Will that actually stop him at this point?

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Press secretary Karoline Leavitt also confirmed that Musk would extricate himself from any situations where he might have a conflict. “If Elon Musk comes across a conflict of interest with [his companies’] contracts and the funding that Doge is overseeing, then Elon will excuse himself from those contracts . . . he has abided by all applicable laws,” she said.

🤣😂🤣

Like when he started a lottery to bribe people into voting for trump. Or he forced back workers during COVID. Or when he bought twitter stock and spread rumors to lower the price … the list goes on

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Guy should be sitting in prison for breaking into our government systems. Having a mere say-so from the felon-in-chief is not enough.

Fuck, I hate this timeline.

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Agreed. If I ever tried “accessing” government data like that, I’d be in jail. So should he

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In a just world his entire administration would be in prison and we would forcefully redistribute the wealth of all the nepo babies who trotted on stage at his inauguration.

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203 points

It’s too late in some ways. He’s already had access. The system has been compromised. Any number of bad actors, including Musk himself, could have asked used this situation to insert their own code into the system. We will never again be able to be certain that it is secure.

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I imagine this looks a lot like what people in the cyber security sector do after a breach. Audit all the code, scan all the servers, monitor everything for several months. It’s a ton of work and very expensive, but there are people with lots of real-world experience unhacking systems.

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81 points

But the data is siphoned off now. We can, nay, have to assume this.

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35 points

yup. the real answer is to rotate EVERYTHING

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16 points

Yeah leaked data stays leaked. You can often find out what was leaked tho.

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40 points

Elon Musk is technically a job creator because so many people have to be hired just to fix his fuck ups.

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I still cannot believe this total dumbass is considered by so many to be some kind of genius.

Besides all the obvious stuff, like trying to deliberately break America, and giving Nazi salutes (and then hearing all the gaslighting and bothsiderist bullshit from the “liberal media” on that) on top of that, I have to still see stuff about what a sooper-dooper genius this fucking gomer is. Because having money == genius.

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I can’t read the article because paywall, but I assume access was blocked by some sort of court injunction. So what’ll really happen is that that stuff is how actual-patriot treasury employees will occupy their time until the ruling gets appealed to some MAGA judge and Musk waltzes right back in again.

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Yes, you will be able to trust the system, after an independent team have ripped out the old system and built a new from the ground up.

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Yep. It can only be secure after it’s crushed, now.

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That’s like saying “we have him root but then took it away.”

No, once someone has root its kinda it.

(Butbutbut selinux) No, not gonna help.

(Butbutbut we took it away) Chroot binaries are fun.

Etc.

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Side note; in Aussie slang, root means to fuck.

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Fair dinkum!

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We don’t use that much here. It’s more like fucken oath

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23 points

Can’t read the article it’s paywalled

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Fucking worst timeline

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