Elon Musk secretly ordered his engineers to turn off his company’s Starlink satellite communications network near the Crimean coast last year to disrupt a Ukrainian sneak attack on the Russian naval fleet, according to an excerpt adapted from Walter Isaacson’s new biography of the eccentric billionaire titled “Elon Musk.”
Elon Musk biographer admits suggestion SpaceX head blocked Ukraine drone attack was wrong:
True, but having security clearance doesn’t really give you authorization to snoop on communications and act on them. And it kind of blows his excuse of “just wanting to give people netflix to chill” out of the water.
I hope he faces some serious repercussions over all this, but part of me doubts he will.
He has a fucking top secret clearance. That means US Satellites could probably see the fucking Ukrainians preparing this stuff or something like that.
Top Secret clearance means full access to the US spy information network for fucks sake.
Information he’d have need to know so that he can fly starlink satellites in a way to still let US spy satellites see the war, for example. He just needs a need to know and bam, he will have the authorization to get spy info.
My uncle is a retired intelligence officer for the Marines btw. Top Secret is literally the top secret clearance. No higher clearance exists. All that bullshit with Manning was only at the Secret level for example.
Having Top Secret clearance doesn’t automatically give you access to all of the information. As you said, it’s still based off need to know, they arent just going to give him all military intelligence related to satellites, they will just give him the specific information they need him to act on.
No one is saying that the classification system doesn’t need some work. It’s just an incomparable situation, Musk isn’t going to have months of free reign to just peruse the systems as Jack did.
Counterintuitively it’s easier for low level employees to gain access to more, as they have to do more general work that necessitates broader access. In those cases extreme oversight measures should be used, and they were not.
Elon Musk has a top-secret clearance due to SpaceX, NASA, and Department of Defense contracts.
That’s the thing: this guy STILL has access to the top-secret wartime intelligence networks, today. This is absolutely a problem.
True, but having security clearance doesn’t really give you authorization to snoop on communications and act on them. And it kind of blows his excuse of “just wanting to give people netflix to chill” out of the water.
I hope he faces some serious repercussions over all this, but part of me doubts he will.
Who said he spied using Starlink?
He has a fucking top secret clearance. That means US Satellites could probably see the fucking Ukrainians preparing this stuff or something like that.
Top Secret clearance means full access to the US spy information network for fucks sake.
Information he’d have need to know so that he can fly starlink satellites in a way to still let US spy satellites see the war, for example. He just needs a need to know and bam, he will have the authorization to get spy info.
My uncle is a retired intelligence officer for the Marines btw. Top Secret is literally the top secret clearance. No higher clearance exists. All that bullshit with Manning was only at the Secret level for example.
Having Top Secret clearance doesn’t automatically give you access to all of the information. As you said, it’s still based off need to know, they arent just going to give him all military intelligence related to satellites, they will just give him the specific information they need him to act on.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2022–2023_Pentagon_document_leaks
Goddamn E3, equivalent to a damn Private First Class, of the National Guard had this level of access.
Come on man. Don’t downplay what Top Secret entails. The discord leak just happened a few months ago.
No one is saying that the classification system doesn’t need some work. It’s just an incomparable situation, Musk isn’t going to have months of free reign to just peruse the systems as Jack did.
Counterintuitively it’s easier for low level employees to gain access to more, as they have to do more general work that necessitates broader access. In those cases extreme oversight measures should be used, and they were not.