Senior advisor at 26. Right. Veritable boy genius, our mate, isn't he?
this post was submitted on 07 Mar 2025
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Restoring Meritocracy since 1998 give or take.
Oh god.....1998 WAS that long ago......
I was thinking "1998? If he were 26 he would be born in........oh."
It just feels like 1998 was just a couple of years ago. Like 3 years ago. Then I remember how much stupid shit the world has gone through since 2000, and I think "OOOOOH! My brain is just blocking out entire decades!"
And the year 2020 simultaneously didn't happen at all, and was also 10 years long.
I'd just love if the world stopped being a massive dumpster fire that I psychologically block out, much the same as trauma victims do after they've experienced something horrific. Which is an accurate way to describe life since 2001.
Oh jesus fucking christ I have hoodies older than this kid.
But younger than you, trapped around 2016 mentally. Like, I'll still write it for the date every now and then type of trapped. It's been 9 years since then.
No, no, you're reading it wrong. He's actually advising seniors on how much to invest in Elon's companies
Patsy, Fall guy, rube
You should see the 19 and 20 year olds. 26 is older in comparison.
Recruited in 2016... He was 18 years old, that'd be legal. What's the problem? ;p
Last organisation I worked for—not for profit, health—had around 17,500 employees. One of the cybersecurity managers had every employees details and devices on a Google Sheet private account that anyone could see if they had the share URL.
Home addresses, phone numbers, MAC addresses, IMEIs, columns of PII....
I started getting all sorts of unsolicited contact and 2-step authentication alerts "randomly" after two months there and 8 months later rEvil successfully ransomwared for $3.4M.
So when I found this sheet and no one took it seriously, I declared an internal data breach, submitted it to the fed—as you legally must in this country—and shit hit the fan for that department.
I declared an internal data breach, submitted it to the fed—as you legally must in this country—and shit hit the fan for that department.
You are a legend
That is fucking amazing.
Please tell me this 'cybersecurity manager' was... fired, or drawn and quartered, or something.
Probably got a promotion.
I don't think so. No one higher up quite understood the severity, even after the ransom event. I kind of established the impression that not-for-profit c-suites are full of the leftovers. If they were any good, they'd be elsewhere earning much more.
sigh
This has also been my experience with non profit c suite.
I used to be co-lead of the data department for a non profit that dealt with PII... including medical data... spent a lot of time making sure we were doing things right.
... And then one day, one of the board members asked me to implement blockchain security on our postgres databases, in an in-person meeting.
I buried my head in my hands, looked uo, and told her "No, the blockchain is insanely insecure, its easily de-obfuscated... and it would make our systems run somewhere between 10,000 and 100,000 times more slowly.... if its even possible to implement postgres running through or on ... some kind of blockchain."
She did a fake corpo smile and 'politely' ended the meeting.
... I wanted to strangle her to death.
I recently had to submit some PII to my employer. The person requesting that information invited me to a video meeting so that the information wouldn't easily be accessible on record.
I've been working in this field for around fifteen years. This was the first time someone in charge of handling my information has even pretended to care about it.
Semi-Related:
Kathy Lueders used to be a high up at NASA.
She personally chose to make Starship HLS variant be the thing that delivers Artemis astronauts to the lunar surface.
She also wildly misrepresented SpaceX's capabilities and rigged the 'request for proposal' process heavily in favor of SpaceX a few years later.
https://youtube.com/watch?v=hAEYtaB3R7Y
https://youtube.com/watch?v=NSZlZegPnl4
... And now she works for SpaceX.
https://www.space.com/spacex-hires-nasa-human-spaceflight-chief-kathy-lueders
It's basically a comedic parody of the kind of regulatory capture process, the incestuous relationship of people jumping between the private and government sides of a public/private partnership... and its all right in the open, actually real.
This kind of shit is the actual deep state, the actual unelected, quid pro quo, 'subject matter expert' asshats that cause waste fraud and abuse.
BO and dynetics proposals also weren't great. The path to reusability was really fishy.
What's this
A directory of DOGE workers and their email addresses.
People need to stop pointing things like this out. Let them be confused as fuck about how and why people know everything they’re doing.
Like the kid who was using his public personal GitHub repo for official DOGE work.
Yea for real. This is a honeypot, who just gives those away?
Also, imagine all the real penetration experts who have completely compromised these absolute morons.
But that's not what a honeypot is
You're right of course, I had a little bit of trouble searching for the right word.
I'm only half-awake, but I can't think of what the right word would be either :)
You had a good point thought, you dont just give those away and let them know to fix it...!
The meaning of Honeypot you refer to is a metaphor. It's not wrong to use it in other ways.
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Yea, BI didn't want to get beat to the headline, so they want to press, but what a wasted opportunity.
The jokes just write themselves.
"OPSEC lol what's that some kind of new meme-coin?" - DOGE
Is it like..an app?
Going back to 2016? What appointments does a 17-year-old got that he gotta write down?
Class schedule and track meetups?
I'm in my thirties and I was using Google calendar in high school 🤷♂️
Tell me your rich parents coddled you without telling me your rich parents coddled you.
Why such a snarky remark? Why not just answer OPs questions and create a welcoming, entertaining, educative environment for all of us?
Rich parents taught him the art of the put down.
Because they were being incredibly rude and infantilizing to teenagers. You don’t have to be nice to assholes.
Tell me you're an asshole without telling me you're an asshole.
Close, poverty and adhd
...you ever heard of paper?
Nobody grabbed a .ics?
Buttery males!
But what about Hunter Biden’s penis!!!
I heard Arnold Palmer is jealous.
Hope y'all booted them out
They all bleed the same.
Sock bath!