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Trump broke the federal email system and government employees got blasted with astonishingly vulgar messages

Trump Broke the Federal Email System and Government Employees Got Blasted With Astonishingly Vulgar Messages

Summary

A vulnerability in the new OPM email server allowed anyone to send mass messages to federal employees, exposing poor cybersecurity.

Over 13,000 NOAA staff received spam and vulgar messages, including crude jokes about Trump and bizarre newsletters, causing widespread outrage.

The breach resulted from an overhaul led by Elon Musk that installed underqualified personnel and an insecure in-house system, sparking a class-action lawsuit for cybersecurity failures.

The unsecured system also inadvertently revealed ties to Project 2025 and a plan to gather government employee data as Trump’s loyalists reshape federal operations.

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They can't even do a coup without fucking half of it up.
- That's the frightening part .... either they are idiots that are completely messing everything up including their own plans ... or they are following a well orchestrated plan of disruption and chaos to gain control of everything and everyone
  Either way, they are undoing a lot of things that will take years or decades to bring back
  "From barbarism to civilization requires a century; from civilization to barbarism needs but a day."
  Will Durant
  
  they are idiots that are completely messing everything up including their own plans
  Incompetence is one of the hallmark qualities of a fascist government.
  
  Just wait until all the backdoors are discovered. Or front doors I guess...with how inept these idiots are. Can't wait for someone with some power/money to actually get sick of these clowns and just end them
  
  "Flood the zone with shit" strategy.
  
  Either way, they are undoing a lot of things that will take years or decades to bring back
  This is what the accelerationists didn’t account for.
  
  It's much easier to fight a enemy that is confused, disorganized, and fighting amongst itself. This is by design.
  
  I'm betting on stage 1 underpants gnomes.
  
  I’ve always heard it as “democracy is only six missed meals away from anarchy.”
- Because they don't have to worry about fuck ups. Americans are gonna do jack shit about it. Otherwise something would have already been done.
  
  Not true. The Democrats will form a committee to discuss language to be placed in a letter to the administration, they may even call a news conference to state that they are disappointed in what is happening and if it continues they may have to do more drastic measures like actually sending the letter that the committee put together.
  
  Sadly Ayn Rand was right when she said...
  "The question isn't how can I do such things, but who is going to stop me?"
  Suda 51 was right, there really are No More Heroes.
- How have they fucked up? No one has stopped them
  
  What they mean are that it's a clusterfuck, giant Americans sit on sofas crying. You can fuck up while still achieving dominance
- They're firing Inspector Generals? Damn, thats like, expediting the destruction of the federal government.
  Edit: for those who don't know, IGs are independent officials within fed and state agencies that conduct investigations, audits or inspections to employees or agencies.
  
  He illegally fired 17 of them, including one investigating Neuralink, (one of Musk's companies).
  
  How are people just so unaware of what's happening in their own government?
  Like you're on a site like this, and you know what Inspector Generals do, but you're not aware that he fired over a dozen of them days into his term? How??
  There's a whole lot of, "I don't care about or pay attention to politics because nothing really changes for me" morons about to have a rude awakening.
The breach resulted from an overhaul led by Elon Musk that installed underqualified personnel and an insecure in-house system, sparking a class-action lawsuit for cybersecurity failures.
And y’all let him have access to government.
The world will burn from climate and war because of American stupidity.
- They rigged the vote and Trump threw him in there. How did WE do this exactly?
  
  As much as I wish otherwise, Trump got a plurality of the vote, and pre-election day polling was clear that such a result was very possible.
  The plurality of the people who bothered to vote put Trump in, who was quite clear about his alliance with Musk.
  This is on us.
  
  Unless you are suggesting that actual election fraud took place, these guys got democratically elected.
  From the outside it seems like this is what the majority of your voting public wanted, and the majority of your adult population were fine with it and chose not to vote. If it were the first time I would consider it as revealing a major flaw in your political system, but this is the second time, non consecutively, that this has happened. That just looks like this is representative of your people. Sorry.
  
  They rigged the vote
  sigh
- Trump won by 1.5% of the vote. And that amount was basically the number of people the Republicans managed to disenfranchise during this election.
  WE did nothing. The vast majority of Americans want this madness to end but no one with any sort of power to do anything is standing up to the orange bully.
  For all the guns we own, this country has very few Luigis who understand this is a class war. So what else are the people who didn’t vote for the asshole in the oval supposed to do about it?
- Thanks for grouping all Americans together into the same monolith.
  How transparently closed minded can you be ffs
  
  Do you care who the Russian soldier in Ukraine voted for?
  America is a monolith. This is what it chose to be. You can’t expect the rest of the world to act as nations yet only consider some of the population when one of them attacks.
  On the world stage where economies are tanked and people die - this is Americas choice. Your sports team politics is an internal problem that we all have to suffer.
And true to form, our boy Klip exposed the malignant incompetence while taking the opportunity to advertise his substack 😄
But her emails!?
Just to clarify, i'm talking about Musk. :)
- Stop misgendering Elon!
  The correct exclamation in this case is Butt Tizzy Males, not Buttery Males
  
  The Eo about gender made everyone a female.
How are Republican voters reconciling any of this? Or has Faux News spun this as something Obama's responsible for?
- I've been off Reddit for a while but I'd be lying if I didn't just go look at /r/conservative to see.
  "I pray Trump knows what he is doing, because if this doesn't work and just results in higher prices and nothing the average person can identify as a positive, then people will sour on Trump."
  "Im really worried this is going to bite us hard causing prices to skyrocket."
  "I’m in the construction industry and would be lying if I said I wasn’t a little nervous for this rollercoaster." In general, some longer comments are basically saying tariffs will work to bring home manufacturing. The problem with this is we would need manufacturing of most of these things IN PLACE NOW to be ready to do that. We're not since it's a surprise to both U.S. citizens and Canada.
  Many other posts are being deleted -- most I've ever seen, but again it's been a while since I've looked at Reddit.
  
  Thst must be the polite minority. Most times I dare to look into thedonald2.0 it's just stuff talking about annexing canada and Bombing europe
- Seriously, everyone needs to go check out FoxNews.com because it is insane that anyone could rely on them for their news. I checked out this morning and had to scroll WAY DOWN to find any mention of tariffs, and even then, it was praising trump for keeping a campaign promise.
It's been 4 days.
How did people get these email addresses?
I mean, the domain is known.
But was the system that president musk broke really holding back this torrent of abuse and garbage?
Feels like actual email addresses were leaked.
Unless it was a mailing list that was suddenly exposed.
Still seems strange that an email that simply says "yo" suddenly came through as part of the spam.
Feels like email addresses were posted somewhere, and someone jumped on for the lulz. Along with the wall of trolls and abusers jumping on.
I mean, as soon as I link a domain to an IP, I see all sorts of "security" scans turn up. Till then, firewall is pretty quiet.
And if I wildcard direct a domain to an ip, the root gets scanned but any sub domains don't.
I feel email addresses would follow a similar pattern.
- It's worse than you think. Last week we got an email that looked like strait up fishing spam demanding that we were to email back "yes" confirming that we got the email. So many people even reported it as spam that we had supervisors have to directly tell us that it was legit. Then they sent out a second email with a warning that is was in fact legit and to respond to that email with "yes" if we got that one.
  On the back end at OPM: Musk forced his way in and demanded to redo the email servers. The IT told him it wasn't possible for what he was asking. So he brought in his own goons to install a non government server with unknown software and unknown security configurations and they plugged it into the OPM network to spoof it as an official OPM server, then sent out those emails.
  And sure enough, the idiot didn't didn't configure the security correctly or let official government IT people touch it, it ended up backdooring into the entire government HR system, and it had every active government email that responded "yes" to his stupid email that we were required to. And now we know it was compromised. There is no telling what foreign governments now have all of that info as well as what other backdoors they have installed.
  
  Holy shit.
  That's some shit that contravenes every security briefing, every security best practice.
  Then they go and spoof a legit government installation with their own bullshit?!
  Fucking Hilary and her email servers. But like times 10. Legitimately compromising the US government communications.
  Why is this lawsuits, why isn't this treason?!
  
  Jesus fucking Christ, someone needs to stop these evil motherfuckers
Expect more of this. Unfortunately, ears will be plugged and eyes will be covered as people just go "lalalalala"
I wonder how much of the intended damage he wants us to suffer is going to be mitigated as a result of their incompetence, and then I wonder how long can we count on them to continue making these mistakes before people begin to get seriously hurt…
- People have already died from their actions. 2 plane crashes and counting.
There's gotta be a way to make it stop
- Guillotines
  
  Costco should start carrying them
- I've heard of a treatment. The guy who killed Hitler did it. It's a high speed lead treatment. Very effective
  
  They won't listen to that. At this point they are pro-Hitler.
  They should employ the method Hitler used in the end! It was super effective!
  
  Problem is, we can't just skip to that part of the story without being accused of being just like the J6 crowd. I hate what is happening, and don't want to say there's nothing that can be done, but unfortunately there's a bunch of people who aren't gonna wake up and get it until it hurts them personally.
  For now, probably the best thing we can do is stand up for those in their crosshairs and support them however we can, while we wait for a bunch of the anti-woke crowd to wake up to the fact that they voted for the leopard that's eating their face. Now, there should definitely be a limit on how long we wait for them to wake up, but at the speed this leopard is going? I doubt anyone will be unscathed by Spring.
But her emails...
This is glorious. The mess is amazing, but the money that will be saved after it's all done will be worth it.
- Given the lawsuits this is opening up, I wonder if you're joking.

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