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I'm possibly more worried about what he didn't destroy at this point. What's gone will at least be rebuilt largely from scratch by people that care about restoring those institutions.
My huge worry now is what backdoors are now in systems like social security that impacts us all and we may not find out about for a long time. How much identity theft and scamming will go on now that outside actors likely have access to some or all of that data?
https://www.npr.org/2025/04/15/nx-s1-5355896/doge-nlrb-elon-musk-spacex-security
Every. Fucking. Thing that doge touched has been backdoored to Russia. Doge is a front to get sensitive information to the Kremlin. Elon is a fucking traitor.
Yes, exactly, and once I read this yesterday I allowed myself to rule out that I was just thinking the worst.
I think I got this link from some Lemmy post yesterday, and I don't like that I don't know the source, but it seems to fit what is being talked about in regular mainstream reporting.
The whistleblower and his lawyer were on Rachel Maddow if you want a more reputable source. He also said that they taped a picture of him walking his dog to his door that was taken via drone as a sort of threat.
https://youtu.be/DLPL0MZ7aVQ
Appreciate that! Was good to hear it right from them.
We will need a whole new SSA computer system, just to kill this question dead. Same goes for EVERY department. Some 20 years from now, I guess DOGE would have fulfilled its original mission of updating American computer infrastructure, in the most stupid and malicious way possible.
SS numbers seemed compromised enough pre-Musk. I feel we should all get a new one that isn't just tossed blindly onto any form we have to fill out on a daily basis.
Agreed.
CGP Grey: Your social security card is insecure.
They increased the budget of the Pentagon. You should be worried about where the funds are being moved-to
The military budget doesn't seem to have gone up by anything that hasnt been trending the last decade or 2, and despite all the talk about going to fight other countries, I don't think there is enough support for anything other than Iran, and even that I dont think would be done directly by the US military.
I do worry more about a more internally agro surveillance state, but with facial recognition and a camera on every doorbell, I think we've already long traded privacy for security. I keep learning about previous rebellions and having covert places to gather, plan, and stage have really been crucial, and I don't know how one does that in the modern world.
You're being defeatist. There's not cameras everywhere. There are loads of blind spots, even in major cities.
It's a fact that the majority of square feet in the US has places where there are no cameras compared to where there are cameras.
There are groups that map this. You can help identity the cameras on OSM.
I don't feel defeatist. I think my feelings on America as a whole are higher than many I've been seeing here. But tech has come a long way since a lot of these types of movements have taken place.
I love getting inspiration from people like the Maroons the bands of people hiding out in huge areas of Appalachia before the Civil War and others, but stuff like thermal optics and night vision and whatever other stuff the military and even local police likely have these days is pretty intimidating. It's also way quicker and stealthier to deploy. There's license plate readers that can grab the plates of anyone driving to a protest and databases of faces, etc.
I'm not as tech savvy as maybe a lot of you are so I don't know real life limitations of all this stuff or how to avoid it, and I just keep it in mind.
Use drones. Use public transportation. Use cash. Use Tor.
The power has always been asymmetric, but many advancements in technology actually help resistance of the oppressed more than the oppressors.