Two of Musk's junior-grade government destroyers are students here in the Hub

If either of these folks were in one of my classes I'd change my grading rubric to:

25% problem sets
25% final
50% not participating in a coup

I reject the premise that Musk is a genius.

Magoo iz confoosed. Magoo. 🥸

Elon's cultivation of his intern entourage reminds me of Jack Teixeira and his collection of Discord denizens.

I guess when people your own age see you as cringe the answer is to find and groom a group of impressionable youth that aren't sophisticated enough to realize the damage you are doing and that you are jeopardizing their futures.

At Northeastern you can be roughed up by the cops for exercising your free speech rights to protest actions in Gaza. Destroying our government at the behest of coke ridden South Africans, ah, do what you want.

Pretty Fucked Up World We Live In.

First they figure out a way to steal mp3s, now they hack the whole federal government. Don't mess with a Husky!

There is not nearly enough reporting on this stuff.

Those fuckheads are destroying our past and future. It's all yuks for them. They'll never meet any of the people they forced out of a job and have no concept as to why having a functioning government is in their own best interests and in the interests of all Americans.

They just assume their good and healthy life is entirely due to the hard work of their parents, completely blind to all the things government did silently for generations.

Hopefully NEU makes them take a few history classes and the depths of their ignorance begins to dawn on them. (No, that won't happen.)

We're getting taken down by the effing Baker Street Irregulars!!!???

From Heather Cox Richardson:

Billionaire Elon Musk’s team yesterday took control of the Treasury’s payment system, thus essentially gaining access to the checkbook with which the United States handles about $6 trillion annually and to all the financial information of Americans and American businesses with it. Apparently, it did not stop there.

Today Ellen Knickmeyer of the Associated Press reported that yesterday two top security officials from the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) tried to stop people associated with Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency, or DOGE, from accessing classified information they did not have security clearance to see. The Trump administration put the officials on leave, and the DOGE team gained access to the information.

Vittoria Elliott of Wired has identified those associated with Musk’s takeover as six “engineers who are barely out of—and in at least one case, purportedly still in—college.” They are connected either to Musk or to his long-time associate Peter Thiel, who backed J.D. Vance’s Senate run eighteen months before he became Trump’s vice presidential running mate. Their names are Akash Bobba, Edward Coristine, Luke Farritor, Gautier Cole Killian, Gavin Kliger, and Ethan Shaotran, and they have little to no experience in government.

Public policy expert Dan Moynihan told reporter Elliott that the fact these people “are not really public officials” makes it hard for Congress to intervene. “So this feels like a hostile takeover of the machinery of governments by the richest man in the world,” he said. Law professor Nick Bednar noted that “it is very unlikely” that the engineers “have the expertise to understand either the law or the administration needs that surround these agencies.”

After Musk’s team breached the USAID computers, cybersecurity specialist Matthew Garrett posted: “Random computers being plugged into federal networks is obviously terrifying in terms of what data they're deliberately accessing, but it's also terrifying because it implies controls are being disabled—unmanaged systems should never have access to this data. Who else has access to those systems?”

As a director level manager, who specializes in cyber security... this shit is scary.

As many know I am also a gay man, so I should be upset at all the trans stuff.. and yes in a way I am. But its this shit that scares me to death. Once our gov't is gone, rights for anyone will be gone. We should try to save the gov't first so we can save ourselves next.

Anyways but yeah.. Musk and his minions forced (or be fired) people to get access to most systems in the gov't. Then they put an illegal server there.. for reasons people do not know, but I can absolutely guarantee its some sort of scanner.

Let alone what he has access to. Its not PI that bothers me, its that on a whim he can immediately stop any payments to ANYONE. Social Security, USAID, Contractors,... ANYONE. Without going thru Congress or the right approval process to stop payments. This is the end game, to bypass the gov't and any sort of checks and balances so King Orange can decide who gets money and who does not. Of course, this isn't just for stopping payments, Musk now has the access to cut checks to anyone... including himself. Without any tracking or approval. He could drain the federal gov't tomorrow in a few clicks.

And they are making it so it cannot be stopped. They've removed a lot of people's access so they only have exclusive access.

Then of course, the whole security issue here. The US Govt is attacked like every second if not more of the day, so now we have some moron who can't keep his own website (Xitter) secure, and we expect him to do the same with the gov't? LOL I wouldn't be surprised if he allows internal systems to be hacked, and every single citizens personal information will be bought and sold on the internet. He's just that fucking messy of a person. He thinks he knows.. but he doesn't.

This is the shit we NEED to be aware of and fight back on. Because once the worms are in the gov't computer system, both virus worms and people worms, it'll take a decade or more to undo whatever he did or at least finding out what he did cuz god know he's not documenting any of this.

A non-gov't employee who has not passed security clearance should NEVER be anywhere near a system that contains information they should not have access to. I worry about what else is being syphon'd off... secrets? military contracts? top secret weapon designs? Alot of that shit would get sold for big money on the dark net. And Orange one could not care one bit if it does, as long as he gets a cut.

We live in fearful times that we have never witnessed before. Buck up slutpuppy, this ain't gonna be no cake walk.

Adam, could you please enable the function of the home page that shows a logged-in user which posts have how many new comments since the last time they read the individual post? Thank you.

To hell with these punks and their Nazi overlord!

I hope these putzs' classmates are paying attention and treat them appropriately.