Lunesy
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Just wait until the US government turns off access to the GPS system. I bet Elon suddenly finds some new tasks for his rockets and satelites.
Feel kinda bad for Grimes but also she has repeatedly made godawful life decisions.
Wow I’ll really be upset when they put schiff on the train, oh wait no
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He was a bit too busy at CPAC wielding a chainsaw and rambling about buying Twitter to respond to Grimes. I haven’t googled it yet, but I’m going to guess that ketamine dilates the pupils.
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sunglasses indoors and can’t form a sentence
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The current acting head of the social security agency was a low level toady, a quisling, that self admittedly was breaking the law to help DOGE, got disciplined for it, Elon heard about it, forced the head to be resign, and the elevated this dork to run the agency
Before his big promotion, Dudek was a management analyst in a non-supervisory role, according to a current SSA staffer. The New York Times reported Dudek was overseeing the agency’s anti-fraud office, but I’ve been told this is an inflation of his actual role. He was, I’m told, a GS-15 employee, which means he was at the highest government pay grade below Senior Executive Service (SES). But he was “so junior,” according to Nancy Altman, President of the nonprofit Social Security Works, that her sources at the agency were not familiar with him.
The story of what actually happened started to come together: Dudek had been placed on leave by previous leadership for helping DOGE; he posted about it; Musk caught wind of what Dudek had done for him and forced the former Acting Commissioner to resign; then he rewarded Dudek for his loyalty by promoting him to temporarily lead the agency while they waited for Senate confirmation of Trump’s nominee Frank Bisignano, a banking executive. (Bisignano, an SSA staffer told me, is currently “in the loop on everything.”)
BTW I wanted to mention that the chief actuary for Social Security is an absolutely fantastic guy and if you get a chance to hear him talk about SS or read hie materials on SS, you will understand the importantance / sustainability / value of SS much better.
I was at a conference years ago and the attending pension actuaries and their spouses all went out to dinner. Stephen held court at the table and told all kinds of great personal and professional stories. My wife literally said after dinner “that guy is the coolest actuary I’ve ever met!”. I was like, other than me right? We basically did a real life version of the meme.
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literal gg. this is worth putting into the internet archive for the freebie version. We wont unfuck this for the rest of our lives. The damage is not even really calculable because this is completely uncharted territory.
I keep joking with a colleague about events that have been transpiring, that if I was Skynet or some kind of malevolent AI, every single thing (and especially this) that’s been happening I’d be super pleased with.
They’re going to get everything. If successful (I dont believe the courts will be fast or capable enough) this will go down as the biggest hack in human history by an order of magnitude. holy shit. I have difficulty wrapping my head around it. Even if I was deranged or evil enough to want and use the level of access some of these individuals had, I’d be terrified of having a target on my back constantly and likely would hole up in a bunker for fear of it, which suggests these people are also very stupid because they seem unconcerned, even gleeful about it.
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who exactly would target them? They’re all on their side.
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blackhat hackers, criminal organizations, foreign adversaries, nutjobs… it’s really hard to overstate how ridiculous this access is. I’d bet my next paycheck some of this access is just chillin on this dude’s personal phone too
again, they’re all on their side just ask or go through the backdoor yourself
no?
i mean if we’re talking foreign adversaries you mean the UK?
cause I assumed straight up they uploaded it all so russia got it somewhere. or they could just ask elon he’s on their side
By that Im talking china, iran, NK, russia (i agree in russia’s case they likely have everything though).
Luckily for this one spaceX dude he’s likely already hopelessly pwned and hacked anyway, this is precisely what 8 figure+ zero days are for, so i doubt hes in any physical danger other from these types, but I’d still be terrified enough of getting hacked and having the entire federal it system in the hands of us adversaries… who would want their name attached to that? regardless of motive.
I’m not talking strictly about the data, I’m talking about backdoors being installed etc. or more malicious things. This level of access is nuts, even in the private sector. It’s bad enough that it got the normally trumpy and musky hackernews forum to completely turn on DOGE.
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I’m somewhat in the space and this has the potential to be an extinction level event.
This WILL be exploited.
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yea me too, I’m hesitant to write too much about it from my perspective, it’s unbelievably fucked
the line in that article from the senior govt dude quoted gave me chills where he was like “I had to seriously question whether I should file taxes this year”
Idk, I hear it’s a harsh mistress.
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“Coolest Actuary”? Talk about damning with faint praise.
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Keep running your mouth and I’ll show you what a 100% mortality rate looks like.
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