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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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[–] ininewcrow@lemmy.ca 123 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (7 children)

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
[–] yardy_sardley@lemmy.ca 46 points 1 year ago (3 children)

they are idiots that are completely messing everything up including their own plans

Incompetence is one of the hallmark qualities of a fascist government.

[–] CitizenKong@lemmy.world 22 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Hey, people think Hitler's Germany was a success story until he started to loose the war but it was actually a clusterfuck right from the beginning and doomed to fail from the start.

[–] Kitathalla@lemy.lol 5 points 1 year ago

I mean, he loosed war pretty early, so it wasn't that long according to what you say.

[–] Semi_Hemi_Demigod@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

If you start a mechanized war without significant oil reserves you're gonna have a bad time

[–] HawlSera@lemm.ee 4 points 1 year ago

And that's pretty lucky, because it means they will be the architects of their own downfall.

The question isn't if or even when will Trump fall, it's how many of us will die in the process.

[–] datavoid@lemmy.ml -4 points 1 year ago

Now now... incompetence is the hallmark of any government

[–] Fiivemacs@lemmy.ca 32 points 1 year ago

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

[–] BestBouclettes@jlai.lu 20 points 1 year ago

"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.

[–] catloaf@lemm.ee 10 points 1 year ago

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.”