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Dennis Donovan

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2. Jonathan Ladd: Arguably the biggest national security breach in U.S. history.

Sun Feb 2, 2025, 09:49 AM

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Jonathan Ladd
‪@jonmladd.bsky.social‬
Arguably the biggest national security breach in U.S. history. Private employees downloading personnel data on every federal employee and tax and social security data on every American onto private unsecured servers. Needless to say, completely illegal and subject to major prison sentences.

‪Josh Marshall‬ ‪
@joshtpm.bsky.social‬
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3/ different pieces fit together. There also seems to be a significant amount of downloading government data onto private servers, etc, totally outside any cybersecurity regime. Additionally it’s unclear to the people inside whether the people doing these things actually work for the US govt…

February 2, 2025 at 7:47 AM

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Josh Marshall: my impression is that the Musk take over stuff is considerably worse than is being presented by press [View all] Dennis Donovan Sunday OP

This should be "Hair on Fire" warnings edhopper Sunday #1

Betting almost ALL federal employees are worried Attilatheblond Sunday #57

Jonathan Ladd: Arguably the biggest national security breach in U.S. history. Dennis Donovan Sunday #2

And nobody, NOBODY, can stop this? dhol82 Sunday #3

The people who can stop it are allowing it. Mr.WeRP Sunday #18

Courage is in short supply in many of our fellows. cachukis Sunday #23

over 300 million of our fellows stillcool Sunday #36

Where are the Patrick Henrys? cachukis Sunday #46

C-Span? stillcool Sunday #51

I keep asking those questions. yellow dahlia Sunday #69

Of course they can. OldBaldy1701E Sunday #76

$4 billion per day VMA131Marine Sunday #4

Agree: 2023 expenditures were $6.1 trillion or $16 billion a day. surfered Sunday #13

He believes algorithms are easier to control than humans. cachukis Sunday #5

His game is information. It's easier to control humans WITH algorithms underpants Sunday #7

Control what they think and you'll control what they do. Kid Berwyn Sunday #37

I hope Yoshimi's been taking their vitamins underpants Sunday #44

Little needs countermeasures The Madcap Sunday #15

That's what we have. We are on the outside of cachukis Sunday #27

Have your chum tell the Mastodons that Dave says Sunday #24

Are you familiar with chum salmon? cachukis Sunday #25

You're right that there is a generation (maybe two) that see this as normal. LisaM Sunday #52

I have a full set of silver with all the special pieces cachukis Sunday #55

The thing about the beautiful dishes floors me. LisaM Sunday #61

The kids probably remember having to clean the silverware! dickthegrouch Sunday #82

Great post. KPN Sunday #74

...claiming they've already found like $4B in "savings" a day.... Girard442 Sunday #6

He's not going to tell us what they are either Diraven Sunday #14

Sounds like a plan to stop sending Bettie Sunday #21

This terrifies me. NH Ethylene Sunday #83

I always log into Blue Sky first thing. Autumn Sunday #8

Kick dalton99a Sunday #9

Musk misused his student visa when he came to the US Wicked Blue Sunday #10

He actually is a citizen Diraven Sunday #12

According to news reports, Musk came on a student visa, but dropped out of college . surfered Sunday #17

Trump has $250,000,000 reasons not to look into it. MLWR Sunday #35

Nationalize his assets, denaturalize him, & send him to gitmo for crimes against humanity SheltieLover Sunday #32

Deport Musk and his spawn Seinan Sensei Sunday #85

Imagine payments being cut off, and even clawed back. A tithe of sorts. Chargebacks. bucolic_frolic Sunday #11

This is beyond frightening in its implications. Borogove Sunday #16

Turning on and off payments is first class authoritarian shit Arazi Sunday #19

Kick AKwannabe Sunday #20

My concern is that a huge amount of US government data is now on unsecured computers. patphil Sunday #22

Exactly, should be a huge cybersecurity concern... HipChick Sunday #29

Identity theft on steroids Bayard Sunday #45

Agreed. yellow dahlia Sunday #70

Absolutely no doubt it's much worse. SheltieLover Sunday #26

Meh, another doom and gloom thread, gab13by13 Sunday #28

Must have been what Trump meant when he said: "He (Musk) knows those computers better than anybody. sop Sunday #31

Have you seen the numbersarewrong2024 report? yellow dahlia Sunday #71

We've all been doxxed. The only people in America who haven't been doxxed are... unblock Sunday #30

We are very concerned. pandr32 Sunday #33

Where are our democratic representatives? Beaverhausen Sunday #34

They should be out doing town halls across the country gab13by13 Sunday #38

I guess that depends on who you have stillcool Sunday #39

Here. Call yours and find out. ancianita Sunday #41

My questions also. yellow dahlia Sunday #72

No duh, Josh. It's why TPM exists in the first place. ancianita Sunday #40

Musk has no official government job title. He's committing crimes. dchill Sunday #42

What I learned in the Army. Grins Sunday #43

How are they being allowed into buildings? quakerboy Sunday #47

The new Treasury Secretary has approved this so he's letting them in Arazi Sunday #75

Interesting. And same over at opm? quakerboy Sunday #77

Yes, the acting head of OPM is similarly allowing Musk and Co to pillage Arazi Sunday #79

With so much shit to be wary, alarmed and outraged about -- this is right up there in the top echelon, liberalla Sunday #48

Downloaded onto a private server? Surely the GOP is making plans right now tanyev Sunday #49

My opinion on DENVERPOPS Sunday #50

Very astute observation. liberalla Sunday #56

Yea, DENVERPOPS Sunday #65

No shit. By the time Dems or anyone else finds out what they're doing, IT WILL BE TOO LATE. n/t CousinIT Sunday #53

How long before one of Thiel or Musk's goons leak this data or sell it CousinIT Sunday #54

Your last point was one of my thoughts too Meowmee Sunday #59

So they could "go after" anyone who is a part of the "resistance"...of course. yellow dahlia Sunday #73

Who will do something and arrest him/ them? Meowmee Sunday #58

"DOGE team... deciding which parts aren't necessary." Beartracks Sunday #60

Un-elected. Not a government employee. Barely a U.S, Citizen. and like Drumpf said to RFK Jr. "Go wild." Kinda like 1/6 Evolve Dammit Sunday #62

I recently retired from Civilian DoD slightlv Sunday #63

God damnit, EVERYTHING about Trumpism is worse than presented by the press Hitorque Sunday #64

Muskrat brought the presidency from the 🍊💩🤡 he is charge and the 🍊💩🤡 sold our country for billions of money kimbutgar Sunday #66

They all need to be drmeow Sunday #67

. yellow dahlia Sunday #68

Trump plans to challenge Impoundments mchill Sunday #78

The Congressional Republicans are making the exact same mistake that was made in Germany in the 1930's cstanleytech Sunday #80

It's the drumpf takeover, not the Musk takeover JoseBalow Sunday #81

And Putin. BadgerMom Sunday #84