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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

(135,718 posts)
Mon Feb 10, 2025, 11:44 PM Feb 2025

Musk surrogate "Big Balls" has State Department email address

A 19-year-old acolyte of Elon Musk known online as “Big Balls” is listed as having taken on a new role at the State Department, raising concerns among some diplomats about his potential access to sensitive information and the growing reach of his tech billionaire boss into America’s diplomatic apparatus, said U.S. officials familiar with the matter who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss a sensitive issue.

Edward Coristine, who briefly worked for Musk’s brain-chip start-up, Neuralink, is posted as a senior adviser to the State Department’s Bureau of Diplomatic Technology, a critical hub for data - both sensitive and nonsensitive, officials said. Coristine, who also holds positions at the U.S. DOGE Service and the Office of Personnel Management, has attracted significant attention across Washington for his edgy online persona and the relative lack of experience he brings to his new federal roles.

But his new position could give him visibility into far more than just tech.

Some U.S. officials expressed alarm about Coristine’s new perch at the bureau, which serves as the IT department for Washington’s diplomatic apparatus. All of the department’s IT and data management functions were centralized at the bureau during an overhaul before President Donald Trump returned to office, making it a treasure trove of information.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/19-old-musk-surrogate-state-184000435.html

Big balls, tiny dick.

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jls4561

(3,115 posts)
3. Someone should find that address and post it on the most vile, Nazi sympathizer website with
Mon Feb 10, 2025, 11:55 PM
Feb 2025

A message that he’s a DEI hire and we (Nazis) are trying to drive him out of government.

neohippie

(1,267 posts)
5. What about National Security
Tue Feb 11, 2025, 11:46 AM
Feb 2025

There is no way these Musk bros have proper security clearance to have this kind of access to all of these departments especially confidential and sensitive State Department communications

Once you let them in they will find ways to subvert normal security and lock out the people who would normally audit access etc...

Evolve Dammit

(21,777 posts)
9. That works. As long as it is complete destruction with no toxic/corrosive earth/space-trash remnants??
Tue Feb 11, 2025, 05:24 PM
Feb 2025
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