3d ago

Federal workers sue to disconnect DOGE server

www.wired.com Federal Workers Sue to Disconnect DOGE Server

Two federal workers, citing reports that Elon Musk’s associates are operating an illegally connected email server at OPM, seek a restraining order.

Summary

Federal employees have filed a class action lawsuit seeking a temporary restraining order to disconnect a server allegedly installed illegally at the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) by associates of Elon Musk.

The lawsuit claims the server, connected without required privacy assessments, risks exposing government employees’ data.

The server is linked to the Trump administration’s plan to downsize the federal workforce.

If the motion is granted, the administration's "deferred resignation program" could be delayed.

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Sue?! JUST FUCKING DO IT jesusfuckingchrist we are way beyond the point of asking.
- Just aks the server directly. Aks it right in the power cord and then aks the hard drive. Aks it over and over
  
  I cant tell if your saying it as 'ask' or 'axe'
- I heard the DOGE crew threatened to call the US Marshals if they weren't given access.
  
  Make them do it. The US Marshals should have resisted also, as DOGE is illegal.

This is going to make the past OPM hack look minor in comparison.
- Hell, the massive communications hack the US faced from China few months back looks like childs play compared to this.
  
  You mean the one that the DoJ was investigating until Trump came in and squashed it?

Republicans do something blatantly illegal
"Surely this time the law will do something about it. Let's do nothing and wait for the courts to take care of this in a timely manner."

Yo bro just unplug that shit wtf?
- You think they haven't tried that? If it was that simple it wouldn't have gotten plugged in in the first place.
  It's monitored. You need to stop Musk and his lap dogs, who are backed by the DOJ and POTUS himself.
  Everyone that's put up resistance has been walked out of the building and put on leave/fired.
  
  If you're going to get fired anyway, you might as well throw it off the roof. A bit more effective of a delay than the 30 seconds it would take for someone to plug the power cable back in.
  
  See if they can walk 100 of them out at the same time.
  
  Damn, if only we had the 2nd amendment.
  
  "oops I must have bumped the power cable while working on the server next to it, my bad"
- What makes you think anyone that would be willing to do that has physical access? I don't have access to the server room at the office I work in, and we don't even keep any really important data there. It's mostly just networking equipment. Anything really sensitive is kept on cloud-based resources that are housed at an off-site facility that is only physically accessible by the company that owns and runs it.
  
  A sledgehammer can fix most problems
- At least set it's port in the switch to 10/100 half duplex.
  
  Force PoE

I know he called it the Department Of Government Efficiency for the acronym, but God damnit how nazi-ish does it sound anyway?
- Someone on Reddit suggested the origin for Musk is this. Which is a much more sinister intention.
  
  Let's be real, musk is an absolute asshole but he's not cultured or informed enough to do that

I'm not advising a federal worker bring a sledgehammer to work. It might fall and break a server.
- And definitely don't accidentally spill water on it, that would be a big oopsie
  
  Ah yes, be sure to be very careful with your hot cup of iron filings around that server.
- It was a bit of percussive maintenance, I swear.

Fucking just pour goddamn water on it or shortcircuit the goddamn thing
- Honestly, the way some servers are, a swift kick or a drop off the shelf will do the job!

If he really did this that shit will be hacked so fast lol that's not going to look good
- Do you think he cares if he looks good?
  We're way past shit like that mattering. It's a straight up fascist power grab. He's openly saying to ignore all laws and do whatever they want.
- It was already “hacked”, in the sense that it allowed anyone to bypass the government employees’ spam filters. All you have to do is spoof the sending address (which is laughably easy) and you can @everyone straight to 15000 federal employees’ inboxes.

Suing requires laws. And we're in lawless territory right now.
- Right? Like I'm getting raped so I'm going to politely ask the rapist to please stop or ill call the police. What the ever loving fuck.

They probably already have offsite backups of all kinds of shit. I know it needs to be shut down anyway, but damage is done.

Just pour some fucking RC Cola or Mt dew on the damned thing. Either one would be fine, RC for sticky Dew for eating away at everything.

I suppose that’s better than nothing, but our legal system looks quite like Swiss cheese these days. These lawsuits can go away on a whim.

I would've stomped on it like "oh dear, what I've done? I really can't control my feet. Now the disk and cpu are in shambles"

https://archive.is/hfohk

Those federal workers? "Jane Does 1 and 2."
Bitches getting shit done.
Hopefully.

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