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The intelligence services of Russia, China, and other foreign adversaries are attempting to recruit U.S. federal workers who lost their jobs in the DOGE-directed massive layoffs, according to a report.

The countries appear to be attempting to take advantage of President Donald Trump’s plans to downsize the federal government, sources familiar with American intelligence on the matter told CNN.

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[–] Nightwingdragon@lemmy.world 14 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Think of how many workers have been fired since the start of Trump's term.

Think of how many of those workers still have access to the systems they used to work on because DOGE has no idea what they're doing and these agencies simply haven't had time to revoke the access of these people.

Now think of what happens if .1% of those people either sell out to or are compromised by Russian and Chinese spies. Just one pissed off systems administrator. That's all it would take. One systems administrator either intentionally selling out or themselves being compromised and suddenly the Chinese government has admin access to our critical systems.

[–] coyootje@lemmy.world 2 points 5 days ago

What makes you think they don't already have that with who's in charge now? If Trump is so close with Putin then he's also automatically in kahoots with Mr pooh bear.