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Jim Nauer Apr 19, 2025

For my friends who work in security, if you have not yet seen this: https://www.npr.org/2025/04/15/nx-s1-5355896/doge-nlrb-elon-musk-spacex-security

I am horrified. At worst, members of DOGE are actively promoting Russian espionage. At best, their security is so sloppy that they have been thoroughly penetrated by foreign intelligence services.

I cannot begin to state how bad this is for US national security.

I urge you to contact your senators and representative in Congress and ask them to shut down DOGE and open an investigation.

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Karl Auerbach Apr 18, 2025

@spaf Or they may be feeding the data to "friends" like Palintir where gov't records are being linked to create ever more precise dossiers on each of us.

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spaf Apr 18, 2025

@karlauerbach Or both

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slash Apr 18, 2025

@spaf I'm still at the stage where I'm hoping it's not true. Maybe the whistleblower has no evidence? Maybe it's just the word of one person? But, really, my brain keeps saying, "Didn't the press report that Big Balls (or one of the DOGGIES), had an uncle in the SVR?"

Well, at least we shut down Salt Typhoon, right? Wait? What?! Trump allowed it to continue after disbanding the experts who were only half-done?

I'm starting to detect a pattern....

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nak Apr 18, 2025

@spaf @thegibson https://resist.bot/petitions/PVJDVQ

Investigate DOGE cybersecurity violations, data breach at NLRB

Text SIGN PVJDVQ to 50409 to send this to your officials.

Resistbot

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Kethianna Apr 18, 2025

@spaf and this is the reason why I think us Europeans should stop sharing intel with the US for the time being and decouple even further.
We also need to quickly invest more in our intelligence agencies to make up for lost US intel.

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Internet Rando Apr 18, 2025

@spaf The immigrants, the measles guy? even the signalgate thing??

They're all distractions so people stop looking closely at ongoing #statecapture of our government by Russia.

It pisses me off immensely.

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flere-imsaho 🇺🇦Apr 19, 2025

@mousey @spaf i very much dislike the “distraction” approach; more than one thing happens at once; they may or not be related, some may come from the same root cause, some are effects of what happens when a bunch of opportunists seizes the moment to win their own little games, and their actions should not be dismissed, because the results of their actions may be just as disastrous, if not moreso, that something you think is the primary issue.

and ultimately, at the mitigation stage, getting the root cause right – if there's a single one – may be less important than stopping the whole system from unraveling.

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Internet Rando Apr 19, 2025

@mawhrin @spaf We fundamentally agree, and the damage being done by all the other actions also needs to stop..

But *of* all the damage being done, rsync'ing all our federal databases to a foreign adversary necessitates far more attention than it's getting.

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flere-imsaho 🇺🇦Apr 19, 2025

@mousey @spaf oh definitely.

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