Your most personal data is about to be at Elon’s fingertips - ThreadSky

joshtpm.bsky.social • 3 days ago

Your most personal data is about to be at Elon’s fingertips

SCOOP: DOGE is hosting a “hackathon” in DC next week with the goal of building one “mega API” for accessing all IRS data.

Palantir has been brought up as a potential partner.

www.wired.com/story/doge-h...

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science-and-nature.bsky.social•2 days ago

Why are they are doing this the week before tax deadline? Any IT/tech gurus want to drop some knowledge on us about potential technical disasters that could come from this? Any potential ways for people to protect themselves, even a little?

tinyideas.bsky.social•3 days ago

@raskin.house.gov
@chrislhayes.bsky.social
@aoc.bsky.social

toomuchmelon.bsky.social•3 days ago

My incognito mode history?

plusbleuciel.bsky.social•3 days ago

Just curious: are there no white hat cyber hackers that can get into Musk and the DOGErs systems and mess them up?

happy2behere.bsky.social•3 days ago

And Peter Thiel through Palantir

prannon.bsky.social•3 days ago

And probably also at everyone else' fingertips too. I wouldn't trust these guys to build a secure API if my life counted on it. "Mega API" implies a ton of moving parts and new attack surfaces to move the data from where it is now to the new interface.

blue-n-al.bsky.social•3 days ago

This data includes routing numbers and bank account numbers. Do you think it has any value on the Dark Web?

zbo1.bsky.social•3 days ago

“Corcos has discussed plans for DOGE to build “one new API to rule them all,” making IRS data more easily accessible for cloud platforms.” Also he wants to “gamify” IRS data. (“There is a lot of stuff that I don't know that I am learning now” is not reassuring.)

norsetom.bsky.social•3 days ago

Generally, congressional Republicans have resisted making the IRS and “Big Government” more efficient—likely so their crooked supporters could get away with things. Will their blind loyalty to trump set the stage for when the Dems take back control?

kankansi.bsky.social•3 days ago

Wired has been doing great work reporting on DOGE. This is one of the most frightening pieces yet. No thought of security, no concerns for personal data, no deliberative process. Just “Let her rip!”
Where is Congress?

jerseypatrick.bsky.social•3 days ago

One more reason we’re protesting this afternoon.

harmonygritz.bsky.social•3 days ago

Saving Palantir the hard, thankless work of pretending not to be interested.

josalo.bsky.social•3 days ago

All Your Data Are Belong to Them.

elee9.bsky.social•3 days ago

I bet this also has something to do with the guy trump fired at the NSA too. The tech bros want a surveillance state and are eager to hook us up to computers.

ubejane.bsky.social•3 days ago

https://kyivindependent.com/it-would-be-foolish-not-to-admire-putin-elon-musks-father-errol-swoons-over-russian-president/

nycblu.bsky.social•3 days ago

What a sad human life, both Errol and Elon lead.

1silvergirl.bsky.social•3 days ago

What a sick mind Errol must have. And the apple doesn't fall far from the tree.

sarahdissents.bsky.social•3 days ago

Billionaire men and their daddy issues will be the death of us.

1silvergirl.bsky.social•3 days ago

It has happened so many times in history ...

brewsistance.bsky.social•3 days ago

I'll bet you a hundred bucks he says the same thing about Hitler.

azzuro112.bsky.social•3 days ago

Oh dear! The apple did not fall from the rotting tree.

lindabosredsoxy.bsky.social•3 days ago

Nazi racist fascist family!

rappstar.bsky.social•3 days ago

As awful as Musk and Trump are, they have at least done "something." It's Musk's parents and Trump's kids that take it to another level. I cannot understand why we give coverage to people whose sole claim to notoriety is being related to someone else who is famous.

djw1974.bsky.social•3 days ago

The rotten apple does not fall far from the poisoned tree.

repast.bsky.social•3 days ago

Another pompous douche with stupid hair.

msinformation.bsky.social•2 days ago

This guy is a fucking creep.

historiken.bsky.social•3 days ago

is there anyone in this family (apart from vivian, who has bailed) who is not stupid and awful

needmoresleep19.bsky.social•3 days ago

Musk Sr admires Putin.....

pjmacwriter.bsky.social•3 days ago

Sure, if you just put aside that he's a murdering brute.

n83z01qbui.bsky.social•3 days ago

@nick-carmody.bsky.social @davetroy.com

ellz.bsky.social•3 days ago

Gag

rocket-projects.bsky.social•3 days ago

that’s a fukkk father ya got there, leon. Be a shame if he fell off his wheelchair 🦽 and cracked his scull.

sybilltrelawney.bsky.social•3 days ago

It would be foolish to forget that Errol Musk married and fathered a child with his own stepdaughter. This makes Elon’s stepsister the mother of his half-sister.

skygirl47.bsky.social•3 days ago

Completely delusional. Explains his son.

jrfanboy.bsky.social•3 days ago

My misanthropy is rising

msmollympls.bsky.social•3 days ago

This piece of shit had kids with his stepdaughter. Nobody should fucking interview him @bbcnewsnight.bsky.social

magatzapper.bsky.social•3 days ago

I realize this can be said about most admin actions since 1/20, but this is blatantly illegal. How can it be stopped before it starts?

sequinpants.bsky.social•3 days ago

Elon already has lots of data on us from twitter that's attached to our emails if not our real names. He knows how many kids you have, what's important to you, who you voted for. Match that database with IRS data and the govt has everything they need to target nearly every Dem voter in America.

sequinpants.bsky.social•3 days ago

Twitter has been using AI on our data for years, way pre-Elon. For example, if you didn't tell them your gender, twitter would guess it based on your activity so it could serve you targeted ads. He has everything. Deleting your tweets or your account DID NOT delete that data.

sequinpants.bsky.social•3 days ago

Wait til Elon buys 23andme and matches up that database, too.

skynetandchill.com•3 days ago

Hope they don’t leak Musk and Zuckerberg and Thiel data

magidin.bsky.social•3 days ago

Hackathon: bad (prioritizes function, not the kind of security needed here).

Anything to do with connecting tax records with "the cloud": worse (vulnerabilities a-plenty)

With Palantir: worst.

districtofalex.bsky.social•3 days ago

To be forced to give up sensitive information when we know it’s facing a bigger insider threat than any risk from external actors is absolutely insane. The law is compelling us to give our data to criminals and thieves. I’m filing under duress.

ryan-mcleod.bsky.social•3 days ago

One of the first things everyone should do once this nightmare is over … is request a new SSN.

burtonad.bsky.social•3 days ago

He’s going to build a version of the Chinese Social Credit System.

steveknapp.bsky.social•3 days ago

Perhaps Americans should recognize that if they want to keep their privacy, they should ask the federal government to do only the things that the Constitution allows.
Dave Kopel

orangeplus.bsky.social•3 days ago

One of those kids working for him is going to sell the lot for a bank

7isamagicnumber.bsky.social•3 days ago

Ethical hackers should do a real hackathon and Wall of Shame on musk’s sites and AI services :). It can’t be hard.

kelpkelpkelp.bsky.social•3 days ago

My most personal data? I doubt it. He will never get my substandard and humiliating Mario Kart 64 record lap times.

no2sin.bsky.social•3 days ago

As scary and as outright bad as that is, letting Palantir have it is what should truly scare people.

jetaitkens.bsky.social•3 days ago

We’re at that point in the movie where the terrorists have assembled their team, have plotted their entry points and are loading the vans with weapons while the unsuspecting target, ready for the event gets a kiss from the spouse and the traitorous guard claps him on the back and says we’re clear.

tlandfried.bsky.social•3 days ago

They want to crawl through the data to see who donated to political parties and campaigns. The only purpose is efficiency in finding dirt and leverage against the people.

coloradotransplant.bsky.social•3 days ago

In what universe is this even remotely legal or acceptable?

true-bird.bsky.social•3 days ago

📌

honestdenverman.bsky.social•3 days ago

If the next Dem president doesn’t make reversing everything Elon has done and jailing him a major part of their campaign then all the resistance is for naught.

cagrizzly.bsky.social•2 days ago

Cyberattack

lilywight.bsky.social•2 days ago

Oh my god what unethical ignorant freakin' AMATEURS. There is a reason why systems are kept isolated from one another.

bonnielt.bsky.social•3 days ago

Hackathons are not how you rewrite government programs!! It’s just a way to get developers to work over a weekend to come up with processes, it without paying them!

mevrouwmeow.bsky.social•3 days ago

And maybe Peter Thiel’s too

metatheory.bsky.social•3 days ago

And Thiel's.

jach37.bsky.social•3 days ago

And an army of Big Balls.

tempura13.bsky.social•3 days ago

Elon is virtually attending a Northern League conference in Florence, Italy today.

Meanwhile
https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2025/04/05/irs-tax-data-immigration-enforcement/

jdvogt.bsky.social•3 days ago

I wonder if the fired head of the NSA and Cybersecurity would have had any concerns about DODGE and Palantir building "'one new API to rule them all', making IRS data more easily accessible for cloud platforms."