Exclusive: Musk aides lock government workers out of computer systems at US agency, sources say

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23. About that "something...afoot," don't get me started. My 'baseless' theory, based on Musk's Starlink shenanigans with

Ukraine and Russia...

There's both a public face and a classified status in Starlink's actual internal operations and uses.
There's also the upload & download ratio where the uploads are slow but downloads are superfast. According to Starlink specs, the typical upload to download data ratio is around 1:5 to 1:10, meaning for every 1 MB of data you upload, you can expect to download between 5 and 10 MB. Starlink can upload/download any amount of code, data, HTML and text.

The ratio is relevant, since the link also reports...

Enterprise Human Resources Integration, which contains dates of birth, Social Security numbers, appraisals, home addresses, pay grades and length of service of government workers, the officials said.
"We have no visibility into what they are doing with the computer and data systems," one of the officials said. "That is creating great concern. There is no oversight. It creates real cybersecurity and hacking implications."
Officials affected by the move can still log on and access functions such as email but can no longer see the massive datasets that cover every facet of the federal workforce.

The implications are many. Off the top here are a couple...
-- oligarch Musk uses his satellites to obtain data he couldn't otherwise obtain through official govt channels, which he could then download to...? in exchange for...?
-- oligarch Musk is subject to oversight from 11 other U.S. agencies, from which he can also obtain data from after closing access to their senior officials...

We're not even close to mapping the uses of this government oligarch Musk can make toward his obtaining global power over the next 2-4 years, though the NYT gives us a limited picture of governmental investigations into Musk's companies.

Graph from the linked article



Just a theory, I know. MSNBC has shown 11 governmental oversight agencies whose investigations of Musk companies could lend credibility to the above, unless/until the oligarch's felon tool in the WH shuts them down.

All these probable scenarios notwithstanding, yes, something real bad is afoot.