Big Balls’s past gets more scrutiny — including the internship where he was terminated. “You’re willing to risk our entire network to a 17-year-old?” one frustrated executive asked the company’s CEO in 2022. “Are you for real right now?” @cnn.com www.cnn.com/2025/02/21/p... - ThreadSky

carlquintanilla.bsky.social • 7 hours ago

Big Balls’s past gets more scrutiny — including the internship where he was terminated.

“You’re willing to risk our entire network to a 17-year-old?” one frustrated executive asked the company’s CEO in 2022. “Are you for real right now?”

@cnn.com
https://www.cnn.com/2025/02/21/politics/doge-musk-edward-coristine-invs/index.html

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yourcanadiangf.bsky.social•7 hours ago

amazing how easy it is to get security clearances now.

jsevia.bsky.social•5 hours ago

Not to mention landing a high paying, high responsibility job with little to no work experience.

wilhelmusjanus.bsky.social•7 hours ago

Side-note: in Germany, a 16 year old can vote.

Just saying.

Madness has no limits.

burl77.bsky.social•6 hours ago

Americans need to Fire Big Balls!!

gojiwave.bsky.social•3 hours ago

And he just so happens to be related to a supposedly turncoat Soviet spy? Yeah I don't think so. Putin's infiltration into America isn't subtle or sneaky. Republicans have to WANT Putin to own this country for any of this to make sense.

decmusicology.bsky.social•5 hours ago

“You’re willing to risk our entire [internal corporate] network to a 17-year-old?” one frustrated executive asked the company’s CEO in 2022. “Are you for real right now?”

Oh, my sweet summer child

Wait'll you get a load of the next network he will be entrusted with

terps3040.bsky.social•5 hours ago

I really want a journalist to find out if anyone at DOGE has taken any of the required training

bicyclebaskets.bsky.social•1 hour ago

Yikes.

kennypowers55.bsky.social•7 hours ago

Great job, Trumpers. Everyone else was lying except for Trump, right? Stupid motherf#$%&*

satantrump.bsky.social•3 minutes ago

You’re nicer than me I say the bad words out loud! Really loud!

nathkovich.bsky.social•6 hours ago

Even when the media gets it right it gets it wrong. It’s not just his age and inexperience. The article points to level of dishonesty that’s even more concerning.

noodle557.bsky.social•6 hours ago

Your Reps and the Senate
202-224-3121
tell them
you know
The Pee Tapes are deciding Americas future now
holding her
isolated bound beat and held hostage
to
Putin and Elon
WHAT ARE YOU GONNA DO?
Learn to Goosestep to the Russian National Anthem
or
Fight the
FUCKERS
STAND UP FOR AMERICA NOW

patv23o.bsky.social•6 hours ago

Exposing Americans to possible identify theft also DOGE has access to people's banking info, they can just drain accounts.

cannonball-titcomb.bsky.social•6 hours ago

Of course, he has Russian KGB ties.

https://www.jacobsilverman.com/p/prominent-doge-staffer-is-grandson

somewherein72.bsky.social•7 hours ago

I'm guessing all of those "$100 bills laying on the floor" aren't from a summer lemonade stand. What's a 17 year old doing to get paid in 100 dollar bills that will be carelessly thrown on the floor?

dimitriana.bsky.social•4 hours ago

And his grandfather was a KGB turned spy for the USA? Anyone ask if this a long game double agent implant of the entire family?

mrdurden2u.bsky.social•5 hours ago

Big balls doesn’t know who deep throat is. Such irony

stonefeathers.bsky.social•6 hours ago

If true
wtf

https://gizmodo.com/doge-staffer-known-as-big-balls-reportedly-the-grandkid-of-a-kgb-spy-2000567020

laukidh.bsky.social•5 hours ago

“because he didn’t want to make him “an enemy” or have him “running amok” with information he was suspected of taking.”

Seems like this should mention that he was fired following an investigation into leaking info to a competitor.

ohdonna26.bsky.social•7 hours ago

Supposedly one of the interns moved his wife and baby into the dept.

bookersghost.bsky.social•5 hours ago

Can someone give me the cliffnotes version? I refuse to click CNN links.

msmsfit2022.bsky.social•6 hours ago

No surprise they wanted a known cyber criminal at DOGE.

emzorbit.bsky.social•4 hours ago

Big Balls is now an employee at CISA (Cybersecruity and Infrastructure Security). https://www.wired.com/story/doge-cisa-coristine-cybersecurity/

alissa914.bsky.social•6 hours ago

And it's like all the pieces come together as to why Trump and Elon wanted to circumvent background checks.

flywrangler.bsky.social•2 hours ago

So much for the brilliance of people in silicon valley. Why on Earth would we drop security standards and allow Big balls (and others) access to such sensitive confidential information?

Well I admire many people in silicon valley. There is a good reason why they don't work in government.

johnnycee.bsky.social•5 hours ago

It is a coup.

nrgizemrscott.bsky.social•3 hours ago

I'm shocked that the CEO didn't want to make an enemy of a 17 yr old kid. That says a lot. And bet he didn't know the kids KGB pedigree.

exposurejb.bsky.social•7 hours ago

Of course the worst of the worst are welcomed fully engaged supported and emboldened.

This/every coup requires that precise type of character in active willful participation.

All. Complicit.
Every. Fucking. Single. One.

Right STILL matters here.
People will rise yet again

democracyxxxx.bsky.social•4 hours ago

Sums it up well...... Trump Fascist Dictator - wake up America! Fight Back!

sofiaapophis.bsky.social•6 hours ago

visiblemusic.bsky.social•7 hours ago

https://www.jacobsilverman.com/p/prominent-doge-staffer-is-grandson

bazbro.bsky.social•6 hours ago

I can just imagine foreign governments planning their honey pot scams right now. With someone called big balls how could it fail?

revbug.bsky.social•4 hours ago

So they were afraid of a petulant man child?

osublakester.bsky.social•6 hours ago

I'll give a dozen eggs to the first reporter that asks Lindsey Graham "Are you a Big Balls supporter?"

boudicasal.bsky.social•4 hours ago

I’ll add a dozen!

bookersghost.bsky.social•5 hours ago

"Why, yes I am!"

lovewins85.bsky.social•5 hours ago

We really need some laughs right now. Thank you.

lynnmilez.bsky.social•48 minutes ago

🤌

agdun72.bsky.social•5 hours ago

In the UK, a 17 year old wouldn't be left in charge of the office copier, never mind the entire IT infrastructure... He'd be laughed out of the building

shirllymarkiewicz.bsky.social•1 hour ago

If you haven't frozen your credit lines with the 3 credit reporting companies; now is the time. It doesn't affect your current credit cards or loans & when you apply for anything unfreeze for the time.

ggegan.bsky.social•6 hours ago

maverick72.bsky.social•4 hours ago

He seems nice…🤦🏻‍♀️

antiquequaalude.bsky.social•5 hours ago

His grandfather was also literally a Soviet spy.

n83z01qbui.bsky.social•6 hours ago

#MoronMusk #ElonFungus
@nick-carmody.bsky.social

bsbeamer.bsky.social•5 hours ago

Can we just start calling him Blue Balls?

genwacc.bsky.social•5 hours ago

And let's not forget that his grandfather was in the KGB...

jim0novak.bsky.social•6 hours ago

Reminder: even for the LOWEST level of security screening in the federal government, this type of conduct is screened for.

Like to be hired as a receptionist at the State Department!

marktl.bsky.social•5 hours ago

They will be so much intel and info up for sale when the boys of winter are gone.

stuartdonaldson22.bsky.social•2 hours ago

I love Coastine’s response that had done “nothing contractually wrong”

sorrykb.bsky.social•5 hours ago

“[The CEO] said he wanted to allow Coristine to continue with his internship, in part, because he didn’t want to make him ‘an enemy’ or have him ‘running amok’ with information he was suspected of taking.”

And now that enemy is running amok with OUR government data.

melissahbuckner.bsky.social•6 hours ago

Come by on. “Big Balls” still has camp counselor on his CV. Now it turns out he reportedly is a grandson of a notorious KGB spy.

bettybythebeech.bsky.social•6 hours ago

It’s in the jeans.
Pun intended.

melissahbuckner.bsky.social•5 hours ago

Tinkler, tailor, solider, spy.

melissahbuckner.bsky.social•5 hours ago

The mother of all secrets; of all databases. Maybe it’s why they are moving so fast?

melissahbuckner.bsky.social•6 hours ago

👇

sdrose.bsky.social•4 hours ago

The mass firings are one thing, but these kids having GOD access to our data, not to mention critical natsec data, is worrisome in the extreme.

lesliesherman.bsky.social•4 hours ago

Not just access….but an M.O. for leaking and selling hacked information.
This kid needs to be imprisoned, YESTERDAY!

sdrose.bsky.social•23 minutes ago

That’s pretty harsh. Legal processes and all that must come first. I’d settle for him ODing on ketamine & Coke.

kstroopwafel.bsky.social•6 hours ago

Kleptobaby

kimmasters.bsky.social•5 hours ago

Elon is the Bond villain that MGM needs.

chuckgoat.bsky.social•4 hours ago

Do people not know how bad an intern has to be to get fired? By definition, an intern has a termination date on their first day. It's so easy to just put them in a corner and let them play angry birds, you don't bother filing forms unless they represent a danger to some part of the organization.

bgesus.bsky.social•7 hours ago

Beyond insanity. Having worked with a number of these systems the fact he is inserting code tells me a few things: he is not doing anything meaningful to the code but is creating back doors or feeds or he is making changes and has no idea what he is doing

anonymouse-dev.bsky.social•4 hours ago

Most likely he is just being used as an attack vector for more competent engineers: they have been planning this for years.
'Big ball's job amounts to inserting a USB stick, run a few commands and he's done.

nickoftime5546.bsky.social•6 hours ago

he is one of the muskovites that in fact, had access to servers to a company he was fired from..

mebasia.bsky.social•6 hours ago

He’s doing what he was instructed to do, by whom is the question. Is he making it easier for our systems to be hacked. He/they gotta go!!!!!

skowalchuk.bsky.social•5 hours ago

I’m not sure which is more worrying, the back doors, or just random code that will crash the system.

bgesus.bsky.social•5 hours ago

Me either

anthcap.bsky.social•6 hours ago

Russian and Chinese agents are probably all over this guy.

danob11.bsky.social•5 hours ago

Where can I see that video of the dude chugging white claws and threatening his coworkers?

kellonearth.bsky.social•6 hours ago

Can we just call this kid by his government name and not play into these people's incessant immaturity?

Edward Corsitine.

vealllc.bsky.social•5 hours ago

Coristine!

Big Balls is easier to spell

unseriousdiana.bsky.social•5 hours ago

No. It highlights how fucking ridiculous it is that someone whose recent linked listed his camp counselor work, and internships, and that name, has access to America's internal data. He is a hacker.

marc-andreroche.bsky.social•2 hours ago

President Musk, after dismantling every agency controling his companies, now has sensitive informations on all his competitors.

scottman2020.bsky.social•6 hours ago

Let's not give these idiots the dignity of badass nicknames. I think something like "Little Eddie" might be more appropriate.

unseriousdiana.bsky.social•5 hours ago

Holy hell. Anyone else feeling extremely violated right now? He hired young people with no govt experience, only experience as hackers. Musk and his hackers need to go. Period.

mhobart.bsky.social•5 hours ago

The lawless recklessness is almost incomprehensible. The failure to stop it is infuriating.

lulyisoverit.bsky.social•6 hours ago

Translated - Cojones Grandes

warren-gates.bsky.social•6 hours ago

take note. read this

jdschwartz.bsky.social•7 hours ago

@carlquintanilla.bsky.social big balls is a feature not a bug.

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