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A whistleblower's disclosure details how DOGE may have taken sensitive labor data

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I listened to this guy this morning. He stated that once DOGE had top access, logins were coming in from Russian IP addresses and massive amounts of data was being downloaded then deleted.

In the first days of March, a team of advisers from President Trump's new Department of Government Efficiency initiative arrived at the Southeast Washington, D.C., headquarters of the National Labor Relations Board.

The small, independent federal agency investigates and adjudicates complaints about unfair labor practices. It stores reams of potentially sensitive data, from confidential information about employees who want to form unions to proprietary business information.

The DOGE employees, who are effectively led by White House adviser and billionaire tech CEO Elon Musk, appeared to have their sights set on accessing the NLRB's internal systems. They've said their unit's overall mission is to review agency data for compliance with the new administration's policies and to cut costs and maximize efficiency.
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But according to an official whistleblower disclosure shared with Congress and other federal overseers that was obtained by NPR, subsequent interviews with the whistleblower and records of internal communications, technical staff members were alarmed about what DOGE engineers did when they were granted access, particularly when those staffers noticed a spike in data leaving the agency. It's possible that the data included sensitive information on unions, ongoing legal cases and corporate secrets — data that four labor law experts tell NPR should almost never leave the NLRB and that has nothing to do with making the government more efficient or cutting spending.
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Meanwhile, according to the disclosure and records of internal communications, members of the DOGE team asked that their activities not be logged on the system and then appeared to try to cover their tracks behind them, turning off monitoring tools and manually deleting records of their access — evasive behavior that several cybersecurity experts interviewed by NPR compared to what criminal or state-sponsored hackers might do.
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This is alarming

According to the disclosure, someone had disabled controls that would prevent insecure or unauthorized mobile devices from logging on to the system without the proper security settings. There was an interface exposed to the public internet, potentially allowing malicious actors access to their systems. Internal alerting and monitoring systems were found to be manually turned off. Multifactor authentication was disabled.
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"If he didn't know the backstory, any [chief information security officer] worth his salt would look at network activity like this and assume it's a nation-state attack from China or Russia," said Jake Braun, a former White House cyber official.

In fact, in the minutes after DOGE accessed the NLRB's systems, someone with an IP address in Russia started trying to log in, according to Berulis' disclosure. Those attempts were blocked, but they were especially alarming. Whoever was attempting to log in was using one of the newly created DOGE accounts — and the person had the correct username and password, according to Berulis.
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But this is likely the root of it.

Elon Musk's businesses are the subject of NLRB investigations​

There are multiple ongoing cases involving the NLRB and companies controlled by Musk. After a group of former SpaceX employees lodged a complaint with the NLRB, lawyers representing SpaceX, some of whom were recently hired into government jobs, filed suit against the NLRB. They argued that the agency's structure is unconstitutional.
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It's a sad time to have insight

buckle up

We will need to hit rock bottom so hard that the quislings mourn​
before we can turn America around.​

Good news is that Trump turned on the turbo boost for our descent.
 
Of course DOGE is stealing sensitive information, it's probably the one thing it does efficiently. DOGE is, and has been, a scam from the start.
 
Simon W. Moon said:
It's a sad time to have insight

buckle up

We will need to hit rock bottom so hard that the quislings mourn​
before we can turn America around.​

Good news is that Trump turned on the turbo boost for our descent.
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Wait? ...A conservative against the Trumper? amiondrugz?
 
Musk has no loyalty to the US and like Trump he's looking out for his own personal interests.
Trump gave him the green light to infiltrate the agencies that were investigating Musk for various violations and illegalities.
It's also no secret that Musk had direct contact with Putin right before Trump took office so that raises national security concerns as Musk has the green light to access the most sensitive information in various American governmental agencies.
 
There is no one involved with MAGA that is not completely corrupt. It is a criminal enterprise. Every single person Trump selected to be in any capacity had to be corrupt. All of this is of course enabled by the MAGA voters themselves. Where all of the worst Americans gathered into one political party where there applaud the very things that if done by the other party, they would go nuts over.
The first rule of MAGA Club is "you have to be corrupt".
The second rule of MAGA Club is "you have to be corrupt".
 
HenryChinaski said:

I listened to this guy this morning. He stated that once DOGE had top access, logins were coming in from Russian IP addresses and massive amounts of data was being downloaded then deleted.
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One would hope not BUT...

Given the way the Trump Administration and particularly Musk are behaving they have no one but themselves to blame for the room that exists for this kind of speculation.
 
Simon W. Moon said:

I Miss Republicans.

No, seriously. Remember Republicans? Sober men in suits, pipes, who'd nod thoughtfully over their latest tract on market-driven fiscal conse...
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So do I.

Gone is the larger tent. No room for social moderates in my GOP. A Nelson Rockefeller, an actual Liberal Republican, he would be dragged out back and shot these days. Yet he was a Party choice to be VP when Ford ascended the Presidency. Imagine, the GOP choosing a liberal for VP.

My former Party doesn't exist anymore.
 
ModernDiogenes said:
So do I.

Gone is the larger tent. No room for social moderates in my GOP. A Nelson Rockefeller, an actual Liberal Republican, he would be dragged out back and shot these days. Yet he was a Party choice to be VP when Ford ascended the Presidency. Imagine, the GOP choosing a liberal for VP.

My former Party doesn't exist anymore.
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The current demographic of GOP constituents appears to be made up of of every past guest and audience member of the Jerry Springer show.
 
Deuce said:
Elon Musk is a traitor.
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And Trump is a Russian asset. between the two of them, America is being taken over by Putin. I have no doubt that Trump has always been in the tank with Putin.

Knowing exactly what the end goal is hard to know. It will become clearer with time.
 
It's amazing how all maga roads lead to Putin.

 
Add the DOGE subhumans to the group of people that need to face trials.
 
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