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  • nutsack@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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    2 years ago

    is this seriously it? 26 people are supposed to know enough about the inner workings of all these departments to be able to fire staff?

    there is not even an attempt to appear competent

  • perestroika@lemm.eedeleted by creator
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    2 years ago

    It is interesting that Reddit took it upon themselves to remove it. They are government employees, those aren’t their private addresses, but end with “.gov”. This seems to be public data.

    • pyre@lemmy.world
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      2 years ago

      but it’s fascism time; bootlickers gonna bootlick. gotta protect the fascists from judgment by the people. expect less and less transparency moving forward, all sorts of public information getting concealed, and both mainstream media and social media corporations helping them.

    • ugh@lemmy.world
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      2 years ago

      The addresses were originally obtained through a Freedom of Information request, so yes, 100% public information.

  • WorldsDumbestMan@lemmy.today
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    2 years ago

    Ok, so if the entire world turns into a dictatorship, with no free countries. Seriously, who will even want to live in it? How long until the population just de-pops itself?

    • Bigfoot@lemm.ee
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      2 years ago

      What people want will have little to do with it, unfortunately. The “hope” is that contraception bans combined with misleading/nonexistent sex ed will maintain a population.

    • orize@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      2 years ago

      We’re already there?

      I am 31 years old. A lot of my friends aren’t chasing partners, yet those who do don’t really want to make babies due to the long array of problems affecting quality of life.

      • varyingExpertise@feddit.orgEnglish
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        2 years ago

        Historically, people have made babies under much more dire circumstances and some of them made it through so we’re here today. I don’t feel like having kids either, I know, but I think this sentiment comes from a luxurious position.

        • Pyr@lemmy.ca
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          2 years ago

          Despite dire circumstances those people might have had hope for the future

          • varyingExpertise@feddit.orgEnglish
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            2 years ago

            My mother was born in a basement during the bombardments of Dresden while the house above them was burning. Her mother had barely made it out of the second floor with burning phosphorus running down the walls. At this point, my grandparents had been on the road for quite a while, narrowly escaping the Russian front, starting with leaving behind every single thing they owned at their farm estate in Silesia. They had nothing but their clothes on their back and they already experienced, that nobody wanted anything to do with the refugees from the east.

            My inconveniences are mild, compared to that. They are significant for me, but historically, we’re still at an all time high compared to our ancestors, unless you have old money in your bloodline.

        • klu9@lemmy.caEnglish
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          2 years ago

          Historically, people didn’t have easy access to multiple forms of birth control.

          But then they’ve already started working on that: Dobbs, period policing, “NO CONDOMS FOR GAZA!!!”

    • thespcicifcocean@lemmy.world
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      2 years ago

      Could be anything from on entry point on a phishing campaign to simply flooding their inbox with useless shit

      Edit

      Also, they likely use exchange, so if you were to spoof their email@ domain.onmicrosoft.com address, you could really trick people into thinking it was an official email from any of those addresses

      • I_Has_A_Hat@lemmy.world
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        2 years ago

        These are all on the same domain. I guarantee you they have extensive spam filters in place. “Flooding their inbox” will do nothing as the messages won’t even go to their inbox.

      • ReallyActuallyFrankenstein@lemmynsfw.comEnglish
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        2 years ago

        To save everyone time, here’s a draft set of productivity bullets for “turtle tester”:

        • Conducted thorough evaluations of turtle shell durability and structural integrity under various simulated environmental conditions.
        • Monitored and recorded turtle behavior to assess mobility and adaptability in controlled habitats.
        • Ensured all testing procedures adhered to ethical standards and guidelines for animal welfare.
        • Collaborated with team members to analyze data and improve testing methodologies for accuracy and efficiency.
        • Prepared detailed weekly reports summarizing findings and providing actionable recommendations for ongoing research.

        It’s important Elon Musk knows these things.

        • Rose@lemmy.world
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          2 years ago

          Elon Musk strikes me as an individual who doesn’t like turtles at all. He is therefore cursed, and shall never see the light of Heaven.

    • JackFrostNCola@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      2 years ago

      With a quick google, what are the chances that erm71 is code for “Elon Reeve Musk 1971”.
      There no way that a tech savvy individual would do something as simple as use his name and DOB for usernames and email addresses… Whats his password “teslarulez1971!”?

      • CoffeeJunkie@lemmy.cafeEnglish
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        2 years ago

        And why not? You forget there is beauty in brevity.

        A breach is a breach is a breach is a breach. You’d be criticizing his choice whether it was 5 simple characters or 500. When you K.I.S.S. it makes it easier to remember AND quicker to enter, access. I had to choose a password for work once, and I made it a little complex…work constantly logged me out 🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄…I had to enter that stupid fucking password so many fucking times, yes, it was secure. It was also DUMB and FRUSTRATING. Next 3 passwords were far simpler to repeatedly type in; I learned my lesson.

        Same with Apple always auto-generating stupid passwords, I hope you never have to type them in! It’s just dumb, as illustrated by XKCD.

        XKCD also has a suggestion for strong, memorable, easy passwords.

        Be smart. Make life simple. Don’t do stupid things. 🫡

        • SabinStargem@lemmings.worldEnglish
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          2 years ago

          My rule: If I can’t easily write nor remember a daily password, it is crap. My strong passwords are kept in a offline password manager, which has a relatively weak master password in the vein of “R!seaboveit@ll”. Not ideal, but at least a human can type it.

          The real danger is going to be websites leaking or sharing the individual password it is given. So long as no one knows your (offline) manager’s pass, the threat can be cordoned off. Unfortunately, we can expect the integration of AI into OS ecosystems to make that method vulnerable. Say, for example, Microsoft’s Copilot or Google’s Android.

          • CoffeeJunkie@lemmy.cafeEnglish
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            2 years ago

            Ha, son of a bitch. That is almost exactly what I do. 😆

            There are always vulnerabilities; you can’t make things truly secure, you only make them less insecure.

            All my passwords are longer & stronger, XKCD method, easy to read & type. Granted I don’t have Apple or my password manager generating gibberish passwords for me, takes 20 seconds each, I think them up. Maybe you should try it, too, idk. Leave the gibberish behind. I’m so glad I did.

      • Dashi@lemmy.world
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        2 years ago

        I’m sure that is exactly what it means. The point was to hide it a little bit, it’s not the standard first.last of everyone else but to make it still uniquely identifiable as musk. It’s not a completely unheard of practice to hide potential high spam targets. The goal isn’t to completely hide, just make it slightly harder to find

        • brygphilomena@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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          2 years ago

          This is why scraping LinkedIn works so well. Using the consistent email format gets you to your target easily. I’ve used it to get the contact info of the CTO of American Airlines before (his auto-reply included his cell number.)

          • Dashi@lemmy.world
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            2 years ago

            No it does not. Neither does having a password as they can be leaked or cracked or who knows what. Turning off tcmp echo on your router won’t stop all bad actors but it will stop some. All security practices are just small steps to make it slightly harder for bad actors.

            • pivot_root@lemmy.world
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              2 years ago

              There is no such thing as perfect security, but there’s a big difference between trying to obscure something confidential between two parties (a password) and trying to obscure information that by design must be shared with other parties (an email address).

              Outside of diligently using disposable alias addresses, obscuring an email is an exercise in futility. The biggest point of failure in security is the human, and all it takes is a single person to leak it. With all the people that need to communicate with Musk over email, the opportunity for that to happen is far higher than the chance of something like someone successfully cracking a hash.

              • Dashi@lemmy.world
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                2 years ago

                I 100% agree with you. But I’ll also admit that I email people ALL the time and I have no idea what their email alias is. I just hit reply.

                I absolutely agree with you that even with a rotation musk’s email alias will get leaked. I’m just agreeing with you that it was security through obscurification and it would have worked if one of the emails got leaked. A thousand people would have tried variations of elon.musk@ i am willing to bet none of them would have tried erm71@

                And let’s face it that man has an auto forward on his email lmao

  • Clbull@lemmy.world
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    2 years ago

    [Removed by Reddit]

    Of course Steve Cuckman would be the first to try and cover this up.