A whopping 13,000 federal employees reportedly received an abusive email on Thursday after a new broadcast system was quickly exploited.
    • @halcyoncmdr@lemmy.worldEnglish
      22•13 hours ago

      Certainly seems that way, and I can only think of 3 reasons for that.

      1. Incompetence, whoever set it up doesn’t know how to limit the email group to only authorized or even just internal-only emails.
      2. An oversight, same scenario as the first, but just a step missed in the setup process as opposed to incompetence.
      3. Whoever set it up purposely didn’t set it up correctly so this exact scenario would occur.
      • @jonne@infosec.pub
        18•12 hours ago

        I’m guessing they opened it up so people from DOGE could send email blasts to all federal employees without going through the normal agency channels, and they couldn’t figure out how to whitelist just one address, so they just opened it up to everyone and hoped nobody would notice.

        • Flying Squid
          16•11 hours ago

          Sounds like the sort of “innovation” you would expect from tech bros like Musk.