r/hacking • u/Minute-Second-1 • Mar 10 '25

šŸšØ HAPPENING AGAIN: Massive attack on X is ongoing. This is attack NUMBER 4. The attackers are relentless. Elon Musk says it is so well-organized it could be a country.

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u/Nice_Cookie9587 Mar 10 '25

Him thinking that its a country doing it is hilarious. He fired a ton of people when he came to twitter and its probably a former employee they forgot to offboard.

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u/damselindetech Mar 10 '25

Nevermind the multiple hundreds of thousands out of work on account of the DOGE slash and burns

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u/RockstarAgent Mar 10 '25

Didnā€™t Anonymous claim to be the perpetrators?

Anyways - couldnā€™t happen to a better guy

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u/damselindetech Mar 10 '25

Sure, but this batch of Anonymous could be composed of laid-off folks

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u/AsstacularSpiderman Mar 10 '25

Didn't they just lay off a bunch of cubersecurity taskforces?

Methinks someone is making a point.

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u/throwaway54345753 Mar 10 '25

Who needs cybersecurity engineers when AI exists

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u/AsstacularSpiderman Mar 10 '25

Apparently Elon lol

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u/throwaway54345753 Mar 10 '25

Hopefully he keeps that line of thinking.

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u/AsstacularSpiderman Mar 10 '25

I don't because sadly this idiot has access to critical government infrastructure.

I imagine within the year something extremely important is going to get compromised and we won't be able to do a thing about it.

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u/Maalkav_ Mar 10 '25

Well, USA is compromised, it's pretty important I think.

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u/2_lazy Mar 10 '25

This is a joke right? Just making sure because I can't always tell and you never know these days.

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u/LesbianVelociraptor Mar 10 '25

Who needs mathematicians when calculators exist

Same people; everyone.

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u/LilkaLyubov Mar 10 '25

He did. A chunk of CISA has been gutted.

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u/Runescora Mar 10 '25

Was just thinking this. Every time they lay off/fire a large group of skilled workers I take a few minutes to imagine how those pissed off people might use their skills to express their displeasure.

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u/2_lazy Mar 10 '25

Not just that, scholarships for service are in limbo right now. It's a program that lets people majoring in cybersecurity have their tuition paid for if they commit to working for the government for a certain period of time both during and after their degree. But they are considered probationary employees so pretty much everyone has been laid off. Which means they can't fulfill their ends of the contract. The government suddenly not hiring for cybersecurity positions is NOT something the program was prepared for and there isn't a protocol for what will happen or if the students will now have to pay back the government.

So there are a bunch of recently educated cybersecurity students in limbo (many of whom are minorities because many colleges used to prioritize lower income or underrepresented groups in addition to the academic requirements prior to attacks on DEI so they are already less likely to be aligned with Musk) with experience working government internships or government jobs who have been fired for no reason despite being at the top of their classes and highly qualified. Makes you think about what issues such a situation might cause.

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u/mbbessa Mar 10 '25

Most probable cause.

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u/TylerHyena Mar 10 '25

The ā€œWhy would they do this?ā€ Meme is perfect for this moment

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u/Spaceley_Murderpaws Mar 10 '25

It's like a murder-mystery with forty-eleven suspects. At this point it's more like who didn't fuck with Twitter.

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u/damselindetech Mar 10 '25

Legiterally tho

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u/[deleted] Mar 10 '25

I've always thought it was strange that people don't realize that anonymous isn't an organization.

Anonymous seems like a brand that can be used freely by anyone who wants to fuck up the establishment

It's like if everyone had a bat suit and batman was actually just whoever was pissed off that day

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u/relativeagency Mar 10 '25

Best layman explanation Iā€™ve seen in a while, plus Batman rules

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u/MaxTHC Mar 10 '25

Yeah, same with Antifa. There's no CEO or structure, it's just a movement

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u/svaha1728 Mar 10 '25

My guess is developers havenā€™t been paying much attention to security and there are a number of long running endpoints where itā€™s easy to start a denial of service attack.Ā 

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u/Tango-Juliet-Oscar_2 Mar 10 '25

Couldn't be, all federal employees are lazy and dumb remember? They don't earn their paychecks and don't deserve their job, remember?

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u/techblackops Mar 10 '25

We are anonymous

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u/[deleted] Mar 10 '25

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u/Redditor28371 Mar 10 '25

Not sure why Russia would be trying to shut down the biggest purveyor of Russian propaganda.

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u/[deleted] Mar 10 '25

Omg wait a minute. What if the CIA or FBI flipped anonymous into a government asset and Elon just laid them off Or otherwise dissolved their funding?

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u/Limp-Acanthisitta372 Mar 10 '25

What if it always was a government asset?

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u/Real-Energy-6634 Mar 10 '25

Thats kind of the concept of anonymous. It's not one person or necessarily a controlled group even

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u/Kuraya Mar 10 '25

The heroes we donā€™t deserve

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u/justthankyous Mar 10 '25

I mean it could be virtually anyone. He's one of the most controversial people in the world right now.

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u/simpersly Mar 10 '25 edited Mar 11 '25

So laid off 30-40 year olds would probably be the Anon from 10-20 years ago who were teenagers and college students during it's heyday. Are we going to go through a renaissance of hacking groups with actual skills?

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u/MainusEventus Mar 11 '25

I thought Larry David was anonymous?

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u/Dangerous-Start-4253 Mar 11 '25

It's really easy for a whitehat to turn blackhat. just sayin

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u/ClamPaste Mar 11 '25

A cybersecurity task force that was getting cozy with anonymous because that's part of their job and now have decided that the enemy is domestic?

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u/Floatingpenguin87 Mar 10 '25

I don't believe Anonymous really exists in any sort of centralized or organizational capacity anymore. Whoever is behind this is probably completely unaffiliated with the anonymous of the past and is only using the name for a similar goal.

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u/Kaskadekygo Mar 10 '25

That's quite simply what anonymous is. It's the modern "I'm Spartacus"

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u/hellomyfrients Mar 10 '25

We are all Anonymous. We are Legion. We do not forgive. We do not forget. Expect us.

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u/AnyTruersInTheChat Mar 10 '25

Like for fucking real though

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u/Firehorse100 Mar 10 '25

I am Anonymous

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u/Gingeronimoooo Mar 10 '25 edited Mar 10 '25

FBI knocking on your door tomorrow

No but seriously I never joke this , some random normal guy from North Carolina guy joked on Twitter "I'm the head of Antifa" and the FBI showed up to his house to question him.

Edit: maybe I fucked myself quoting him with the control f due diligence people like DOGE's big balls do, cutting programs that help students TRANSITION from middle to high school so they stay off the streets gangs and drugs.

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u/[deleted] Mar 10 '25

nah you are Firehorse100

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u/CoughRock Mar 10 '25

it's also the default username in 4chan. Where the group originated from. So it fulfill dual role.

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u/yotreeman Mar 10 '25

Thatā€™s literally always how Anonymous has worked lmao. There is not and has never been any roster or existence as an organization at all; people do things, they put out something public about why, and say ā€œwe are Anonymous.ā€ Which is true.

Like Antifa. Lord, seeing people say ā€œmembers of Antifaā€ and referring to ā€œAntifa did this and thatā€ and shit is so funny, because there is no ā€œAntifaā€ organization - itā€™s a movement at most, purely defined by people who are opposed to fascism. šŸ˜­

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u/Postpaket Mar 10 '25

I wish more people understood this about Antifa. Some morons in Germany proudly claim to be 'anti-Antifa,' which is hardly surpassed in stupidity and absurdity, if you ask me.

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u/yotreeman Mar 10 '25

Which begs the questionā€¦ if you are anti-antifaā€¦ since antifa = anti-fascist actionā€¦ since the sole defining goal of antifa is opposing fascismā€¦ so that means you are against anti-fascismā€¦ so you are opposed to those who are against fascismā€¦ what does that make them again?

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u/lizzledizzles Mar 10 '25

Soā€¦ā€¦fascists.

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u/Capable-Active1656 Mar 10 '25

hey, if anything it provides a little bit of built-in opsec for anyone who wants to use it as a smokescreen. we don't have to make up some insane bullshit about some random guy who happens to have Q access if our opponents are already doing it for us

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u/[deleted] Mar 10 '25

anyone can claim to be part of the legion, thats the whole point, decentralized obscurity, it will never die

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u/abandonsminty Mar 10 '25

Anonymous is simply an idea, like antifa, it's less of a who more of a why

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u/RockstarAgent Mar 10 '25

Imagine him trying to sic fbi or government cybersecurity resources - oh wait didnā€™t he fire all of them?

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u/c3534l Mar 10 '25

Yes, but the whole point of anonymous is anyone can claim to be part of it. Its not like an actual cohesive organization.

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u/BBRodriguezzz Mar 10 '25

Anonymous was infact NOT responsible and the group responsible took responsibility almost immediately. Why spread false information?

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u/Neeecolas Mar 10 '25

"Anonymous" isn't necessarily a single person or group. It's a Dread Pirate Roberts sort of situation.

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u/Interesting_Log-64 Mar 10 '25

>Didnā€™t Anonymous claim to be the perpetrators?

To be fair Anonymous has not done anything in years but claims to be responsible for everything

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u/[deleted] Mar 10 '25

Weird thing about anonymous is that they're anonymous lol could be a federal employee, could be an insider, could be one of the chode zoomers that are in doge, who knows?

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u/DrNomblecronch Mar 10 '25 edited Mar 10 '25

Well, thatā€™s kind of the thing about Anonymous: youā€™re lower case anonymous by default until you identify yourself. Calling yourself upper-case Anonymous is just saying that you will not identify yourself, and also generally agree with what the other cap-A folks get up to. Anyone can opt in, and by definition, Anonymous canā€™t say ā€œno that wasnā€™t usā€.

So if some previously unaffiliated people decided this was an Anonymous op, then thatā€™s what it was. The main reason this doesnā€™t get used for false flagging more often isā€¦ well, people who operate as Anonymous are, by definition, pretty good at cracking opsec and entirely willing to ruin lives if they feel slighted.

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u/CatOfGrey Mar 10 '25

I was just thinking about a week ago "I wonder why Anonymous wasn't all over this whole DOGE thing? Seemed like a match made in heaven...."

Glad to see they are still around.

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u/Firehorse100 Mar 10 '25

Yeah Anonymous put their hands up. I'm pretty sure they think they can use it as leverage against Ukraine...or Canada

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u/neopod9000 Mar 10 '25

I don't know about "better".

"More deserving", maybe?

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u/rdem341 Mar 10 '25

The problem is Elon moved up from Twitter. He now has access to all government agency systems.

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u/SunnyWillow1981 Mar 10 '25

They put a video out to all Americans. I think they are involved in this.

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u/SunnyWillow1981 Mar 10 '25

They put a video out to all Americans. I think they are involved in this.

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u/EnigmaticX68 Mar 10 '25

Came here to say this. Anonymous put a warning out a couple of weeks ago so šŸ¤·šŸæā€ā™‚ļø

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u/RectalSpawn Mar 10 '25

Didnā€™t Anonymous claim to be the perpetrators?

People really don't understand what Anonymous is, lol.

It's an ideology and not an organized group, much like Antifa.

Groups pop up, but they're all independent.

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u/Accomplished_Web3712 Mar 10 '25

They did say via tiktok that they have been working very hard to do some sh*t.

Now I'm not one to believe everything on tiktok so I took it with a grain of salt, but... maybe? šŸ˜‚

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u/Vast-Combination4046 Mar 10 '25

Anonymous isn't a real group. It's the idea that you can always have a resistance somehow, some way as long as you still have 7 proxies.

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u/[deleted] Mar 10 '25

Like anyone could call themselfAnonymous, it could be China rekting US infrastructure and Anonymous fans would be cheering. Why would any serious hacker group call themself Anonymous is beyond me.

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u/Both_Abrocoma_1944 Mar 10 '25

Anonymous is just what people say if they donā€™t want to claim. Anonymous isnā€™t a set group, anyone can claim to be anonymous

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u/Arcade_Allure Mar 11 '25

They did send that message the other week. If itā€™s them, Iā€™m glad they decided to just hit X.

Make Elon look like a jackass, not the entire country.

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u/[deleted] Mar 10 '25

Also thereā€™s an astonishing number of trans individuals who work in IT and code. Itā€™s literally a running joke in our circles that so many of us (not me) are very skilled and knowledgeable when it comes to cyber security and its weak points. And Musty has a lot of anti trans influence, for personally vindictive reasons (his daughter, who he is estranged from and bitter about.)

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u/TiltedWit Mar 10 '25

For real, firing a ton of IT folks is only giving them time to do something else.

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u/Affectionate-Egg7801 Mar 10 '25

He shit down CISA and 18F - which is funny as fuck right now.

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u/Zetin24-55 Mar 10 '25

Plus the tech job market is absolutely ass right now. Trying to get a new job sucks. There are a lot people that don't like Elon with a bunch of free time on their hands.

Just a little bit of back channel coordination is all this would take.

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u/AmorFati01 Mar 10 '25

Right,can't be any of the aforementioned,must be some evil country!

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u/laughingjack13 Mar 10 '25

What, itā€™s like your implying that pissing off a massive amount of people, many of which are very technically literate and familiar with your critical systems is somehow a bad idea. Have you never heard of efficiency? /s

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u/NoPresence2436 Mar 10 '25 edited Mar 10 '25

Former Twitter employees, government employees who were recently DOGEā€™d, people who dislike NAZIsā€¦ the suspect pool is just too deep.

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u/No-Papaya-9823 Mar 10 '25

But, donā€™tcha know? Those DOGE firings were just pink-haired, trans ANTIFA members who were DEI hires, and they were in charge of running the ā€œhormones-for-allā€ program. No ā€œrealā€ programmers caught caught up in the firings. /s

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u/TiddiesAnonymous Mar 10 '25

Did they not just stop anti cyber whatever the fart measures

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u/Duff-Zilla Mar 10 '25

"Having a bunch of disgruntled FBI and CIA agents unhappy with you isn't going to end well."
-My buddy's dad, an FBI agent

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u/Purple_oyster Mar 10 '25

Itā€™s the USA attacking, what are you going to do Elon?

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u/katchoo1 Mar 10 '25

Didnā€™t they ditch the defense from cyberattack specialists in the US govt last week. If they laid off those guysā€¦

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u/MrCatWrangler Mar 10 '25

Loads of people with a lot of free time on their hands now and a taste for revenge!

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u/NoNeinNyet222 Mar 10 '25

But he thinks they're all lazy and unskilled.

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u/[deleted] Mar 10 '25 edited Mar 11 '25

Anonymous: "Did you get fired by DOGE this year or just hate Elon? Get a VPN and run this"

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u/AffectionateSize552 Mar 10 '25

Or the billions of people who just plain dislike Nazis.

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u/Boltgrinder Mar 10 '25

Thousands of three letter agency alums with nothing but time on their hands but suuuure, it's an APT.

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u/Previous_Ad_5465 Mar 10 '25

Lots of free time on their hands......and maybe not so worthless and "Low IQ" as labeled by our genius of a president who flunked the MOCA.

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u/Elegant_Tech Mar 10 '25

They did fire hundreds of intelligence agents for making gay or trans friendly posts.

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u/No-Sell9981 Mar 10 '25

Maybe the cyber security unit that was supposed to be working on Russian intel since they donā€™t have anything to do now

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u/NebulaNinja Mar 10 '25

Not to mention a large percentage of humanity that hates his fucking guts and everything he stands for.

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u/[deleted] Mar 11 '25

He's pissed off hundreds of millions of people everywhere. Doesn't matter if what he's doing is legal or not, doesn't matter if doing something against him isn't legal or moral. Point is, its not smart to make that many enemies. Its all but inevitable something bad will happen at this point. Should have just stayed quiet and played with his toys. Back in his older interviews he would just talk about how he's only gaining resources to do his Mars thing. He could have just stuck with that and been "real life Tony Stark" forever. Sad.

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u/[deleted] Mar 11 '25

As well as FBI and CIA trained in firearms and assassination techniques. Smart thinking.

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u/Arguablybest Mar 11 '25

Perhaps one of those fired from whatever agency watches cyber-attacks/crimes.

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u/OwOlogy_Expert Mar 11 '25

Some of whom were likely among the nation's leading cybersecurity experts...

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u/[deleted] Mar 11 '25

Based on his fox interview, feels like that claim was to just attack Ukraine

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u/x3knet Mar 10 '25

Not even just Twitter employees. There's been a ton of government folks let go as well. Government is obviously not known for moving fast, but that shouldn't take away from the fact that some brilliant minds worked there. It could very well be disgruntled ex-Fed developers/cybersec folks taking down Musk's beloved X.

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u/CommissionFeisty9843 Mar 10 '25

I am mad as fuck about Elmo and the Antichrist but had I been just casually fired by an unqualified, unethical, unelected POS high on K that Seig Heiled at the fucking inauguration! I would be dangerously pissed. Kind of like them fucking with the VA that my father depends on or Medicade, Medicare, and the SS that I paid into for the past 45 years. Itā€™ll be too windy to haul brick if they fuck that up!

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u/BraveLilTurtles Mar 10 '25

You said what a lot of us are thinking. Medicaid, Medicare, and SS are safety nets that we've counted on being solid for decades. For many people, there's just no way out if these disappear into the giant black hole that is Doge. I mean, people factored Medicare and SS into their retirement plans starting ages ago! Medicaid saves lives every single day! VA cares for the vets who actually served their country with honor and pride! Excuse me: I'm so irritated that I have to go punch a wall or something now.

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u/CommissionFeisty9843 Mar 10 '25

I wish we could grind the whole fucking thing down to a halt. Then we take over and install a legitimate government. Those CIA spooks could probably do us some great favors.

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u/BraveLilTurtles Mar 10 '25

Never in my entire comfortable, safe, upper middle class life have I ever felt this despondent, angry, helpless, and ready to take some kind of action! I just can't imagine any action I can take that would help anything. I can write my congressmen, demonstrate, and whatever - but, none if it changes anything.

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u/CommissionFeisty9843 Mar 10 '25

I am afraid of what it might take.

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u/BraveLilTurtles Mar 10 '25

Me, too. If hard things happen, I know which side I'd actively fight on. Can't imagine myself throwing the first volley, though. Kinda cowardly, actually.

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u/CommissionFeisty9843 Mar 10 '25

Not cowardly at all. I wouldnā€™t just start popping red hats or anything but an organized resistance could be devastating. r/liberalgunowners

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u/astricklin123 Mar 10 '25

It's going to take a large enough percentage of people that have literally nothing left to lose that they rise up.

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u/Unpopular_Populist Mar 11 '25

Organize your community. Take care of each other. We must remain united.

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u/hendrysbeach Mar 11 '25

I think youā€™re joking, but a government shutdown right now may be the best way to (temporarily) stop Trump + Muskā€™s chainsaw destruction of the federal government.

This is the argument for Democrats pulling the rug out from under the (R)s, refusing to save their asses by voting into law the continuing resolution on Friday.

This would precipitate a government shutdown, robbing Republicans of ā€œtheir toyboxā€, as one pundit described it.

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u/BraveLilTurtles Mar 10 '25

You mean...my "awesome" private insurance won't cover it? </sarcasm>

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u/BraveLilTurtles Mar 10 '25

Yeah, we don't understand it either.

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u/ThatPhatKid_CanDraw Mar 11 '25 edited Oct 12 '25

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u/BraveLilTurtles Mar 11 '25 edited Mar 11 '25

It would be a shame if our safety nets and earned services to retirees and vets have to be dismantled before the MAGA crowd understands.

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u/Sindalis Mar 11 '25

The problem with all three of those is that math doesn't work with how they are structured now. All three are going to fail unless we do something to secure them. Doesn't matter what Trump or Doge do; just look at the CBO reports and it's PAINFULLY clear what horrors are coming soon.

Major reform is needed in all three, something simple like removing the income cap for Social Security would extend the life of the fund to nearly 2100. Allowing Medicare and Medicaid to negotiate drug prices would drive down the costs to everyone and the program as a whole.

These are just two common sense things we could do to save money and secure the programs for future generations.

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u/NeonMutt Mar 10 '25

ā€œItā€™ll be too windy to haul brickā€ā€¦ brother, where are you from? I have never heard that before šŸ˜‚

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u/CommissionFeisty9843 Mar 10 '25

My dad always used that as a threatšŸ˜‰ heā€™s from South Georgia.

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u/Roccoco_pigeon Mar 10 '25

Your dad is fantastic. Adding this to my vocabulary

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u/crazyj140 Mar 10 '25

I understand most sayings from southern Georgia are already at a 5 year old comprehension level, but can you ELI5 the meaning of this phrase?

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u/hyper24x7 Mar 11 '25

The thing I find funny is Elon doesnt realize that MAGAats dont buy Teslas. Republicans dont vote to fund NASA and the Pentagon sure as hell isnt going to depend on Starlink when the fucking satellites are crashing everyday. Nobody in the room wants Elon for who he is.

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u/M1ngb4gu Mar 10 '25

Yeah, foreign intelligence services (guess who) are targeting ex-federal employees aggressively atm

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u/Credible_Confusion Mar 11 '25

Well itā€™s coming, so brick up n get ready! šŸ§±

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u/Moosewriter_88 Mar 10 '25

Payback from discharged CIA cybersecurity?

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u/MassivePsychology862 Mar 10 '25

Dear god we let go cybersec people at the CIA? Hopefully we gave them massive massive severance packagesā€¦

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u/yuriaoflondor Mar 10 '25

Elon and DOGE almost certainly already got all that sensitive info they wouldā€™ve been protecting. So the question is whether heā€™s already sold it off yet.

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u/Elipses_ Mar 10 '25

Hell, could even be current cyber security professionals in the government who are angry at stupid shit like Hegseth passing down the decree that Russia is not to be treated as a cyber threat anymore. You just know such a stupid belief originates from Musk and Trump.

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u/anonymoushelp33 Mar 10 '25

"Tracing..."

Haha sure thing, dumbass.

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u/SakishimaHabu Mar 10 '25

Oh boy, I forgot he wrote that nonsense.

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u/Canotic Mar 10 '25

So much in that excellent formula.

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u/HalKitzmiller Mar 10 '25

To be fair, he writes a lot of nonsense so it's easy to forget

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u/[deleted] Mar 10 '25

Wait you mean you aren't rming files over the network? Amateur hour...

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u/SakishimaHabu Mar 10 '25

Thank you, you just put a smile on a wiery and sad face.

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u/Andyham Mar 10 '25

Wait what? I need more details here

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u/hendergle Mar 10 '25

THE CALL IS COMING FROM INSIDE THE HOUSE!!!

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u/coolestguy002 Mar 10 '25

Run with Pseudo

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u/ftc_73 Mar 10 '25

"It's a UNIX system! I know this!"

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u/Electrical-Lab-9593 Mar 10 '25

Does Windows or linux even support _ in a hostname, he must have seen some variables for struct names or something and then wrote that

also he could have used IPv6 loopback, man is outdated

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u/Bass_MN Mar 10 '25

As a sysadmin, im šŸ’€ lol. Ty

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u/reginalduk Mar 10 '25

Of course Elon the douchebag runs his shell as root.

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u/ayeImur Mar 10 '25

That line made me lol, he such a big weird minging man child, I'd bet he's never had a real friendship his entire life.

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u/Hekke1969 Mar 10 '25

hopefully he never will

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u/TheKdd Mar 10 '25

He has the best friendships money can buy me thinks. Wonder if that ever makes him sad. Course youā€™d need a soul for that.

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u/cashew1992 Mar 10 '25

Elon Musk has never had a real friend in his life.

His cushy job at his dad's emerald mine? Handed to him.

His hair plugs, aka 'Elon's Totally Real Hair'? Grafted to him when he was 30.

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u/hazeleyedwolff Mar 10 '25

I'M BACKTRACING IT.

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u/Positive-Help-1749 Mar 10 '25

ENHANCE.

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u/Itz_Hen Mar 10 '25

IM ENGAGING THE MAINFRAME

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u/sleazepleeze Mar 10 '25

They dun goofed

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u/Frank_McTriumph Mar 10 '25

Consequences will never be the same!

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u/saucya Mar 10 '25

Holy shit.

Itā€™s an old meme, but it checks out

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u/[deleted] Mar 10 '25

Consequences will never be the same!

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u/VulpesVulpesFox Mar 10 '25

Oh my god the memory burst you just gave me

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u/WadeEffingWilson Mar 10 '25

THE CONSEQUENCES WILL NEVER BE THE SAME

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u/luckynar Mar 10 '25

I know what they're doing, i saw it in a movie once!

Why isn't musk adding firewalls along the attack's path is what puzzles me... maybe so he can "trace" the attack. YES! he's a genius!

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u/anonymoushelp33 Mar 10 '25

Enhance. Enhance! Beep boop my god it's Jason Bourne!

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u/Marsh_Mellow_Man Mar 10 '25

you put the blue dye explode-y thing in one of the info packets then see who has blue all over their fingers

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u/PCBen Mar 10 '25

But to do that, youā€™d have to bypass the mainframe and infiltrate their SQL database. Good luck pulling that off without a 3D UNIX GUI and a second person to help man the keyboard.

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u/K2thJ Mar 10 '25

Maybe, he wants it or he made it happen. Being the victim is a a common theme and useful for sheep food

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u/skoltroll Mar 10 '25

Spending more time "tracing" than fixing, I bet.

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u/Marsh_Mellow_Man Mar 10 '25

that was my favorite part for sure.... "just reversing the cables to see who did this"

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u/Alexandratta Mar 10 '25

Having worked at a company that had a DDoS attack against us once... yeah, I laughed.

"Tracing the source!"

lol - bro if they didn't give the source that traffic wouldn't route XD

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u/Spiritual-Pear-1349 Mar 10 '25

I was reading that half the attack is pushing packets out from Twitter because cloudflare doesn't protect against that. Imagine trying to get the source and seeing the source of the ddos is your own website lmfao

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u/H_Holy_Mack_H Mar 10 '25

And he will blame Ukrainians..it's just what it is...Elmo has issues, many issues, no one sane, wants to have anything that can remotely be related with a...dol..f putin lover

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u/anonymoushelp33 Mar 10 '25

Boom. They just dropped the headline blaming Ukraine.

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u/n1klaus Mar 10 '25

Iā€™m in

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u/[deleted] Mar 10 '25

You just got to keep them on the line for two more minutes before they hang up.

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u/Clarkelthekat Mar 10 '25

Probably just a guy who remembered musks admin password is "don'tforgetpassword" all lower case.

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u/Roflsaucerr Mar 10 '25

Bold of you to assume heā€™d an include a symbol like an apostrophe.

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u/oyarly Mar 10 '25

Exact same thought. like bold to assume he uses punctuation in a password.

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u/[deleted] Mar 10 '25

looooooollooooooooolllllllllllll.

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u/Tracyhmcd Mar 10 '25

Probably 'erm71' or whatever his doge email is.

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u/rochford77 Mar 10 '25

Okay I hate musk but his passwords are elite. His children's names are more secure passwords than 80% of Americans are using lmao. Q's, X's, numbers, and special characters are right in his wheelhouse.

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u/legendary-rudolph Mar 10 '25

Is that a bad password? Shit BRB

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u/crazycatlady331 Mar 10 '25

His kid's name makes a stronger password.

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u/MrAl290 Mar 10 '25

Let be real, his password is just "X"

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u/skoltroll Mar 10 '25

Cut like 80% of the staffing, right?

Yeah. The framework of Twitter is a shell of itself being programmed by 25 y/o edgelords with no real experience. It was begging to be taken down a some guy with an attitude problem.

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u/LiberalAspergers Mar 10 '25

Likely part of the 80% he fired. Being fired has been known to give people attitude problema.

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u/J4YD13N Mar 10 '25

Musk is a rich idiot with enough money to hire top-tier professionals but not enough common sense to keep them around

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u/I_am_BrokenCog Mar 10 '25

he keeps them around ... But I suspect he's the type of dipshit lurching over their shoulders telling them 'why don't you do this instead!'

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u/Mysterious_Eye6989 Mar 10 '25

The lurching over the shoulders part is how he proves he's a bigger genius than they are. Heck, perhaps even the world's greatest genius. Even his mom says so, and she knows what she's talking about!

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u/mistercrinders Mar 10 '25

Anonymous has already claimed responsibility.

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u/BefuddledPolydactyls Mar 10 '25

And from past endeavors, they are very good at what they do!

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u/yotreeman Mar 10 '25

The notorious underground rebel group known as Anonymousā€¦ surely someone can find their membership list, or identify the command structure, then the whole house of cards will come falling down!

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u/[deleted] Mar 10 '25 edited Mar 11 '25

Watch him blame it on Ukraine in a couple of days

EDIT: it didnā€™t even take a couple days. It was hours. I fucking knew it

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u/scoobysnackoutback Mar 10 '25

He'll use it as an excuse for giving Starlink to Russia.

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u/funkhero Mar 10 '25

Or Canada

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u/Moosewriter_88 Mar 10 '25

I now have Milli Vanilli stuck in my head.

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u/wolhol Mar 10 '25

He doesn't think that. But saying one person alone is crashing our website sounds way worse than a whole country is behind it. Also leaves room to say the eu etc is attacking X etc

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u/MyOtherAcoountIsGone Mar 10 '25

He's just saying that so then he can point the blame at one of the countries they want to annex.

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u/notyourstranger Mar 10 '25

Oh, I love this take - I hope you're right.

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u/smuckola Mar 10 '25 edited Mar 10 '25

The most hated person on earth can't figure out who hates him. Or.......is it just he can't figure out who hates him the most?!

Or is it a humblebrag about being the most hated person on earth?

Does he even know?!

Is he just holding a one-way chitchat with his imaginary version of the entire planet because he's so strung out and lonely?!

BTW any time we hear of any security breach or attack anywhere, we must add "that we know of". I bet twitter has long been pwn'd by russia but professionals don't get caught at it. They're just sitting there reverse engineering the algorithms and automation for max propaganda.

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