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Federal employees have filed a class action lawsuit seeking a temporary restraining order to disconnect a server allegedly installed illegally at the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) by associates of Elon Musk.

The lawsuit claims the server, connected without required privacy assessments, risks exposing government employees’ data.

The server is linked to the Trump administration’s plan to downsize the federal workforce.

If the motion is granted, the administration's "deferred resignation program" could be delayed.

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[–] ieatpwns@lemmy.world 68 points 1 day ago (3 children)

Yo bro just unplug that shit wtf?

[–] Darkassassin07@lemmy.ca 49 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (4 children)

You think they haven't tried that? If it was that simple it wouldn't have gotten plugged in in the first place.

It's monitored. You need to stop Musk and his lap dogs, who are backed by the DOJ and POTUS himself.

Everyone that's put up resistance has been walked out of the building and put on leave/fired.

[–] pivot_root@lemmy.world 33 points 1 day ago (2 children)

If you're going to get fired anyway, you might as well throw it off the roof. A bit more effective of a delay than the 30 seconds it would take for someone to plug the power cable back in.

[–] MrScottyTay@sh.itjust.works 25 points 23 hours ago (2 children)

What stops them from putting in a new server just a day later

[–] pivot_root@lemmy.world 16 points 20 hours ago* (last edited 20 hours ago)

Nothing. Destroying it just wastes more of their time comparatively.

And it probably destroys Elmo's precious data as a bonus. Something this ~~haphazard~~ efficiently installed wouldn't have a well-tested backup procedure, let alone a backup policy to begin with.

[–] breadsmasher@lemmy.world 11 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

Do PSUs in the USA have voltage switches? Just flick it on every server they install

[–] Zorsith@lemmy.blahaj.zone 18 points 22 hours ago* (last edited 22 hours ago) (1 children)

Not usually. Could rip off the onboard speaker and snip off all the fan headers though, that'll take a while to figure out.

Edit; or a syringe of liquid metal sprayed in all over the board through a vent. Not hard to sabotage a computer physically tbh

[–] x4740N@lemm.ee 1 points 12 hours ago
[–] futatorius@lemm.ee 15 points 21 hours ago (2 children)

See if they can walk 100 of them out at the same time.

[–] zqps@sh.itjust.works 6 points 15 hours ago

That's exactly what they're aiming to do.

The one thing that usually prevents this is the need to prevent government dysfunction and the collapse of whole institutions, and neither Trump nor Musk give a fuck. It works in their favor and their supporters are happy to justify it.

[–] Korhaka@sopuli.xyz 16 points 20 hours ago

Pretty much. At some point stuff like this relies on everyone accepting it. The man in the high castle is a pretty good example of it actually. John didn't grow up a nazi, doesn't genuinely believe in it, but goes along with it so he can continue to provide for his family.

In the end what difference does it make it you are just going along with it or if you believe it?

[–] Crikeste@lemm.ee 8 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

Damn, if only we had the 2nd amendment.

[–] treadful@lemmy.zip 5 points 23 hours ago (1 children)
[–] Crikeste@lemm.ee 7 points 23 hours ago

Alright, so long as you promise to go second! Also, can I borrow your gun? lmfao

[–] catloaf@lemm.ee 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)

"oops I must have bumped the power cable while working on the server next to it, my bad"

[–] Darkassassin07@lemmy.ca 5 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

5 min of downtime isn't all that big a deal.

I like your guys' enthusiasm, but we need real solutions.

[–] catloaf@lemm.ee 5 points 23 hours ago

"oops I wrote down the wrong rack location for destruction"?

[–] IamSparticles@lemmy.zip 13 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

What makes you think anyone that would be willing to do that has physical access? I don't have access to the server room at the office I work in, and we don't even keep any really important data there. It's mostly just networking equipment. Anything really sensitive is kept on cloud-based resources that are housed at an off-site facility that is only physically accessible by the company that owns and runs it.

[–] Rolder@reddthat.com 3 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

A sledgehammer can fix most problems

[–] roofTophopper@lemmy.world 1 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

I rather it be someone's face rather than a useful server

[–] Rolder@reddthat.com 1 points 11 hours ago

Caving elons face in with a sledgehammer does have a certain appeal yes

[–] Bytemeister@lemmy.world 2 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

At least set it's port in the switch to 10/100 half duplex.

[–] glitch1985@lemmy.world 5 points 22 hours ago (1 children)
[–] andrew_bidlaw@sh.itjust.works 2 points 16 hours ago

Hit Elon where it hurts!