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DOGE Now Has Access to the Top US Cybersecurity Agency


DOGE technologists Edward Coristine—the 19-year-old known online as “Big Balls”—and Kyle Schutt are now listed as staff at the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency.

Edward Coristine, a 19-year-old engineer with Elon Musk’s so-called Department of Government Efficiency(DOGE) known as “Big Balls,” is now on staff at the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), WIRED has confirmed. Coristine—briefly an intern for Musk’s brain-computer interface company, Neuralink, as WIRED has reported —has been working his way through numerous federal agencies and departments as a DOGE operative since January. The Washington Post reported last week that Coristine had been assigned to the DHS as a senior advisor, but didn’t indicate what part of the sprawling agency he had joined.

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