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23-Year-Old Elon Musk Rep Granted Energy Dept. IT Access Without Security Clearance

balleralert.com 23-Year-Old Elon Musk Rep Granted Energy Dept. IT Access Without Security Clearance

A 23-year-old former SpaceX intern, Luke Farritor, was granted access to the U.S. Energy Department’s IT system—despite lacking the required security clearance and background check, according to CNN. The decision, approved by Trump loyalist Energy Secretary Chris Wright, was made over strong objecti...

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Imagine having worked there for years. You follow all those opsec and cybersecurity rules painstakingly because it's all so important and everything. And then some student waltzes in and just does whatever.
- A student who may very well be a malignant narcissist, who doesn't understand how anything works outside of their highly niche studies.
- All that.. annual training.

This is every hackers wet dream. Access to government systems they should not have any right to access. Our enemies couldn’t dream of a better scenario. A few young stupid and inexperienced developers writing backdoors to previously secure systems for some rich dumb oligarch to exploit and leaving national security completely exposed.
- Our enemies did dream it. They also planned it and executed it.
  
  Wrote up a summary months ago (with reputable sources!) and warned about Nazis too and was permabanned from Lemmy news and politics for it.
  Idk man, you can tell people stuff, but it’s so hard for them to access what’s real right now. There’s a concerted online effort to suppress factual info.
  https://lemmy.world/comment/13431373

US Department of Energy is responsible for the transportation of all assembled nuclear weapons
- While the department’s chief information office does not control IT systems for nuclear weapons labs, it does provide connectivity and internet services for the National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) headquarters.
  Even worse.

This is the guy writting back door access into computer systems in the government? This can only end badly. One day when America's enemy get aggressive enough they will exploit this weakness in our system he put in. It be 100% this guy's fault when that happens.
- You tell me a 23 years old can be compromised ! Who would have thought !
  Heavy threats or promised large sum of money won't be used against such a strong willfull man right ?
  
  Ageism right here. There is nothing preventing a 23 year old from holding a security clearance and being as trustworthy as a 50 year old.

Oh, fantastic, another nepo-baby speedrun through national security. Why bother with clearances when your last name is Musk? 23 years old and already bypassing protocols like it’s a Tesla recall.
The Energy Department’s IT systems? Not exactly TikTok servers, but sure, let’s hand over the keys to someone whose resume reads like “intern at dad’s company.”
At this point, the clearance process is just vibes. Good luck, grid.

What's awesome is that this kind of thing is objectively bad.
But 50% will defend it, not because they think it's right necessarily, but because their guy is the one in charge and 99% of US voters form their opinions solely on the basis of convenience.

"Adding to the controversy, sources revealed that there are plans to install a SpaceX network security engineer as the Energy Department’s new chief information officer. This move, if confirmed, would further solidify Musk’s influence in key government sectors, particularly in cybersecurity " Whats it going to take for us to take this shit back? This is straight up a security threat and anyone else who had taken over this" email and Microsoft 365" information would have been hounded by the FBI, the CIA all the alphabet teams. WHAT THE FUCK IS GOING ON?!!!!

How long before security in one of these departments physically stops these guys from waltzing in
- I wouldn’t hold my breath. In the end, these are people trying to feed their families, which is going to be impossible if they are resisting this too hard. The attack by the magats is unprecedented in this respect.
  
  It's sad. This is how we get to "just following orders", and I can't say I blame them for not stopping them. Even if they wanted to, they'd just be replaced by someone who wouldn't.
- No security clearance? Trying to access sensitive national security government systems?
  That sounds like something that falls into the all enemies, foreign and domestic category.
- When someone without a family that can be disappeared when the orange turd has a hissyfit is in the way?
  
  It's win/win... He'll be the perfect scapegoat when this move inevitably ends up killing Americans.

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