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   Kevin Beaumont (gossithedog@cyberplace.social)'s status on Sunday, 23-Feb-2025 08:49:49 JST Kevin Beaumont

   Elon’s pulling the same ‘tell master what you did’ psychological games he did at Twitter on federal government employees.

   https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cr72n1yyj30o

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     fumoh (fumoh@infosec.exchange)'s status on Sunday, 23-Feb-2025 17:58:22 JST fumoh

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     @GossiTheDog According to the email system’s PIA (https://www.opm.gov/media/kfpozkad/gwes-pia.pdf), all responses to messages are voluntary and Feds can opt out by just not replying.

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     Andy Piper (andypiper@macaw.social)'s status on Sunday, 23-Feb-2025 17:59:03 JST Andy Piper

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     @GossiTheDog it’s an identical playbook, he should have been held accountable for the *many* ways he directly broke laws in that acquisition, never was, and now… 🤬

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     Kevin Beaumont (gossithedog@cyberplace.social)'s status on Sunday, 23-Feb-2025 18:05:42 JST Kevin Beaumont

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     You can email a list of things you did this week to hr@opm.gov as requested, here’s mine.

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     David Chisnall (*Now with 50% more sarcasm!*) (david_chisnall@infosec.exchange)'s status on Sunday, 23-Feb-2025 18:38:27 JST David Chisnall (*Now with 50% more sarcasm!*)

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     @GossiTheDog What’s the betting that they don’t check SPF and DMARC signatures and so just accept emails from president@whitehouse.gov as if they are legitimate?

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     PhreakByte (nieldk@infosec.exchange)'s status on Sunday, 23-Feb-2025 18:38:27 JST PhreakByte

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     • David Chisnall (*Now with 50% more sarcasm!*)

     @david_chisnall @GossiTheDog they do https://dmarcian.com/domain-checker/?domain=Opm.gov

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     David Chisnall (*Now with 50% more sarcasm!*) (david_chisnall@infosec.exchange)'s status on Sunday, 23-Feb-2025 18:38:27 JST David Chisnall (*Now with 50% more sarcasm!*)

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     • PhreakByte

     @nieldk @GossiTheDog That tells you that the sending domain has the correct entries, it doesn’t check that the receiver does the right thing for invalid emails.

     For example, when I was at Microsoft, all of the right DNS entries were configured for the microsoft.com domain, but if I sent myself an email via my own mail server claiming to be from a MS email address (invalid sender according to SPF, invalid DKIM signature) it was still delivered (and Exchange helpfully stripped off all of the SMTP headers that would make it obvious that it came from an invalid sender).

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     Patrick Vanhoucke (librarianbe@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 23-Feb-2025 20:40:30 JST Patrick Vanhoucke

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     @GossiTheDog Is this the actual e-mail address to which US federal workers should forward their activities? We could bombard this address with ‘done’ lists from around the world.

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     Kevin Beaumont (gossithedog@cyberplace.social)'s status on Monday, 24-Feb-2025 16:55:54 JST Kevin Beaumont

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     CISA are encouraging staff to reply to the DOGE ‘what did you do this week’ email. 😬

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     Monika (greenskyoverme@ohai.social)'s status on Monday, 24-Feb-2025 20:37:45 JST Monika

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     @GossiTheDog Image description:
     Screenshot of e-mail to HR:
     Subject: 5 things I did this week.
     Content:
     1. Laughed at President Musk's tweets
     2. Watched Tesla's stock price continue to fall, down 20% in past month
     3. Laughed again that Elon admitted hiring a player in China so he could cheat at a video game and pretend he was the number one player in the world
     4. Laughed at the Elon interview yesterday where he couldn't string a sentence together
     5. I basically laughed a lot (at Elon).
     Thanks.

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     Craig Stewart (pmb00cs@mastodon.online)'s status on Monday, 24-Feb-2025 20:38:21 JST Craig Stewart

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     @GossiTheDog I mean a template reply of.
     "1: Did my job on Monday
     2: Did my job on Tuesday
     3: Did my job on Wednesday
     4: Did my job on Thursday
     5: Replied to this email without giving away classified operational details"
     Probably wouldn't go down well.

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     vampirdaddy (vampirdaddy@chaos.social)'s status on Monday, 24-Feb-2025 20:38:41 JST vampirdaddy

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     @GossiTheDog
     Recommendation:
     do it on paper, with all the necessary confidentiality & secrecy markings and stamps, file it to the proper restricted filing cabinets/reading rooms,
     and answer to the request mail:
     "can be inspected with the proper clearance in the confidential files reading room XY of facility ABC under file no. 12345"

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     Kevin Beaumont (gossithedog@cyberplace.social)'s status on Tuesday, 25-Feb-2025 08:22:57 JST Kevin Beaumont

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     HHS have told staff responding to Elon’s ‘what have you done this week’ email to “Assume that what you write will be read by malign foreign actors and tailor your response accordingly.” 🤣🤣

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     Gary Parker (witewulf@cyberplace.social)'s status on Tuesday, 25-Feb-2025 17:11:38 JST Gary Parker

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     @GossiTheDog the Civil War will be one of bureaucracy

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     Kevin Beaumont (gossithedog@cyberplace.social)'s status on Tuesday, 25-Feb-2025 18:13:21 JST Kevin Beaumont

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     President Trump and President Elon are again threatening to fire people who don’t respond to the email, also threatening the departments who told staff not to respond. https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/clyz2xk7d9xo

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     Kevin Beaumont (gossithedog@cyberplace.social)'s status on Tuesday, 25-Feb-2025 18:16:26 JST Kevin Beaumont

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     If you aren’t in government and wish to respond with what 5 things you’re working on anyway, the email address is hr@opm.gov and you can CC in your manager, Elon Musk - erm@spacex.com