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   Kee Hinckley (nazgul@infosec.exchange)'s status on Sunday, 02-Feb-2025 09:17:57 JST Kee Hinckley

   I keep thinking about the fact that the man who walked into Twitter and turned off random servers to make things "more efficient" is now doing the same thing to the United States government.

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     Kee Hinckley (nazgul@infosec.exchange)'s status on Sunday, 02-Feb-2025 09:17:55 JST Kee Hinckley

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     • author_is_ShrikeTron🔠💉x7

     @ShrikeTron Except it's not just employees.

     "responsible for distributing Social Security and Medicare benefits, salaries for federal personnel, payments to government contractors and grant recipients, and tax refunds, among tens of thousands of other functions"

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     author_is_ShrikeTron🔠💉x7 (shriketron@mstdn.social)'s status on Sunday, 02-Feb-2025 09:17:56 JST author_is_ShrikeTron🔠💉x7

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     @nazgul If this is Twitter playbook, I surmise they're looking for how employees are categorized, pay rates, etc.

     Then looking for ways to reclassify and fire anybody they consider waste or redundant.

     Same time, eliminate/purge positions that could resist their moves.

     More leverage to back their previous "leave or be fired" memo.

     AnthonyJK-Admin repeated this.
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     Kee Hinckley (nazgul@infosec.exchange)'s status on Sunday, 02-Feb-2025 09:17:57 JST Kee Hinckley

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     And what possible reason does he have to access the system that the government uses to pay everyone? That contains private info on hundreds of million of people.

     There's no rational reason to do so unless you're planning to use it to cut off payments for ideological reasons.