NPR breaks story about DOGE

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Thank you to NPR, and the few courageous investigative journalists out there.

I am going to send this to all the highly educated wealthy, anti-big-government people I know, who voted for Trump.

+1. Few DOGE staff have passed the normally required background checks and Elon has assembled an unfortunate crew of people who have been fired from various positions for cause (like leaking company data). And DOGE has access to sensitive information on national security and taxpayer information. This will not end well when this info falls into the wrong hands.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The link is not easy reading because it's a transcript of an interview rather than an article and, at least for me, because it discusses computer technology/programing stuff that may not be understandable to everybody. But it is important because of red flags that it raises like this:

"Within 15 minutes of DOGE engineers creating accounts, years, names and passwords within internal systems within DOGE, within 15 minutes of the creation of those accounts, somebody or something from Russia tried to log in with all of our credentials, meaning they had the right usernames and right passwords. And the question is, how do they get that and why?

The second question that I have is that why is it that from what Dan has seen, as well as others, because we have spoken to other individuals who are able to corroborate this, which is that some of the data is also using Starlink as a backdoor. And that's another way to get data out of internal databases within agencies. And Starlink has now direct access where information is likely, we believe is funneled directly into Russia."

You would think some Congressional Republicans would crawl out of their hole long enough to sound the alarm on this…Ronald Reagan must be rolling over in his grave.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The link is not easy reading because it's a transcript of an interview rather than an article and, at least for me, because it discusses computer technology/programing stuff that may not be understandable to everybody. But it is important because of red flags that it raises like this:

"Within 15 minutes of DOGE engineers creating accounts, years, names and passwords within internal systems within DOGE, within 15 minutes of the creation of those accounts, somebody or something from Russia tried to log in with all of our credentials, meaning they had the right usernames and right passwords. And the question is, how do they get that and why?

The second question that I have is that why is it that from what Dan has seen, as well as others, because we have spoken to other individuals who are able to corroborate this, which is that some of the data is also using Starlink as a backdoor. And that's another way to get data out of internal databases within agencies. And Starlink has now direct access where information is likely, we believe is funneled directly into Russia."

You would think some Congressional Republicans would crawl out of their hole long enough to sound the alarm on this…Ronald Reagan must be rolling over in his grave.

I’m sure that the Trumpbots have been programmed to think that he was a far left crazy.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Notice how conservatives and trolls don't respond to posts like this so they eventually "disappear."

DOGE has collected a large amount of information on US citizens that is very valuable economically and to other countries like Russia.

What are they going to do with this info on your average Joe and Jane? People talk about data being collected but no scenarios of what exactly the harm will be to average people.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Notice how conservatives and trolls don't respond to posts like this so they eventually "disappear."

DOGE has collected a large amount of information on US citizens that is very valuable economically and to other countries like Russia.

What are they going to do with this info on your average Joe and Jane? People talk about data being collected but no scenarios of what exactly the harm will be to average people.

What bothers me is that they now have a lot of personal information about federal officials, which Russians/Chinese/whoever may now be able to exploit in order to entrap/exploit/blackmail/etc

And that's just one of many things bothering me about this.

All of this is undermining our national security in many ways.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Seems that NPR is trying desperately to stay relevant. Do I believe their reporting? Heck no. They have given me no reason to trust their reporting.

Wasn’t NPR the media group that refused to report on HB’s laptop? Why should we believe them now?

Translation: NPR does actual investigative journalism and publishes facts I don't like. And BTW, how can I bring up Hunter Biden.

FFS you are such an unbelievable loser.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Notice how conservatives and trolls don't respond to posts like this so they eventually "disappear."

DOGE has collected a large amount of information on US citizens that is very valuable economically and to other countries like Russia.

What are they going to do with this info on your average Joe and Jane? People talk about data being collected but no scenarios of what exactly the harm will be to average people.

The most recent report is that they found two DOGE staffers on the networks where there is info on nukes:

"Two members of Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency were given accounts on classified networks that hold highly guarded details about America's nuclear weapons, two sources tell NPR.

Luke Farritor, a 23-year-old former SpaceX intern, and Adam Ramada, a Miami-based venture capitalist, have had accounts on the computer systems for at least two weeks, according to the sources who also have access to the networks."
https://www.npr.org/2025/04/28/nx-s1-5378684/doge-energy-department-nuclear-secrets-access

Denials are being made that they accessed sensitive info, but cmon.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Seems that NPR is trying desperately to stay relevant. Do I believe their reporting? Heck no. They have given me no reason to trust their reporting.

Wasn’t NPR the media group that refused to report on HB’s laptop? Why should we believe them now?

Translation: "I don't like NPR because they didn't push the same salacious lies about the laptop that NY Post, Newsmax and others did about the laptop."

This. MAGA only wants KKKoolaid from extreme MAGA sites

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Notice how conservatives and trolls don't respond to posts like this so they eventually "disappear."

DOGE has collected a large amount of information on US citizens that is very valuable economically and to other countries like Russia.

What are they going to do with this info on your average Joe and Jane? People talk about data being collected but no scenarios of what exactly the harm will be to average people.

It's clearly valuable to them, since they went to such trouble to access it and then cover their tracks.

[Anonymous]

If Dems want this kind of news to break through I think we need to do a better job of explaining why this is bad.

This thread is a perfect example of Dems hyperventilating about something we “know” is bad, without explaining why. Additionally, I til we can show that someone has done something naughty with their access, no one cares.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:If Dems want this kind of news to break through I think we need to do a better job of explaining why this is bad.

This thread is a perfect example of Dems hyperventilating about something we “know” is bad, without explaining why. Additionally, I til we can show that someone has done something naughty with their access, no one cares.

So you're cool with the illegal acquisition of your personal information? Good lord, the rationalizations are off the chart.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:If Dems want this kind of news to break through I think we need to do a better job of explaining why this is bad.

This thread is a perfect example of Dems hyperventilating about something we “know” is bad, without explaining why. Additionally, I til we can show that someone has done something naughty with their access, no one cares.

Methinks you have a very partisan take on this. Your shrug is disingenuous.

There are countless examples of abuse of data, which is why there are all sorts of laws, regulations, rules, disclosures, waivers, etc around its collection and use. The people in charge of federal data have--until now--gone to great lengths to keep it siloed and protected, for good reasons.

Now the data is not universally exposed, it's just compiled and transferred to Grok, Russia, the highest criminal bidders, who knows?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:If Dems want this kind of news to break through I think we need to do a better job of explaining why this is bad.

This thread is a perfect example of Dems hyperventilating about something we “know” is bad, without explaining why. Additionally, I til we can show that someone has done something naughty with their access, no one cares.

Lmao…this is a bad troll.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:If Dems want this kind of news to break through I think we need to do a better job of explaining why this is bad.

This thread is a perfect example of Dems hyperventilating about something we “know” is bad, without explaining why. Additionally, I til we can show that someone has done something naughty with their access, no one cares.

Lmao…this is a bad troll.

Seriously I’m not trolling. I woke up salty and pissed off that we aren’t able to communicate more eff natively about what DOGE is doing. You have to remember who you’re trying to reach. Unless you show them a picture book, THEY DON’T GET IT. People are used to info breaches, they don’t really worry about it anymore. If you can show them a scenario that involves the information being used in some novel nefarious way, it would be more helpful. Better if you can prove it’s been done.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:If Dems want this kind of news to break through I think we need to do a better job of explaining why this is bad.

This thread is a perfect example of Dems hyperventilating about something we “know” is bad, without explaining why. Additionally, I til we can show that someone has done something naughty with their access, no one cares.

Lmao…this is a bad troll.

Seriously I’m not trolling. I woke up salty and pissed off that we aren’t able to communicate more eff natively about what DOGE is doing. You have to remember who you’re trying to reach. Unless you show them a picture book, THEY DON’T GET IT. People are used to info breaches, they don’t really worry about it anymore. If you can show them a scenario that involves the information being used in some novel nefarious way, it would be more helpful. Better if you can prove it’s been done.

Data breaches do happen, but this was obviously the intent of DOGE all along for those of us paying attention. Sketchy hackers allowed to access personal data and sending it to Russia. Imagine this happening under Biden or Obama.