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DOGE Now Has Access to the Top US Cybersecurity Agency (www.wired.com)
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[–] masterofn001@lemmy.ca 9 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Musks long dream of x, the "everything app" (ie, the app all must use to buy, sell,travel,work,receive medical care,and be surveilled by means of starlink, and all federal systemds will run through, etc)is soon to come to fruition.

Kinda sounds like the mark of the beast.

https://www.theverge.com/2023/7/26/23808796/elon-musks-x-everything-app-vision

https://landfamilyhome.substack.com/p/a-household-guide-for-cyber-defense

Possible motive: “X” —> American WeChat

Like other crimes, with cyber attacks it is important to identify a motive to understand your attacker better and anticipate their next move. In this attack I believe the motive is a forced cutover of critical infrastructure systems in banking, telecommunications and travel to a centralized model. In plain terms what I’m saying is that DOGE wants to migrate American federal systems to X using the WeChat model where all network and transactional systems are centrally routed and processed. I believe this is the case because of these signals:

Elon Musk said he was going to do this with X, see reporting here from The Verge.

Apple silently released an update as part of 18.3 on Friday that includes Starlink support.

What this could look like from a rollout perspective is:

X is assigned as the communications authority for all government agencies, this is already underway: NTSB exclusively communicating via X.

Route all federal transactions through X: This is underway as DOGE has taken control of the federal treasury and pushed out the acting director.

Create X profiles that map to the US citizen records database, to streamline management of identity and act as proof of citizenship.

Standardize on a government monitored telecommunications network, Starlink, to allow network traffic control of all domestic communications, giving federal agencies (or just DOGE) the authority to censor information at will.