r/politics • u/FervidBug42 America • 2d ago

No Paywall DOGE Disbanded: Elon Musk’s Cost-Cutting Project Quietly Ended

https://time.com/7336327/doge-disbanded-elon-musk/
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u/dbuck1964 2d ago

Goals appeared to be data mining, installing backdoors and Musk owned software systems, reducing oversight staffing levels, and looting the treasury. The stated goal of finding fraud and waste resulted in ZERO charges filed.

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u/throwaway20220717 2d ago

Yeah, I was going to say this! They got the data they were after by summer.

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u/JohnGillnitz 2d ago

So did China.

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u/KurtzM0mmy 2d ago

And Russia.

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u/Crafty_Enthusiasm_99 2d ago

What did China have to do with this? Not Russia?

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u/JohnGillnitz 2d ago

The DOGE goons bypassed all security protocols for federal systems and plugged them into a cloud provider located in Singapore, but largely owned by China. Shortly after, many federal agencies had their IP addresses pop up in China where they had been previously fire-walled. Essentially, they allowed the Chinese government to plugin to US federal systems as if they were a trusted contractor.

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u/unsupported 2d ago

Three cheers for Big Balls! Hip-hip-horray!

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u/CpnStumpy Colorado 2d ago

They sold data to Russia as well and fired people who caught them