> I find it strange that neither activists nor politicians nor journalists cared about that enough to make it a continuous news cycle.
Because (a) that was a month ago and that's a long time given recent events. And (b), it's implicit that someone 'inappropriate' having access is a bad thing, but with Trump/Musk/DOGE it's being done on purpose.
It's the purposeful part that's at issue now.
There are people who have reportedly just graduated high school that have root-level access to things:
* https://futurism.com/elon-kids-gutting-opm-doge
Beside being party loyalists, do they have any kind of qualifications?
If you can’t understand that difference, you’re missing something very critical.
One is serious because a foreign adversary is compromising us; the other is serious because we are apparently designing the compromise ourselves via the whims of a demagogue.
You don't need read-write access for auditing. You don't need root/admin-level privileges.
So far the only evidence of that is a wired article [1] with anonymous sources, even those source were not 100% sure about it.
Since then wired has posted another article [2] claiming the access have been revoked after announcements from senior officials, which again is from anonymous sources.
I'm really skeptical of these anonymous sources tbh.
[1] https://www.wired.com/story/elon-musk-associate-bfs-federal-...
[2] https://www.wired.com/story/treasury-department-doge-marko-e...
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/this-21-year-old-u...
Did the ancient scrolls involved accounting ledgers? Because some kind of auditing experience would be useful to figure out how where Treasury or USAid payments went.
I'm surprised you didn't throw in jabs like "racist misogynistic eugenicist" like some reports...
To be clear: I am not here to defend companies with weak cybersecurity, but the impact of these leaks is virtually nil. "One hundred million" sounds like a huge number, but it provides little insight on the realised impacts.
because they made a public show of it. That's the big difference. Meanwhile, Healhcare is already under more scutiny than ever and want to bury a lede of hacking.
Why don’t you just state your opinion instead of being vague?
No not strange, because Elon etc. will cause more damage to their corrupt careers than other security breaches.
Say what you will, but Musk has a track record of executing well at preposterous speed, so for legacy players/media this sorta of PR campaign is about the most they can muster.
At the end of the day thought, we'll all have to compare real word results versus those PR narratives and I am positive i know which way that will swing. You just can't PR bullshit you way out something like a 250ton piece of stainless sticking a landing.
I highly disagree, and these stories makes his incompetence more obvious. As well as proving various anecdoctes years ago from SpaceX/Tesla that Musk was someone you needed to work around, not with.
He has been promising Tesla full auto-pilot every year for about 9 years. Just around the corner he said. I even shelled out $10K for it on top of the price of my car, 6 years ago. He said the car would pick up the owner from the airport. That was about 5 years ago.
Musk says a lot and promises a lot. A lot of it never materializes. And he seems be going insane at a rapid pace as of late. I have been wondering if the ketamine that he says he has been taking is really turning his brain into mush.