Should be noted that the whistleblower’s disclosure was accompanied by a cover letter from his attorney, Andrew Bakaj of Whistleblower Aid, which said that, after he raised concerns internally about DOGE’s inroads into the agency, he received a physically taped threat on his door containing personal information and overhead photos of him walking his dog.
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You know you've hit on the truth when the powerful threaten to kill you.
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.
Department of Energy handles the nukes…
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.”
Seems clear Musk is as compromised as Trump by Russia. The cold war never ended. America just stopped fighting.
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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It wasn't compromised. Musk gave them access. It was planned, and it's absolutely treason
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.
How much election information went through Starlink?
Wouldn't surprise me if none of that shit was encrypted and it got manipulated on the fly. Not asking for any recounts was one of Kamala's biggest mistakes. It should really be standard practice to do at least a spot check.
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But the most shocking allegations came from Bakaj, who not only claimed that accounts based in Russia were using newly created DOGE usernames and passwords to access sensitive data, but also directly tied the effort to Elon Musk and his Starlink concerns, which has a relationship with the Kremlin.
“There are two data points that I wanna point out that should give everybody pause,” Bakaj said. “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.”
The second the Treasury was compromised it was 100% over. The government is basically compromised beyond repair. The entire digital infrastructure is infected it should be considered compromised.
Secure erase and full reinstall.
“The second data point, which is really critical, is that DOGE has also been using Starlink as a means to exfiltrate data,” he continued. “What that means is that, from our understanding, Russia has a direct pipeline of information through Starlink, which means that anything going through Starlink is going to Russia.”
And he was going to help Ukraine with giving them Starlink transceivers. Right.
Yes, this is happening. Meanwhile also this is happening: US office that counters foreign disinformation is being eliminated, say officials - a coincidence?
Aside:
“around ten gigabytes of data are, quote, the equivalent of a full stack of encyclopedias worth if someone printed these files as hard copy documents.”
On one hand I hate dumb comparisons like that, on the other hand it's really important for people to understand how little storage actual information, i.e. text/numbers, requires. The whole Bible is less than 5 megabytes - each and every picture you snap on your phone fits it twice! Google's daily dose of your personal user surveillance is probably just a few kilobytes, and is gone around the world and back while your video is still loading. In an internet dominated by high throughput video streaming people need to understand how little storage is required to get perfect data sets. 10GB just might fit all social security records of all US citizens (excl. media of course).
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Don’t say anything bad is “shocking” it’s expected at this point.
These dudes are speed running the collapse of the empire.
They think the people will be like oh it’s cool we have nothing anymore you can have all of our stuff
Qaddafi time
They think the people will be like oh it’s cool we have nothing anymore you can have all of our stuff
Some will. I swear, if donvict comes out with a nice little Heaven's Gate goodie bag for the base: with donnie-branded black Nikes, a self-castration kit, and a "special" cocktail to join donnie on the magical UFO in the sky, a non-zero amount of them would crash the servers buying it up, cut off their own nuts and pound that cocktail, just to "own the libs".
Not even being all that facetious here - we all saw how they behaved over Covid.
If we could just go ahead and skip to the Kool-Aid stage, that would be great
What I find funny is that one of the favourite memes of the maggots is that painting of the fall of the Roman empire, you know that weak men create weak times bullshit. Meanwhile they're clearly the ones making that meme come true.
It turns out it's actually greedy men that create hard times
And just remember, there is a starlink connection at the White House. We are so fucked.
Anyone with 2 connected brain cells understands that:
Trump = Russian asset = Russian infiltration into every aspect of U.S. gov't.
Only a matter of time before Russia and China take over and divvy up the U.S.
It'll be like Man in the High Castle but it's China and Russia dividing the Americas
I meant to watch that, guess no need now.
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By the time trump hands over the US there might not be anything left, considering how much has exploded in 4 months
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Treason.
I'm sure there will be a swift response, hahahahaha I can't even finish it. There will be nothing, just Americans rolling over and taking it cause daddy Cheeto said so..
America, again get your fucking house in order.
America, again get your fucking house in order.
It is genuinely upsetting to watch from the outside as a cold war baby who has visited the states a heap of times and is really fond of the place but this about sums it up.
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CNN interview: https://youtu.be/TsqgXfrSksI
Drone photos of him, taped to his door.
Threatening him directly. "Talk about this or else."
I love Dan. A true IT nerd hero! His explanations are plausible. And, his lawyer:
"There are others in other agencies who have witnessed things similar to this."
Let that sink in.
Wow, so shocking that something like this would happen under a Russian asset's watch.
There is nothing “shocking” about this.
We already fucking knew what was going on.
It needs a spotlight shined on it.
Muricans need to revolt or be fucked for the rest of their lives
Why not both?
Yeah I think the latter is a done deal at this point. Might as well do some deposing along the way.
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I so fucking hate being right about this
THIS is HARD PROOF! That the Department Overseeing Foreign Hostile Influence in America needs to be DISBANDED! And DONT worry about your Social Security getting GUTTED!
Every day more of their corrupt illegal treasonous crimes come out and nothing happens. There’s nothing “shocking” about it anymore.
The shitbag, Krasnov, allows it.
Omg, USA taking it all in da butt while doing nothing to resist
Just about the only people who are surprised are also people who don't object.
“Shocking”
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