Musk aides lock government workers out of computer systems at US agency

We're getting accustomed to saying "this is wild" but, still, this is pretty wild. It's all speculative what's going on with the data while the staff is locked out, but few directions are really implausible. If access control and activity logging can get turned off, wouldn't all records be subject to updating or deleting? Or data sets simply copied off for later analysis as an enemies list?

I'd expect the civil service to be completely tainted following this admin. Any change of party will require the incoming admin to have a massive onboarding process to undo this one.

I'm sure this will be flagged soon enough, but people need to know that there is an unprecedented, hostile, and (seemingly) illegal blitzkrieg happening against the federal civil service. Doors are being barricaded. Strange servers are being installed by unknown individuals. People with decades of institutional experience are getting pushed out the door.

First-hand accounts can be found here: https://old.reddit.com/r/fednews/

Related:

Elon Musk Lackeys Have Taken over the Office of Personnel Management

https://www.wired.com/story/elon-musk-lackeys-office-personn... (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42861763)

Who are the people doing this? What are their clearances? Who authorized them to do any of this?

A random group of nobodies given power by an oligarch with no real delegated power of their own shouldn't be able to interfere with career officials. They should be arrested and thrown in jail.

So, in terms of how bad this is... should we expect a data dump of every US federal employees to show up somewhere in the darknet or Russian intelligence headquarters? Or is that still a week or two away from now?

So the branch on which one sits is sawn off while one sings: "Where there is planing, there are spars!"