Wired reported this week that a 19-year-old working for Elon Musk‘s so-called Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) was given access to sensitive US government systems even though his past association with cybercrime communities should have precluded him from gaining the necessary security clearances to do so. As today’s story explores, the DOGE teen is a former denizen of ‘The Com,’ an archipelago of Discord and Telegram chat channels that function as a kind of distributed cybercriminal social network for facilitating instant collaboration.
Since President Trump’s second inauguration, Musk’s DOGE team has gained access to a truly staggering amount of personal and sensitive data on American citizens, moving quickly to seize control over databases at the U.S. Treasury, the Office of Personnel Management, the Department of Education, and the Department of Health and Human Resources, among others.
Wired first reported on Feb. 2 that one of the technologists on Musk’s crew is a 19-year-old high school graduate named Edward Coristine, who reportedly goes by the nickname “Big Balls” online. One of the companies Coristine founded, Tesla.Sexy LLC, was set up in 2021, when he would have been around 16 years old.
“Tesla.Sexy LLC controls dozens of web domains, including at least two Russian-registered domains,” Wired reported. “One of those domains, which is still active, offers a service called Helfie, which is an AI bot for Discord servers targeting the Russian market. While the operation of a Russian website would not violate US sanctions preventing Americans doing business with Russian companies, it could potentially be a factor in a security clearance review.”
Mr. Coristine has not responded to requests for comment. In a follow-up story this week, Wired found that someone using a Telegram handle tied to Coristine solicited a DDoS-for-hire service in 2022, and that he worked for a short time at a company that specializes in protecting customers from DDoS attacks.
A profile photo from Coristine’s WhatsApp account.
Internet routing records show that Coristine runs an Internet service provider called Packetware (AS400495). Also known as “DiamondCDN,” Packetware currently hosts tesla[.]sexy and diamondcdn[.]com, among other domains.
DiamondCDN was advertised and claimed by someone who used the nickname “Rivage” on several Com-based Discord channels over the years. A review of chat logs from some of those channels show other members frequently referred to Rivage as “Edward.”
From late 2020 to late 2024, Rivage’s conversations would show up in multiple Com chat servers that are closely monitored by security companies. In November 2022, Rivage could be seen requesting recommendations for a reliable and powerful DDoS-for-hire service.
Rivage made that request in the cybercrime channel “Dstat,” a core Com hub where users could buy and sell attack services. Dstat’s website dstat[.]cc was seized in 2024 as part of “Operation PowerOFF,” an international law enforcement action against DDoS services.
Coristine’s LinkedIn profile said that in 2022 he worked at an anti-DDoS company called Path Networks, which Wired generously described as a “network monitoring firm known for hiring reformed blackhat hackers.” Wired wrote:
“At Path Network, Coristine worked as a systems engineer from April to June of 2022, according to his now-deleted LinkedIn résumé. Path has at times listed as employees Eric Taylor, also known as Cosmo the God, a well-known former cybercriminal and member of the hacker group UGNazis, as well as Matthew Flannery, an Australian convicted hacker whom police allege was a member of the hacker group LulzSec. It’s unclear whether Coristine worked at Path concurrently with those hackers, and WIRED found no evidence that either Coristine or other Path employees engaged in illegal activity while at the company.”
The founder of Path is a young man named Marshal Webb. I wrote about Webb back in 2016, in a story about a DDoS defense company he co-founded called BackConnect Security LLC. On September 20, 2016, KrebsOnSecurity published data showing that the company had a history of hijacking Internet address space that belonged to others.
Less than 24 hours after that story ran, KrebsOnSecurity.com was hit with the biggest DDoS attack the Internet had ever seen at the time. That sustained attack kept this site offline for nearly 4 days.
The other founder of BackConnect Security LLC was Tucker Preston, a Georgia man who pleaded guilty in 2020 to paying a DDoS-for-hire service to launch attacks against others.
The aforementioned Path employee Eric Taylor pleaded guilty in 2017 to charges including an attack on our home in 2013. Taylor was among several men involved in making a false report to my local police department about a supposed hostage situation at our residence in Virginia. In response, a heavily-armed police force surrounded my home and put me in handcuffs at gunpoint before the police realized it was all a dangerous hoax known as “swatting.”
CosmoTheGod rocketed to Internet infamy in 2013 when he and a number of other hackers set up the Web site exposed[dot]su, which “doxed” dozens of public officials and celebrities by publishing the address, Social Security numbers and other personal information on the former First Lady Michelle Obama, the then-director of the FBI and the U.S. attorney general, among others. The group also swatted many of the people they doxed.
Wired noted that Coristine only worked at Path for a few months in 2022, but the story didn’t mention why his tenure was so short. A screenshot shared on the website pathtruths.com includes a snippet of conversations in June 2022 between Path employees discussing Coristine’s firing.
According to that record, Path founder Marshal Webb dismissed Coristine for leaking internal documents to a competitor. Not long after Coristine’s termination, someone leaked an abundance of internal Path documents and conversations. Among other things, those chats revealed that one of Path’s technicians was a Canadian man named Curtis Gervais who was convicted in 2017 of perpetrating dozens of swatting attacks and fake bomb threats — including at least two attempts against our home in 2014.
A snippet of text from an internal Path chat room, wherein members discuss the reason for Coristine’s termination: Allegedly, leaking internal company information. Source: Pathtruths.com.
On May 11, 2024, Rivage posted on a Discord channel for a DDoS protection service that is chiefly marketed to members of The Com. Rivage expressed frustration with his time spent on Com-based communities, suggesting that its profitability had been oversold.
“I don’t think there’s a lot of money to be made in the com,” Rivage lamented. “I’m not buying Heztner [servers] to set up some com VPN.”
Rivage largely stopped posting messages on Com channels after that. Wired reports that Coristine subsequently spent three months last summer working at Neuralink, Elon Musk’s brain implant startup.
The trouble with all this is that even if someone sincerely intends to exit The Com after years of consorting with cybercriminals, they are often still subject to personal attacks, harassment and hacking long after they have left the scene.
That’s because a huge part of Com culture involves harassing, swatting and hacking other members of the community. These internecine attacks are often for financial gain, but just as frequently they are perpetrated by cybercrime groups to exact retribution from or assert dominance over rival gangs.
Experts say it is extremely difficult for former members of violent street gangs to gain a security clearance needed to view sensitive or classified information held by the U.S. government. That’s because ex-gang members are highly susceptible to extortion and coercion from current members of the same gang, and that alone presents an unacceptable security risk for intelligence agencies.
And make no mistake: The Com is the English-language cybercriminal hacking equivalent of a violent street gang. KrebsOnSecurity has published numerous stories detailing how feuds within the community periodically spill over into real-world violence.
When Coristine’s name surfaced in Wired‘s report this week, members of The Com immediately took notice. In the following segment from a February 5, 2025 chat in a Com-affiliated hosting provider, members criticized Rivage’s skills, and discussed harassing his family and notifying authorities about incriminating accusations that may or may not be true.
2025-02-05 16:29:44 UTC vperked#0 they got this nigga on indiatimes man
2025-02-05 16:29:46 UTC alexaloo#0 Their cropping is worse than AI could have done
2025-02-05 16:29:48 UTC hebeatsme#0 bro who is that
2025-02-05 16:29:53 UTC hebeatsme#0 yalla re talking about
2025-02-05 16:29:56 UTC xewdy#0 edward
2025-02-05 16:29:56 UTC .yarrb#0 rivagew
2025-02-05 16:29:57 UTC vperked#0 Rivarge
2025-02-05 16:29:57 UTC xewdy#0 diamondcdm
2025-02-05 16:29:59 UTC vperked#0 i cant spell it
2025-02-05 16:30:00 UTC hebeatsme#0 rivage
2025-02-05 16:30:08 UTC .yarrb#0 yes
2025-02-05 16:30:14 UTC hebeatsme#0 i have him added
2025-02-05 16:30:20 UTC hebeatsme#0 hes on discord still
2025-02-05 16:30:47 UTC .yarrb#0 hes focused on stroking zaddy elon
2025-02-05 16:30:47 UTC vperked#0 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Coristine
2025-02-05 16:30:50 UTC vperked#0 no fucking way
2025-02-05 16:30:53 UTC vperked#0 they even made a wiki for him
2025-02-05 16:30:55 UTC vperked#0 LOOOL
2025-02-05 16:31:05 UTC hebeatsme#0 no way
2025-02-05 16:31:08 UTC hebeatsme#0 hes not a good dev either
2025-02-05 16:31:14 UTC hebeatsme#0 like????
2025-02-05 16:31:22 UTC hebeatsme#0 has to be fake
2025-02-05 16:31:24 UTC xewdy#0 and theyre saying ts
2025-02-05 16:31:29 UTC xewdy#0 like ok bro
2025-02-05 16:31:51 UTC .yarrb#0 now i wanna know what all the other devs are like…
2025-02-05 16:32:00 UTC vperked#0 “`Coristine used the moniker “bigballs” on LinkedIn and @Edwardbigballer on Twitter, according to The Daily Dot.[“`
2025-02-05 16:32:05 UTC vperked#0 LOL
2025-02-05 16:32:06 UTC hebeatsme#0 lmfaooo
2025-02-05 16:32:07 UTC vperked#0 bro
2025-02-05 16:32:10 UTC hebeatsme#0 bro
2025-02-05 16:32:17 UTC hebeatsme#0 has to be fake right
2025-02-05 16:32:22 UTC .yarrb#0 does it mention Rivage?
2025-02-05 16:32:23 UTC xewdy#0 He previously worked for NeuraLink, a brain computer interface company led by Elon Musk
2025-02-05 16:32:26 UTC xewdy#0 bro what
2025-02-05 16:32:27 UTC alexaloo#0 I think your current occupation gives you a good insight of what probably goes on
2025-02-05 16:32:29 UTC hebeatsme#0 bullshit man
2025-02-05 16:32:33 UTC xewdy#0 this nigga got hella secrets
2025-02-05 16:32:37 UTC hebeatsme#0 rivage couldnt print hello world
2025-02-05 16:32:42 UTC hebeatsme#0 if his life was on the line
2025-02-05 16:32:50 UTC xewdy#0 nigga worked for neuralink
2025-02-05 16:32:54 UTC hebeatsme#0 bullshit
2025-02-05 16:33:06 UTC Nashville Dispatch ##0000 ||@PD Ping||
2025-02-05 16:33:07 UTC hebeatsme#0 must have killed all those test pigs with some bugs
2025-02-05 16:33:24 UTC hebeatsme#0 ur telling me the rivage who failed to start a company
2025-02-05 16:33:28 UTC hebeatsme#0 https://cdn.camp
2025-02-05 16:33:32 UTC hebeatsme#0 who didnt pay for servers
2025-02-05 16:33:34 UTC hebeatsme#0 ?
2025-02-05 16:33:42 UTC hebeatsme#0 was too cheap
2025-02-05 16:33:44 UTC vperked#0 yes
2025-02-05 16:33:50 UTC hebeatsme#0 like??
2025-02-05 16:33:53 UTC hebeatsme#0 it aint adding up
2025-02-05 16:33:56 UTC alexaloo#0 He just needed to find his calling idiot.
2025-02-05 16:33:58 UTC alexaloo#0 He found it.
2025-02-05 16:33:59 UTC hebeatsme#0 bro
2025-02-05 16:34:01 UTC alexaloo#0 Cope in a river dude
2025-02-05 16:34:04 UTC hebeatsme#0 he cant make good money right
2025-02-05 16:34:08 UTC hebeatsme#0 doge is about efficiency
2025-02-05 16:34:11 UTC hebeatsme#0 he should make $1/he
2025-02-05 16:34:15 UTC hebeatsme#0 $1/hr
2025-02-05 16:34:25 UTC hebeatsme#0 and be whipped for better code
2025-02-05 16:34:26 UTC vperked#0 prolly makes more than us
2025-02-05 16:34:35 UTC vperked#0 with his dad too
2025-02-05 16:34:52 UTC hebeatsme#0 time to report him for fraud
2025-02-05 16:34:54 UTC hebeatsme#0 to donald trump
2025-02-05 16:35:04 UTC hebeatsme#0 rivage participated in sim swap hacks in 2018
2025-02-05 16:35:08 UTC hebeatsme#0 put that on his wiki
2025-02-05 16:35:10 UTC hebeatsme#0 thanks
2025-02-05 16:35:15 UTC hebeatsme#0 and in 2021
2025-02-05 16:35:17 UTC hebeatsme#0 thanks
2025-02-05 16:35:19 UTC chainofcommand#0 i dont think they’ll care tbh
Given the speed with which Musk’s DOGE team was allowed access to such critical government databases, it strains credulity that Coristine could have been properly cleared beforehand. After all, he’d recently been dismissed from a job for allegedly leaking internal company information to outsiders.
According to the national security adjudication guidelines (PDF) released by the Director of National Intelligence (DNI), eligibility determinations take into account a person’s stability, trustworthiness, reliability, discretion, character, honesty, judgment, and ability to protect classified information.
The DNI policy further states that “eligibility for covered individuals shall be granted only when facts and circumstances indicate that eligibility is clearly consistent with the national security interests of the United States, and any doubt shall be resolved in favor of national security.”
On Thursday, 25-year-old DOGE staff member Marko Elez resigned after being linked to a deleted social media account that advocated racism and eugenics. Elez resigned after The Wall Street Journal asked the White House about his connection to the account.
“Just for the record, I was racist before it was cool,” the account posted in July. “You could not pay me to marry outside of my ethnicity,” the account wrote on X in September. “Normalize Indian hate,” the account wrote the same month, in reference to a post noting the prevalence of people from India in Silicon Valley.
Elez’s resignation came a day after the Department of Justice agreed to limit the number of DOGE employees who have access to federal payment systems. The DOJ said access would be limited to two people, Elez and Tom Krause, the CEO of a company called Cloud Software Group.
Earlier today, Musk said he planned to rehire Elez after President Trump and Vice President JD Vance reportedly endorsed the idea. Speaking at The White House today, Trump said he wasn’t concerned about the security of personal information and other data accessed by DOGE, adding that he was “very proud of the job that this group of young people” are doing.
A White House official told Reuters on Wednesday that Musk and his engineers have appropriate security clearances and are operating in “full compliance with federal law, appropriate security clearances, and as employees of the relevant agencies, not as outside advisors or entities.”
NPR reports Trump added that his administration’s cost-cutting efforts would soon turn to the Education Department and the Pentagon, “where he suggested without evidence that there could be ‘trillions’ of dollars in wasted spending within the $6.75 trillion the federal government spent in fiscal year 2024.”
GOP leaders in the Republican-controlled House and Senate have largely shrugged about Musk’s ongoing efforts to seize control over federal databases, dismantle agencies mandated by Congress, freeze federal spending on a range of already-appropriated government programs, and threaten workers with layoffs.
Meanwhile, multiple parties have sued to stop DOGE’s activities. ABC News says a federal judge was to rule today on whether DOGE should be blocked from accessing Department of Labor records, following a lawsuit alleging Musk’s team sought to illegally access highly sensitive data, including medical information, from the federal government.
At least 13 state attorneys general say they plan to file a lawsuit to stop DOGE from accessing federal payment systems containing Americans’ sensitive personal information, reports The Associated Press.
Reuters reported Thursday that the U.S. Treasury Department had agreed not to give Musk’s team access to its payment systems while a judge is hearing arguments in a lawsuit by employee unions and retirees alleging Musk illegally searched those records.
Ars Technica writes that The Department of Education (DoE) was sued Friday by a California student association demanding an “immediate stop” to DOGE’s “unlawfully” digging through student loan data to potentially dismantle the DoE.
Quite a team assembled by Elon Musk ….. a man who frequently gives Nazi salutes at rallies and events he attends …. a man who’s behaviour and decisions have the full blessing of his boss – Donald Trump. Indeed, these attributes are the reason Musk was chosen for the job.
“Often” ??? Repeats of the same video over and over again is perhaps your definition of often.
Elon is an awkward nerd, but at least his heart goes out to you.
keep gargling those nazi testicles you gonna go far
And Macron, Hillary and others m didn’t do the same and not a peep? There are many of similar pictures and examples. . Non are Nazi sympathizers and this is just BS distraction which removes any credibility of anything you say.
oh look, it’s retarded. how sad.
They didn’t thrust their hands out from their bodies like Musk did.
Elon seems very unlikely to actually know how to code, but very likely to hire those who do, so his rumored hack of voting machines might involve someone like Coristine
Are they rumored to have hacked the paper backups? This was stupid when Trump alleged it in 2020. It’s still stupid.
Voting records include a paper backup.
Voting machines are not networked.
There are elements where their security can be improved, but anyone telling you an election was hacked through voting machines is weaponizing your own ignorance against you.
AGREED!
Yes because paper ballots can’t be hacked, they can be set on fire:
https://edition.cnn.com/2024/10/29/us/ballot-box-fires-what-we-know/index.html
Sorry, but this stinks of targeted manipulation. Mail in votes being systematically targeted? Even when known foreign parties have been sending bombs on comercial cargo planes heading for the US, during the same time frame as postal votes were heading down in?
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/russia-plot-plant-bombs-cargo-planes-western-official-says-rcna178748
Post election news and maps has the heritage foundation listed as the top results on most internet search engines. And a lot of other democrats sites and news being . No one likes a good old conspiracy theory like the internet.
They didn’t check the paper backups. Harris didn’t ask for a recount. I think some states don’t even have paper backups anymore, just a scanned version of it that can be hacked as well.
Actually most machines have network capability –look up ES&S Wikipedia page. For the ones that don’t, that’s what the bomb threats were for.
@UsefulId10t Trump himself recently said out loud, on camera, that Elon messed with the voting machines. Can you do a simple Google search?
We already know Elon committed election fraud. He offered $1mil for anyone who voted Trump in swing states. He also created fake Kamala ads to make her look bad. Considering that he’s literally now attempting a coup via hacker kids, you really shouldn’t sound so confident.
lmao
nigga can’t code
he’s a skid like everyone else in the scene
like did you actually read the fucking logs in the article?
most he’s ever gonna pull off is DDoS some poor mf
aint gonna touch a friggin voting machine
He certainly didn’t know how to code back in the day, one of the reasons he got his value-non-added ass tossed from Paypal was because he kept insisting on Windows servers because he didn’t ‘get’ Linux.
Agree. He could have been behind the bomb threats as well, possibly even using his Russian web domains.
Intresting! Do I detect a smidgen of TDS Brian? All of that breathless reporting about an organization that has already saved taxpayers billions of dollars and has been responsible for removing thousands of leeches scamming American taxpayers of billions of dollars to promote far left agendas. Any chance we will find out that Krebs on Security was on the payroll of USAID?
I’m surprised you figured out how to turn on your computer.
Dude lay off the pipe.
LOL true foolery. Imagine being so politically motivated that you’re willing to let sycophants that don’t even try to obscure their criminal history get hired to completely disregard national security to serve a man who has so much money it can’t even be comprehended.
Accusations of TDS are blatant gaslighting.
Make no mistake – the threat to democracy is a serious real and present danger.
don’t forget to cup the balls
Ignorant perps like you are the problem Leo. Unlike Brian, you have zero facts regarding DOGE Hackers saving anybody anything. Time will tell what they cost us, hopefully it is just money.
Looks like both of your braincells died.
Anyone using the term “TDS” as a pejorative has the IQ of a rutabaga, unless they mean “Trump Devotion Syndrome”.
it must rock to be stupid
BIG BALLS #1
Not one word of what you posted is true. You’re either doing Daddy Putin’s work for him (who hates USAID for good reason), or are just one of those dudes who doesn’t know what he doesn’t know, and doesn’t let it stop him from telling the world about it.
Let me guess: you’re not even one of those sad Musklings who are able to misuse and distort info from usaspending.gov to make context and fact-free claims about USAID and other programs. You’re just a follower who believes whatever the Musklings say.
Or maybe you’re one of those “people” who work for those USAID undermines. If so, my best to Kim Jong Un, President Xi, and Daddy Putin.
Either way: pathetic.
For our illustrious readers: USAID is one of the greatest forces for democracy and improving people’s lives around the world, from fighting terrorism to stopping pandemics before they start. Their employees are among the most highly skilled and selfless people around. Attacks on them are either provably, grossly uninformed slander, or part of a deliberate effort to promote autocracy and kleptocracy.
Leo here is either utterly ignorant or — just as likely — working for the bad guys. And believe me, they know what this means, and are loving every moment.
How dumb are you people where you think talking like this works? TDS? Are you a child or something?
Mkay ̶E̶d̶w̶a̶r̶d̶ I mean Leo.
Presumably you believe the Peace Corps is a scam too. And Social Security. And SNAP. Having common sense doesn’t make me a liberal . It just reminds me which folks are having a discussion and who’s repeating propaganda that is being advanced by Elon and Donald without a shred of proof.
Am I the only one to notice that “Doge” is Italian for Ruler?
You will like this as well.
Donald is a masculine given name of Gaelic origin, meaning “Ruler or king of the world” or “Great chief”. It is composed of the Old Irish elements domun (“world”) and fal (“rule”).
Ireland. Famous for its strength. Loser
You left out what “Leo” means and didn’t mention your pride.
Whereas Drumpf, his family name, refers to gassy flatulence. King of Flatulence.
And the traditional name given when your wife hates you and is waiting for you to die
so she can cash out and get back to the eastern bloc.
LOL!! SPOT ON!! Gassy Malignant Narcissist….
DOGE = DEPARTMENT OF GENOCIDAL EUGENICISTS
Its supposed to be pronounced “doggy”, but just about everyone involved with memes is a massive idiot.
welcome to 1933 v2
Thank you for the write up Brian. I appreciate your work and always have.
Thanks for the writeup. Wanted to mention that it isn’t called “the com” it’s just “com” and it’s not only a network of criminals, it’s also a network of pedophile extortionists and, animal gore admirers. If you’d like to know more, feel free to reach out as I’ve been researching these groups for nearly two years now.
Thank you for writing this.
Brian,
It’s good to bring these details out in the public light.
I see now that Anderson Cooper of CNN is also covering “Big Balls”. (let others fill in the punch line)
Perhaps you beat them to the punch or at least you are providing the background details.
This poor junior big baller is going to get blamed for all the future government PII breaches and if found guilty should go to federal prison for at least 35 years, just like Chelsea Manning. S/he’s still serving time, right?
The thing is the Chinese hacked the OPM back in 2015, which included much more detail on any/all government employees, including CIA, NSA, DIA, etc. than anything that could possibly be revealed in all the other breaches of Equifax, AT&T, NPD, etc. since then. Things like psychological profiles, sexual proclivities, aliases, and such.
An incident you covered in fairly good detail at the time. Good job.
https://www.tripwire.com/state-of-security/the-opm-breach-timeline-of-a-hack
This guy has likely already exfiltrated everything, if he has criminal intent.
Elon and DJT will pay a heavy political price to the point at least the latter may never be elected again, notwithstanding any proposed one-off constitutional amendments
Thank you for this well-researched article, Brian. It’s vital that daylight is shined on these operators. Absolutely chilling.
those chatlogs r fucking hilarious, imagine getting exposed for being in a cybercrime gang just to also find out the members in said group didn’t even like you or thought you were good at your job
Is it me or does Brian sound “triggered”??? After reading this article, I swear it sounded like the many conspiracy theory complaints that get sent to my agency for me to investigate. Mr.Krebs, I used to come here to read objective information about cyber crimes. Please leave your political biases out of your or many of us will be finding a new source for info on cyber crime.
Yes Eric, it is just you. If you want to say something, come forward and provide details but stop throwing cotton candy into the air. Or remain quiet. (As a matter of fact, when people commenting saying “I’m a long term reader or often come here bla bla bla” they’re usually not.
You won’t be missed. Don’t let the door hit you on the way out.
I’m surprised Elon didn’t hire Ross Ulbricht, too, since he’s now available thanks to Trump’s pardon.
This post was flagged on the orange website, does it happen often?
Maybe these guys can find Donald Trump’s long-promised but still so far MIA income tax returns. For the appropriate bribe.
What do you expect from the criminal commander in chief that only cares about enriching himself? What Brian had reported is just a tip of the iceberg. Watch the sh*t show unfold for the next 4 years.
oh.. bilbo!
Smaug is coming.
“There you are, Thief in the Shadows!”
Ohhhhh smaug loves you 5000.
> Trump said he wasn’t concerned about the security of personal information and other data accessed by DOGE
Will he be concerned when the inevitable big data leak happens and Trump’s tax records become public?
Interesting. I have to be honest though, all in all, I’m more in favor of uncovering all of he massive amounts of corruption, deceit, lies, and waste than I am about a typical internet discord kiddo “nigga” who got fired from DOGE. He’s gone now, and there’s more work to do, so let’s focus on the real problem and not allow the left to continue their disinformation and smear campaigns in a vain attempt to cover up their illegal activity. Krebs, in the name of security, you should be all over what’s being uncovered. I can’t imagine how you could not if you’re not bought and paid for. Say it ain’t so!
The problem is, nothing has been “uncovered”. Musk and his followers are simply mining usaspending.gov — a transparency website run by the U.S. government itself — for things to misrepresent.
All we’ve heard otherwise are claims with so little evidence that even Trump-appointed judges are rejecting them.
Musk and Trump are two of the most dishonest people in public life today. They have huge conflicts of interest in everything they do, and that alone should lead rational people to be skeptical of their claims.
What exactly is being uncovered? Could you provide a list? By the way, Musk is getting his numbers from a public website that lists all government spending. It’s been available for 20 years. And each agency department has inspector generals who audits numbers and looks for any fraud or errors. Musk’s 20-year-old minions are not doing “audits” of government computer systems. That would take months for forensic accountants.
Take a look for yourself where Musk getting his numbers:
https://www.usaspending.gov/
No need for a list when you seem to know exactly what fraud I speak of since you claim it’s just being mined from a government website. Perhaps you can link to us where it indicates, as one example, where Chelsea Clinton’s proceeds are listed. You are against the entire universe here, except for Reddit, so I’m not expecting much, but I have an open mind and would welcome any actual proof you have that all of these alleged fraud is actually listed on this website.
People like you are too dumb to keep living, let alone have voting rights. I hope Big Balls and Musk sell your SS# you absolute cuck.
datarepublican.com is presenting some interesting items from the aggregated data and associated EIN #’s
So how did Edward end up where he is? Elon too dumb or he has something on Elon, and leveraged to force his way into neuralink? This is such a cluster fuck.
The wealthiest man in history is sleeping on his office floor to stop government from robbing you.
Y’all need to sit this one out
Found the Musk Fanboi.
No, Vaadu, that’s not what is happening. At all. Maybe get your info from a better, less conflicted source than Musk himself?
What are you talking about, the guy who quit is a different kid. Did you even read the article? Lol.
I miss the times after WaPo when every article Brian would write was WOW! I always looked forward to them. Now, not so much. Brian has forgotten that the real enemy is outside the US and has fallen for all of the propaganda spewed from the FAR left. The WaPo itself was always FAR left and maybe that rubbed off on him, and so now, one of our own is FAR left.
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And I miss the times when half our country wasn’t following a cult leader who will follow the path of all cult leaders and take everyone with him if he can. Good luck.
I love you Brian. Happy you’re not playing these silly games too. I’ve lost a lot of respect for many different people in recent years
Explain how you can glom on to every wrinkle about the people who are exposing the fraud and coruption within the federal government and yet not give a damn about who and what they are exposing. Can you not understand why people think you have become an operative for the democrat party? They don’t want any of this to come out because they are the benefactors of all the money laundering and you seem to have the same point of view. Why is that?
Leo, I am speaking as a non US citizen, so I have no skin in this game and don’t give a sh*t about your bi-partisan politics one way or another. I am however, part of the security community of one of your closest allies, who are watching very intently at the drama that is playing out in your country right now, and most of us are rightly very concerned at what is unfolding.
You need to take a step back, forget domestic politics for a minute and take a look at the bigger picture. Rightly or wrongly, Elon Musk has just taken an axe to access some of the US governments most CRITICAL information systems; Nuclear research labs, Dept of Treasury and Dept of Energy to name a few. In doing so, he and his inexperienced corporate cowboys have taken ZERO consideration for the security protocols put in place to protect those assets, and right here, right now those assets are becoming exponentially more vulnerable by the day.
Don’t believe me read this;
https://cyberintel.substack.com/p/doge-exposes-once-secret-government
The citations at the end of the article lists the IP addresses of exposed and sensitive US government servers, and if I can see them, so can the Russians, the Chinese, the Iranians and the North Koreans. And I guarantee that stealthy reconnaissance is occurring as we speak.
Security is all about trust and integrity, especially the people you hire to handle sensitive information. All Brian has done has highlight the questionable character of one of Elon’s inner circle and I might add, his connections to Russia. If you still want to defend them after acknowledging that, not act and let this continue, then I’ve got news for you. A torrential digital storm is coming, the likes America has never seen.
The keys to the kingdom were exposed while Brandon was in office The Russians and the chinese as well as other evil actors have had these IPs since before Musk got involved. They have been in our networks for a long time and these articles are only now concerned because Trump was elected. They have been kicked out from time to time, but the breech happened under another administration and there was no out cry from the media. Brian was never critical of any thing in 4 years of mismanagement by the democrats. His motives for this article look less than pure to me, but you are welcome to your own opinion.
Don’t say you weren’t warned.
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You are delusional if you can’t see what is happening to America right now. This article is like all others from him, a deep dive into the facts surrounding individuals involved in this space. These facts point to a conclusion, not based on the opinions of the author, but by the observed behaviors of the individuals involved.
You might want to also mention how virulent com is with the production and consumption of child pornography.
https://www.maargentino.com/coming-soon/
Hey Krebs, he is alot smarter than you! You claimed the 2020 election was the “most secure election” ! We see how truthful that was. We need more “BigBalls” in the US Government
oh look more lies but when you have an interest in dodging the truth you’ll say anything
it’s weird because you won (for now… don’t think Trump cares about you) and yet you’ll still bitch and complain
Great writing, as always, Brian. Amazing at how quickly this has happened.
And please ignore the ignorant Trump apologists who seem to flood the comments here. Keep doing what you’re doing, shining a light where it’s needed. Cheers.
Coristine’s mom is a Russian immigrant. This kid likely speaks fluent Russian and likely spent his teen years slurping down pro Russia content online. Is The Com affiliated with state-controlled Russian actors?
Local newspaper in CT tracked down his mom’s digital footprint:
https://www.ctinsider.com/connecticut/article/elon-musk-doge-ct-edward-coristine-trump-20154340.php
Presumably you believe the Peace Corps is a scam too. And Social Security. And SNAP. Having common sense doesn’t make me a liberal . It just reminds me which folks are having a discussion and who’s repeating propaganda that is being advanced by Elon and Donald without a shred of proof.
Everyday I think how could trump who tried to violently overturn the results of the 2020 election be president now. When he failed in 2020 everyone said our Democracy was saved by the guard rails. Well now we are in deep trouble with trump, musk, Gabbard and others doing the work of the Putin. The actual US citizens that read this blog and post here, if you voted for trump, are you okay with the south african druggie having carte blanche access to our key systems and agencies? If you are you should be embarassed.
Yes. As of today we now have former democrat RFK jr. also. He too, has seen the error of his ways.
Thanks to Brian for the article and all those who contributed in the comments – all in all a great read.