During the weekend, Elon Musk respondent His fans on X – the platform that spent $ 44 billion to buy – asking whether federal employees should be forced to send an email to his team with a list of five things that have achieved this week. With the votes of YES totaling more than 70%, Musk followed. Federal employees received an email from the US Personnel Management Office (Opm) This weekend, requesting the weekly list of their achievements by 11:59 pm Et on Monday.
“According to [President Donald Trump’s] Instructions, all federal employees will soon receive an email asking to understand what happened last week ”, Musk I wrote In X. “The inability to respond will be taken as a resignation.”
With millions of employees across the federal government, the email address operating with Doge and the content of the email was required to leak. As federal employees are threatened to lose their jobs, people on social media platforms such as Red; Tikitok; Threadand Blue They call each other to unwelcome to the e -mail address now publicly nonsense.
This is a common tactic of online resistance when something like a controversial form for public comment or email address comes out.
In one case, so many people sent the full script of the movie “Bee” – A Repeated joke on the internet -In a “Snitch form” anti-trans in missouri that the limb line had been offline. People similarly answered with a Texas Inbox Tracking the gender index changes driver’s licenses as well as a bathroom against trans complaint In Utah.
This online vigilance sometimes merges into specific communities, such as the K-Pop Fandom. In 2020, Dallas police asked people to send them videos of illegal activity during protests after police for the murder of George Floyd. Instead, Korean superstar fans like BTS spammed the application of the police stupidly inflation video.
Trump’s critics have used these tactics from the first week of his term of office when his administration set up Dedicated email accounts Asking employees to report non -compliance with the president’s executive orders to disassemble the programs to disassemble diversity, equality and integration (dei). Employees were threatened with unclear “adverse consequences” if they withheld information on efforts “conceal the connection” between Dei initiatives and government contracts.
Although OPM is a long -term government agency, these new special special e -mail addresses are new. Federal employees received an email for the first time from the OPM HR email address in January, checking whether it could be used to communicate with all government workers in an e -mail explosion. This move triggered a class class trial by two complainants Who claim to violate the federal privacy law to create this brand new email server without following established security measures.
These security protocols exist for some reason. In 2015, OPM has been tired, compromising sensitive data from security history checks for safety for security 21.5 million people. This included the social security number of each of these people, as well as biometric data of 1.1 million people. Musk’s Doge team, meanwhile, has been granted unprecedented power and wide access In these government systems with little resistance.
It is not clear how effectively the dog will be discouraged by this Mass Spam campaign. Since ordinary people do not have .gov email addresses, it is likely that the Musk team could simply filter their inbox for email addresses only by the government. Inbox could also collapse under the huge volume of mail it will receive. If the Musk Doge group uses a natural server, then the amount of data it may contain is finite.
Although these efforts are likely to be in vain, people who resist Musk policies are not discouraged – in the end, it does not take long to copy and paste The full script of the movie “Bee” in an email.
