> Furthermore, on Monday, April 7, 2025, while my client and my team were preparing this disclosure, someone physically taped a threatening note to Mr. Berulis’ home door with photographs – taken via a drone – of him walking in his neighborhood. The threatening note made clear reference to this very disclosure he was preparing for you, as the proper oversight authority. While we do not know specifically who did this, we can only speculate that it involved someone with the ability to access NLRB systems. This “meat space” action – where a threat was physically delivered to my client’s home – is absolutely disturbing in its manner and the implications suggested therein. Accordingly, and we have been and will continue to be coordinating with appropriate law enforcement agencies.
My read on this is that one or more of the DOGE engineers is either using compromised hardware (more likely) or is themselves compromised (less likely).
Why would you say that? More than one DOGE engineer has been linked to cyber-crime gangs. I don't think it's the biggest stretch to say they're already "morally ambiguous" and not above taking foreign money.
Especially for those older than 16 i've noticed. You have like an inert dunning kruger effect (you start midly arrogant, your arrogance grow and grow until you trule learn some skills and your arrogance decrease, slowly.) I like my red team friends in general, but if you just graduated from script kiddy to a real job: people mostly entertain/endure you because they know you will grow out of it, but the faster you do, the better.
This is INSANE stuff
0xWTF•1mo ago
iraliaf•1mo ago
"Mr. Berulis is coming forward today because of his concern that recent activity by members of the Department of Government Efficiency (“DOGE”) have resulted in a significant cybersecurity breach that likely has and continues to expose our government to foreign intelligence and our nation’s adversaries"
operative words here being "likely has"
mikekij•1mo ago
The fact that the traffic appeared to be coming from Russia isn't particularly compelling, as it's very easy to make your web traffic appear to be coming from another country. But I struggle to understand why a legitimate user of those credentials would willfully make their legitimate use of government systems appear to be coming from an adversary.
delusional•1mo ago
>received a call during which an ACIO stated instructions were given that we were not to adhere to SOP with the doge account creation in regards to creating records. He specifically was told that there were to be no logs or records made of the accounts created for DOGE employees. DOGE officials required the highest level of access and unrestricted access to internal systems. They were to be given what are referred to as “tenant owner” level accounts
If you seek the opinion of a "security expert" I'd recommend reading the sworn affidavit in Exhibit A. He seems competent, and perjury there seems less likely than here on HN. It's quite well formulated.
Rygian•1mo ago
If you ask me, it's the equivalent of the FBI inviting themselves into your home, telling you to "not come back until tomorrow" and then bugging it cellar to roof.
orwin•1mo ago
It seems the witleblower is _very_ competent and the story checks out (i know only two persons that could do that alone and that quick and they are true greybeards who've seen it all). Impressive work.
So either he is very well prepared and built an extremely good lie (frankly i don't see why, his discoveries will be audited and the only stuff he did was show how good of an engineer he is), or US government systems are indeed breached, and probably because of those "DOGE" accounts. Is it by malice, greed or incompetence? Malice is out imho, my bet is on incompetence.