New: The 19-year-old technologist who has become one of the best known members of Elon Musk’s US DOGE Service was providing digital infrastructure to a cybercrime ring as recently as two years ago. www.reuters.com/world/us/dog... - ThreadSky

raphae.li • 25 days ago

New: The 19-year-old technologist who has become one of the best known members of Elon Musk’s US DOGE Service was providing digital infrastructure to a cybercrime ring as recently as two years ago.
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/doge-staffer-big-balls-provided-tech-support-cybercrime-ring-records-show-2025-03-26/

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azulequalsblue.bsky.social•25 days ago

This story should be BIGGER!

notjoemartinez.bsky.social•25 days ago

Unless you're withholding more evidence of a link between Coristine & EGodly, this feels like a mischaracterization of the events. EGodly using Coristine's publicly available service does not equate to direct collaboration. EGodly's Telegram message on its own is insufficient to prove a link.

notjoemartinez.bsky.social•25 days ago

I find it more believable that EGodly targeted DimondCDN because they knew it was run by a high schooler without the resources to do abuse auditing on the domains running through his CDN.

threw.bsky.social•25 days ago

So you're saying Coristine was so incompetent and unprofessional that he didn't care/ know that he was working with criminals then. I don't assume he's a genius, but Musk didn't hire him because he's incompetent.

notjoemartinez.bsky.social•25 days ago

Not even the biggest CDN providers can proactively prevent this type of abuse from happening. Cloudflare still mostly relies on user generated reports and that's on top of a department of auditors.

notjoemartinez.bsky.social•25 days ago

CDNs by design don't control the content that they deliver, they're just the intermediary between the host server and the end user. They also *shouldn't* be able to see the content of what they deliver either due to SSL/TLS encryption