Will that actually stop him at this point?

  • @[email protected]
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    03 months ago

    Guy should be sitting in prison for breaking into our government systems. Having a mere say-so from the felon-in-chief is not enough.

    Fuck, I hate this timeline.

  • shoulderoforion
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    233 months ago

    hahahahahaha now that they installed every back door known to man and beast alike

  • @[email protected]
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    113 months ago

    They don’t care about legal, so why should that bother him?

    They are in the middle of a coup, they don’t fear what currently is still the law.

  • @[email protected]
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    163 months ago

    Last I saw they still have two “special employees” with “read only” access. So he still has “read only” access

    But also? They already made code changes. And while I doubt they would be able to do anything meaningful, it is not hard to add another user account or an ssh tunnel to get through the “air gap”. And it would not be beyond musk et al to call that “hacking”.

    • borari
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      73 months ago

      Just to be clear, I will absolutely create new domain users or add my own ssh keys to an authorized_keys file to escalate privs or move laterally through a network while I’m “hacking”.

      Also a malicious actor opening a reverse port forward tunnel with ssh allows them to punch a hole to them on the WAN side of the network when they’re dealing with NAT or firewall rules. If a system is truly airgapped then that accomplishes nothing. You’d need something plugged in to the airgapped system or airgapped network to bridge that air gap, like a usb adapter that has a SIM card in it.

      • @[email protected]
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        53 months ago

        Since we are talking about payment systems that interact with other banking systems, they will not be actually air gapped. By the nature and purpose of the systems in question, they must have access to the physical Internet (even if it is entirely abstracted away under layers of VPNs and encryption).

        Assuming them compromised is prudent. Physical access is total access.

  • Kompressor
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    143 months ago

    Why would it stop him? All he has to do is have Trump pardon him. They can do anything they want they have the guy that can hand out get out of jail free cards.

    • @[email protected]
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      143 months ago

      Just need to keep repeating, “Trump looks weak next to President Musk.” over and over, and everywhere. That could get under his craw.

      • @[email protected]
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        53 months ago

        Need media to keep asking “Who actually is the president” and accidentally saying “President Musk” over and over

  • @[email protected]
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    1213 months ago

    It’s too late in some ways. He’s already had access. The system has been compromised. Any number of bad actors, including Musk himself, could have asked used this situation to insert their own code into the system. We will never again be able to be certain that it is secure.

    • @[email protected]
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      653 months ago

      I imagine this looks a lot like what people in the cyber security sector do after a breach. Audit all the code, scan all the servers, monitor everything for several months. It’s a ton of work and very expensive, but there are people with lots of real-world experience unhacking systems.

      • @[email protected]
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        43 months ago

        I can’t read the article because paywall, but I assume access was blocked by some sort of court injunction. So what’ll really happen is that that stuff is how actual-patriot treasury employees will occupy their time until the ruling gets appealed to some MAGA judge and Musk waltzes right back in again.

      • @[email protected]
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        273 months ago

        Elon Musk is technically a job creator because so many people have to be hired just to fix his fuck ups.

    • @[email protected]
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      63 months ago

      Yes, you will be able to trust the system, after an independent team have ripped out the old system and built a new from the ground up.