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DOGE website posts classified information, worrying intelligence officials (www.thedailybeast.com)

submitted 6 days ago by MicroWave to c/news

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Summary

Elon Musk’s DOGE website mistakenly published classified intelligence data, including personnel and budget details for the National Reconnaissance Office.

The breach sent Defense Department officials scrambling, as the NRO’s headcount and budget are typically classified. Intelligence aides confirmed the leak is problematic under current security standards.

Concerns have also been raised about DOGE’s inexperienced staff. The White House has not commented, and the site was later hacked.

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[–] [email protected] 134 points 6 days ago (5 children)

WHY DO THEY HAVE CLASSIFIED DATA?

That's not something you just give access to because someone says they want it and they're high up in the command structure.

[–] [email protected] 99 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Because the people who objected to them not having the clearance to view the data were put on leave.

[Musk's] comments come after the administration placed two top security chiefs at USAID on leave after they refused to turn over classified material in restricted areas to Musk’s government-inspection teams, a current and a former U.S. official told The Associated Press on Sunday

[–] [email protected] 35 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (1 children)

Jesus fucking Christ.

Does anybody else feel like we're all nearing a collective psychotic break? Like, am I crazy, or is everything suddenly fucking crazy?

[–] [email protected] 19 points 5 days ago (1 children)

It's not you, it's fucking crazy.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 5 days ago

Are we all just deciding to internalize it or something? Or is this Bystander Effect on a national scale?

[–] [email protected] 81 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Look, War Thunder isn't going to develop itself.

[–] TokenBoomer 4 points 5 days ago

Best comment.

[–] [email protected] 46 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (1 children)

These systems are typically air-gapped so to be able to acquire it is a particularly bad fuck-up.

That being said information from unclassed systems can become classified when put in a single place/file for easy consumption.

Either way someone really, REALLY fucked up here.

[–] pivot_root 22 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

Either way someone really, REALLY fucked up here.

I wouldn't say it's someone as much as it's something.

Neither of the Felonius Fuckheads have ever faced actual consequences for their actions. The entire judicial system has fucked up by teaching them that they're above the systems of checks and balances designed to hold them accountable and prevent them from making unilateral changes to fundamental aspects of the government operates.

And so, Elon just casually walked in wherever he pleased, caused chaos and disruption with his cronies, and walked out leaving behind servers exfiltrating anything they could get their hands on.

[–] spankmonkey 14 points 5 days ago

So they can feed it to their fellow Tech Bros and probably Russia while they are at it.

[–] eran_morad 11 points 5 days ago

Because trump works for Putin. It couldn’t be any clearer.