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Government Networks Being Exposed (cyberintel.substack.com)

submitted 1 week ago by TheAbominable to c/[email protected]

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Can anyone verify this report? This seems... Bad.

Between January 14 and February 8, servers belonging to Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility, and Fermi Accelerator National Laboratory have been found with Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) services exposed to the public internet. This grants malicious actors the opportunity to hack into servers hosting sensitive nuclear research data, a golden egg for spy agencies across the globe.

My investigation also revealed government servers directly interfacing with AI products, creating yet another disturbing risk to national security that is extremely difficult to reverse or mitigate.

With the state of government security before this, I don't have a lot of hope these were secure, but at least they weren't exposed directly to the Internet for attack.....

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago

Our digital fortresses now have their drawbridges permanently lowered, moats drained, and guards replaced by cardboard cutouts. The sheer incompetence radiating from these exposures would be comical if it weren’t treason-adjacent. Nuclear labs leaking like sieve-powered colanders? Treasury systems broadcasting “hack me” beacons? This isn’t cybersecurity—it’s geopolitical seppuku with Elon’s DOGE cronies holding the ceremonial blade.

AI slurping classified data through Inventry.ai’s API is peak dystopia. We’ve outsourced national secrets to algorithms trained on crypto-bro hustle culture. The same geniuses who brought you “production-ready” self-driving flamethrowers now hold the keys to 20% of the economy.

Meanwhile, every script-kiddie from Siberia to Shenzhen is mapping our infrastructure like tourists with a Pentagon-themed scavenger hunt list. The founding fathers would’ve started a second revolution over this. Instead, we get congressional hearings and thoughts and prayers encrypted in compliance theater.