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CDC data are disappearing

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749 points doener | 6 comments | 01 Feb 25 11:52 UTC | HN request time: 0.642s | source | bottom
1. phillipcarter ◴[01 Feb 25 15:12 UTC] No.42898912[source]▶
This is a blitzkrieg campaign designed to try and get Musk and his people as much control of the digital government as possible before the roadblocks (legal, systematic, etc.) make things too difficult for him. As it stands, his goal is likely a purge of the federal government akin to what he did with Twitter. And the resulting 80% drop in revenue by Twitter is a similar kind of outcome we can expect from his careless meddling.
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2. ryandrake ◴[01 Feb 25 22:07 UTC] No.42902895[source]▶
Except of course, instead of a company nobody cares about losing advertisers and money, lives are going to be lost. The stakes are higher when you start dismantling critical institutions and stuffing them full of loyal incompetents.
3. neumann ◴[02 Feb 25 02:18 UTC] No.42905004[source]▶
It is very plausible that he is also using it to get all the data he wants from this, not just to scrub it. It would make sense given his desire to compete on AGI that he can both scrub this data for public use and feed it to his own training sets.
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4. phillipcarter ◴[02 Feb 25 03:42 UTC] No.42905593[source]▶
I don't think he cares a whole lot about xAI at the moment. He's busy being shadow president.
5. computerthings ◴[02 Feb 25 04:25 UTC] No.42905798[source]▶
https://bsky.app/profile/altnps.bsky.social/post/3lh3dl3rkgc...

> Elon Musk staff has been caught installing hard drives inside the Office of Personnel Management (OPM), the Treasury Department, and the General Services Administration (GSA). His staff encountered resistance when demanding that Treasury officials grant access to systems managing the flow of more than $6 trillion annually to programs like Social Security and Medicare. Tensions escalated when Musk’s aides were discovered at OPM accessing systems, including a vast database known as the Enterprise Human Resources Integration (EHRI), which contains sensitive information such as dates of birth, Social Security numbers, performance appraisals, home addresses, pay grades, and length of service for government employees. In response to employees speaking out, Musk’s aides locked civil servants out of computer systems and offices, with reports of personal items being searched.

6. johnnyanmac ◴[02 Feb 25 21:20 UTC] No.42911956[source]▶
Still so stupid in my eyes. This isn't the public sector, you can't just lay off 80% of the government without a hell of a battle with all the representative powers of the US.

Government's already being sued over these actions this weekend. I just hope federal employees ignore all his actions. They don't work for him (and Trump can't fire most of them in retaliation)