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TheBlackAdder

(29,981 posts)
Sun Mar 9, 2025, 09:10 AM Mar 2025

DOGE: What's One of the First Things Hackers Do? Install Backdoor Access Points

I'm sure that whatever those DOGE hackers are doing, installing backdoors is one of them.

They are under pressure to obtain data, but if they are blocked, they will need backdoors into the computer systems to gain access to continue the pilfering. Granted, they have all the passwords of the users, or reset them to something they know--so those are all compromised. But, if the network was shutdown and all of the passwords reset, once the system is re-enabled, they would need ways to enter undetected.

One of the problems with backdoors, it that eventually other hackers or nation state actors find out about them.

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DOGE: What's One of the First Things Hackers Do? Install Backdoor Access Points (Original Post) TheBlackAdder Mar 2025 OP
I think his plan is to install his own software at all gov't agencies giving him ultimate control Intractable Mar 2025 #1
It's all infected. nt miyazaki Mar 2025 #2
Once they had physical access, it was all over. defacto7 Mar 2025 #3
Musk did write backdoors to some agencies TBD, but lets deduce what we know... MartyTheGreek Mar 2025 #4

Intractable

(1,827 posts)
1. I think his plan is to install his own software at all gov't agencies giving him ultimate control
Sun Mar 9, 2025, 09:19 AM
Mar 2025

of all functions.

So, even when Trump leaves office, Musk will still have control.

He might not care about Tesla's stock losing value because he is gaining access to the finances of the US. He's going to take our real money and replace it with crypto.

He talks about running everything with AI. Sounds like the beginnings of "skynet."

Musk may be the most dangerous problem the world has ever faced. He'll kill us all before climate change will.

defacto7

(14,162 posts)
3. Once they had physical access, it was all over.
Sun Mar 9, 2025, 09:57 AM
Mar 2025

A backdoor can be software or even flashed into the hardware undetected. The only trustworthy way to fix it is to trash the entire computer system and start from scratch without backups. There's no way to know if it would be necessary across systems, but it's the only way to be sure. Physical access ends the assurance that the system, as it is, will ever be viable again.

MartyTheGreek

(732 posts)
4. Musk did write backdoors to some agencies TBD, but lets deduce what we know...
Sun Mar 9, 2025, 10:01 AM
Mar 2025

- It was Musk that overrode the OPM email server and sent out the Fork in the Road email. The same thing that he did at X-Twitter to cut staff. Now, Trumps says it's up to Agency Heads to determine civil servant cuts. Did Rubio cancel the $400 mil Cyber Truck order for the State Dept?

-Musk dragged X-Twitter down to the ground and a poor investment just so he could have a MAGA echo chamber and safe space.

-Musk's DOGE team are all hackers and have records for doing so and another was awarded for it while one other is a known Rusky hacker teen.

-Musk owns a Server Farm or two, and Musk has AI programs and agents we know about and with Backdoors I'm sure he's gonna ask Grock II to write a massive Government database and program it to serve all agencies and their products and services and use AI to streamline it to eliminate jobs that are redundant, Musk would patent the program and lease it to Government or Monarchy whichever comes next. Knowing Musk, he would program the HR Agency to hire only loyalists and certain religions.

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