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The Official DOGE Website Launch Was a Security Mess
Plus: Researchers find RedNote lacks basic security measures, surveillance ramps up around the US-Mexico border, and the UK ordering Apple to create an encryption backdoor comes under fire.
The website only started being populated this week—with some figures purporting to show the size of the US government—after Musk promised his organization would be “maximally transparent.” That transparency may have gone a step too far, however, with HuffPost reporting on Friday that the site included classified material. The flights mark a “dramatic escalation in activity,” the publication reports, and come as the Trump administration has designated drug cartels as terrorist organizations and has turned the nation’s security apparatus toward deporting millions of migrants. “If the UK does not immediately reverse this dangerous effort, we urge you to reevaluate US-UK cybersecurity arrangements and programs as well as US intelligence sharing with the UK,” the pair said, drawing comparisons to the Chinese-linked Salt Typhoon hacks of US telecom firms that utilized a surveillance “backdoor.” Since details of the order emerged, Human Rights Watch has called it an “ alarming overreach,” while 109 civil society organizations, companies, and other groups saying the “demand jeopardizes the security and privacy of millions.”
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