The Com'
#12Linked previously here (currently flagged and dead): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42979187 Good thorough article on another wild development in this story. Deserves to be seen and read.
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Re: Teen on Musk's DOGE team graduated from 'The Com'
#13Linked previously here (currently flagged and dead): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42979187 Good thorough article on another wild development in this story. Deserves to be seen and read.
Have emailed dang to see if he'll unflag it.
Agreed, previously I was amenable to the "they're young and smart" (but I'd counter with "not wise") take, but no, some of these people are just actually evil.
Re: Teen on Musk's DOGE team graduated from 'The Com'
#14Linked previously here (currently flagged and dead): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42979187 Good thorough article on another wild development in this story. Deserves to be seen and read.
Have emailed dang to see if he'll unflag it. Agreed, previously I was amenable to the "they're young and smart" (but I'd counter with "not wise") take, but no, some of these people are just actually evil.
There was another submission of it here as well: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42981120
Also flagged dead.
Re: Teen on Musk's DOGE team graduated from 'The Com'
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Re: Teen on Musk's DOGE team graduated from 'The Com'
#16Good reporting here. Clarifies why the kid was fired for leaking documents - it was specifically for leaking internal corporate documents to a competitor.
The details about cybercrime discords involved in SWATting and DDOS attacks are fascinating.
The idea that anyone involved in this would be fast-tracked for a clearance is beyond the pale.
Re: Teen on Musk's DOGE team graduated from 'The Com'
#17Good reporting here. Clarifies why the kid was fired for leaking documents - it was specifically for leaking internal corporate documents to a competitor. The details about cybercrime discords involved in SWATting and DDOS attacks are fascinating. The idea that anyone involved in this would be fast-tracked for a clearance is beyond the pale.
He was in the com chat, which is a domestic tier one threat. There is no way any fast-tracking would solve this, unless monsieur big balls is an American spy, when in reality he's an overly caffeinated kid who has no idea how bad he's screwing up his, and while we're at it our country's, future.
Re: Teen on Musk's DOGE team graduated from 'The Com'
#18Good reporting here. Clarifies why the kid was fired for leaking documents - it was specifically for leaking internal corporate documents to a competitor. The details about cybercrime discords involved in SWATting and DDOS attacks are fascinating. The idea that anyone involved in this would be fast-tracked for a clearance is beyond the pale.
I personally think it says volumes about how those in the Trump-Musk group (Musk group?) see this. They see the task as infiltrating an adversary, requiring someone with the technical skills to do so but who is also disposable. This in their mind is not about improving anything in the government for citizens, or with regard to US interests, it's about gaining access to a hostile entity without regard to their interests or the long-term interests of the persons actually doing the activity. It doesn't matter if they compromise US security, because the US is a hostile adversary, and they don't want to deal with people who might hesitate because of families or a reputation to uphold. If this person gets in trouble for security breaches or racism or whatever, they just fire them and replace them with another 19 year old with nothing left to lose and/or plenty of time left to go another path later.
Re: Teen on Musk's DOGE team graduated from 'The Com'
#19Good reporting here. Clarifies why the kid was fired for leaking documents - it was specifically for leaking internal corporate documents to a competitor. The details about cybercrime discords involved in SWATting and DDOS attacks are fascinating. The idea that anyone involved in this would be fast-tracked for a clearance is beyond the pale.
I personally think it says volumes about how those in the Trump-Musk group (Musk group?) see this. They see the task as infiltrating an adversary, requiring someone with the technical skills to do so but who is also disposable. This in their mind is not about improving anything in the government for citizens, or with regard to US interests, it's about gaining access to a hostile entity without regard to their interes…
That’s generally true of political operatives.
The problem here is having such activities in his past makes him an exploitable by criminal organizations or foreign adversaries who would seek the sensitive information he now has access to.
Re: Teen on Musk's DOGE team graduated from 'The Com'
#20Say what you will about the cuts, you can't have people with zero clearance being given access to all of this data.