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Welcome to the #internet, where cutting-edge "#security solutions" are so advanced they block real #humans! 🤖💥 Congrats, you've been selected to play the "#email the site owner" #game, where you type long emails to figure out why your very existence is a threat. 🌐💌 Now, grab some popcorn and watch as #technology breaks people instead of barriers. 🍿👏
thehandbasket.co/p/musk-opm-5- #fail #vs #machine #HackerNews #ngated

For Elon Musk's government, the psychological warfare is the point.
The HandbasketMove fast and break peopleFor Elon Musk's government, the psychological warfare is the point.

😜 Are they rebelling against the extreme tactic or because they really didn't do anything of value at work last week?

"Key agencies, including some led by Trump loyalists, refuse to comply with Musk’s latest demand"

apnews.com/article/musk-federa

Key U.S. agencies, including the FBI and State Department, have instructed their employees not to comply with cost-cutting chief Elon Musk’s demand that federal workers explain what they accomplished last week — or risk losing their jobs.

Elon Musk arrives to speak at the Conservative Political Action Conference, CPAC, at the Gaylord National Resort & Convention Center, Thursday, Feb. 20, 2025, in Oxon Hill, Md. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana)
AP News · Key federal agencies refuse to comply with Musk's latest demandBy Steve Peoples

The absolute worst people on earth doing their absolute worst. Billionaire worship, the myth of “hard work”, American exceptionalism — and now whatever these out of touch, narcissistic, greedy rich people have always done to others that they exploited to get to where they are now will be applied to everyone. Can’t even call it a clown show anymore because at least clowns want to make you laugh #trump #elonmusk #email #uspol

What an unfortunate name…

STARTTLS has the innate issue that it is an upgrade of a plaintext session. Anything before TLS initiation can be sniffed off the wire. Unavoidable given the *purpose* of STARTTLS. It allows TLS to be used without dedicating a port to it. It is the ONLY way that mail *transit* is encrypted. *Nothing* there justifies non-support of STARTTLS.

The rest of the issues there are old & implementation-specific.

#email #TLS #InfoSec #SMTP #IMAP
mendeddrum.org/@fanf/114052544

The Mended DrumTony Finch (@fanf@mendeddrum.org)2021 retro-link! https://nostarttls.secvuln.info/ - A security analysis of STARTTLS in email protocols.
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#musk is NOT an official employee of the US Government, nor does he have ANY authority, #WhiteHouse said in a court filed documented statement.

#doge is NOT a US Government agency nor does it have any power, officially.

Nobody has to reply to the dumbasstronic skeezy #email from doge, and musk's threat to federal employees over social media is a crime.

storage.courtlistener.com/reca

Shout out to #Postfix for being the most solid piece of software that just keeps on ticking. I've been self-hosting my own email for 20 years and I can't think of a single time it gave me trouble.

#linux#smtp#email

To those still concerned with #Proton #ProtonMail: I've been trying out Lacre (lacre.io), which encrypts incoming #email with your #GPG key, on #Disroot. So far it has worked fairly well! If you have an account with them, see disroot.org/en/blog/disnews-24 for enrollment, though the admin had a backlog when I requested it... And if you don't, consider trying it out! (Custom domains are available: disroot.org/en/perks, which I have for my main email right now.)

lacre.ioLacre | Lacre.ioOpen source end-to-end mailbox encryption for your postfix server.
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Federal employees told to justify jobs in email or Musk says they face dismissal
cnn.com/2025/02/22/politics/el

"But several #NationalSecurity agencies, including the #FBI, and multiple other federal depts, advised staffers not to respond to the #email... suggesting that the broader executive branch was not informed of nor prepared for the demand.

The email came from the Office of Personnel Management’s new HR email address but had no signature."

#Musk#Coup#Trump
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List accomplishments or resign, Musk tells US federal workers
bbc.com/news/articles/cr72n1yy

"US #government workers received an #email on Saturday afternoon... shortly after #Trump spoke at #CPAC...

employees were asked to explain their accomplishments from the past week in five bullet points... before midnight on Monday.

👀 ...Newly-confirmed #FBI director #KashPatel told his employees... that they should "pause any responses" to the #OPM memo."👀 ‼️

#Musk#Coup#Politics