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Good reporting here. Clarifies why the kid was fired for leaking documents - it was specifically for leaking internal corporate documents to a competitor. The
by relaxing 2y ago
Good 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.
- ketlag 2y agoHe 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.
- derbOac 2y agoI 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.
- relaxing 2y agoThat’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.
- ttyprintk 2y agoSecond point is fair. First point is not even true of the Watergate burglars. What makes crime indistinguishable from politics here is the recent ruling on presidential immunity.
- relaxing 2y agoI’ve lost track of the argument here. I was actually thinking of Hunt and Liddy, who did nothing of worth after their infamy. I don’t think the actual burglars did either?
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- ty6853 2y agoThe money you paid for social security was lost pretty much the moment you paid it. There is little left to lose, it's a redistribution scheme rather than a savings scheme.
- catlifeonmars 2y agoFWIW I think we need both? Agree that the latter is severely lacking in the US. And maybe in some distant future post-scarcity society we would not have a need for a savings scheme.
- cvalka 2y agoAny pension scheme is a redistribution scheme.
- amazingamazing 2y agowhy?
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- AnimalMuppet 2y ago> They see the task as infiltrating an adversary, requiring someone with the technical skills to do so but who is also disposable. People who have had access to that kind of data, and who have those kinds of skills, you'd better be careful about how you dispose of them. (Consider the term "blowback".)
- KPGv2 2y agocome on, your average 1337 h4x0r does not have a criminal syndicate ready to exact revenge for their fallen comrade
- ttyprintk 2y agoSeems more likely that this can be completely subdued when the outcome of swatting is not a nuisance, but a conveniently extra-judicial raid by armed militia.
- Applejinx 2y agoOr indeed that they are a hostile adversary to the US who have achieved some successes adversarial to the US. I feel like from the perspective of the US, if we frame this conflict/battle for control of US services and computer systems, we needn't say 'the US is a hostile adversary'. It's fair to frame it as 'the US is the US, and the people seizing control of the systems against the interests of the US are hostile adversaries of the US'. The specifics of who they're working for, how, why etc. can still be up for speculation or further discovery, but we needn't frame it as 'perhaps the US is actually the enemy and Musk's people are actually the liberators'.
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- drawkward 2y agoDOGE is the deep state: unelected, unaccountable, unconstitutional. President Trusk does not care at all about anything but enriching and empowering himself.
- lmm 2y ago> DOGE is the deep state: unelected, unaccountable, unconstitutional They're carrying out the platform the president was elected on, and he'll very much be accountable for the results. The very fact that they're in the news and being talked about is the opposite of the deep state.
- drawkward 2y agoThey do not have the right to do the things they are doing, in the way it is being done. You are normalizing the abnormal.
- lightbendover 2y agoYou do not know with any degree of certainty what their motivations are. In fact, the utter disdain they demonstrate for certain US citizens dismantles your entire claim.
- lexandstuff 2y agoTo the absolute contrary. They do it because of the contempt they have for the average US citizen. These people now in power believe their interests come first because, in their minds, they are inherently superior to most people by birthright.
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- HumblyTossed 2y ago> I personally think it says volumes about how those in the Trump-Musk group (Musk group?) see this. It's more the Musk, Thiel, Vance Group. Trump is simply a tool.
- DFHippie 2y agoHe wields the sharpie. He's basically a notary public.
- marcusverus 2y ago> 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.. This is what actual schizophrenia looks like.
- ModernMech 2y agoSeriously yes. Having lived with someone who is schizoaffective, I recognize what is happening to America as an acute manic episode with psychosis and hallucinations.
- Kinrany 2y agoThis assumes that leaking is a compulsive behavior. The federal government has stronger incentives to offer for not leaking information. Getting fired is nothing.
- anabab 2y agoOn the other hand there might exist a deal where everyone involved is guaranteed a pardon as an incentive to sow as much chaos as possible.
- joe_the_user 2y agoThe idea that the federal government is entity able to look after it's own interests has taken quite a hit in my mind with recent events.
- adamrezich 2y agoIt's so strange to see this become a Partisan Issue so quickly and easily, when just a few short years ago everyone on the Internet cheered on Ron Paul's cries to Audit The Fed. (Yes, I know, “the Fed” means the Federal Reserve, and not the federal government—but that's clearly in the cards, too.) And it's not as though the pre-smartphone Internet was majority Republican, of course—quite the opposite, if anything!
- matwood 2y agoAn audit means transparency and accountability, neither of which we have here.
- adamrezich 2y agoOne must ask oneself if one's views on the matter would be the same if the exact same actions were done by one's preferred political party, and reported upon favorably instead of unfavorably.
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