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[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

So, submit a completely redacted list of 5 bullet points? Isn't everything the Pentagon does potentially sensitive and related to national security?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 hours ago

Or, if they really want to troll them, just let ChatGPT come up with something.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago)

“What I did last week”

  • Looked for work.
  • Wrote a “what I did last week” email, and then deleted it when instructed to. Seven times.
  • Argued with my manager about whether DOGE was legally allowed to access the information they requested
  • got coffee for DOGE employees
  • escorted DOGE employees through the building
  • spent hours on the phone explaining to constituents that our funding was cut so we couldn’t provide the services they were due
[–] Bieren 10 points 5 hours ago

No one is reading the emails. They are all being fed into Grok. There is no way anyone is reading or tracking about 3 million emails. They are all going straight into President musks AI farm. And the right out to whoever paid for access.

[–] Nightwingdragon 36 points 7 hours ago* (last edited 7 hours ago)

Millions upon millions of federal employees sending emails discussing all sorts of highly sensitive and classified information, sent to a DOGE email server run by literal 20 year olds with zero experience, one of which has already been found to leak private business information. What could possibly go wrong?

Who are these emails for? Who's actually going to have access to these emails? Who is reviewing these emails, and who is making the decision of who goes and who doesn't? Where are these emails being stored? How long will you be storing the information? What security measures are in place to protect this high-value target from foreign adversaries? Which departments are going to be prioritized for review? These are all important questions that I'm sure our elected representatives in Congress are going to quickly get to the bottom of, right?

Right?

Guys?

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^guys?^

[–] chase_what_matters 17 points 7 hours ago

And they’re running all these email responses thru their janky-ass AI which I’m sure is as secure as a paper bag under a waterfall.

[–] just_another_person 29 points 8 hours ago (2 children)

Watch these assholes get sued by the military courts over trying to declassify information through unofficial channels of communication. New world coming for these fuckers.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

That won't do anything. You need officers to openly revolt

Also, it's the one part of the US government that I want to see get fucked by these guys because it's where all the actual waste happens

[–] just_another_person 12 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

The actual waste happens by paying third-party military contractors for things the government hasn't been paying attention to since the 70's.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 hours ago
[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 hours ago

Yes, this will certainly be their undoing.

[–] HappySkullsplitter 16 points 8 hours ago (3 children)

Classified accountability office is gonna have a heart attack

[–] fluxion 1 points 2 hours ago

Accountability in general has 32 stab wounds and 2 broken legs

[–] grue 1 points 3 hours ago

That presumes they aren't already themselves fired.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 hours ago

How could this not be a massive security breach? Even apart from directly classified work, the synthesis risk of something like this is just mind boggling.