DOGE Building Master Database to Surveil/Track Immigrants

... DOGE is knitting together data from the Department of Homeland Security, Social Security Administration, and IRS that could create a surveillance tool of unprecedented scope. ...

Yeah,I agree about the "unprecedented scope" aspect.

But I do not think for a moment that it stops, as the title suggests, at immigrants.

Why would DOGE place a Starlink communication device in a Government office?

Why Elon Musk installed his top lieutenants at a federal agency you probably haven't heard of
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... On the rooftop patio of the General Services Administration headquarters, an agency staffer recently discovered something strange: a rectangular device attached to a wire that snaked across the roof, over the ledge and into the administrator's window one floor below.

It didn't take long for the employee -- an IT specialist -- to figure out the device was a transceiver that communicates with Elon Musk's vast and private Starlink satellite network. Concerned that the equipment violated federal laws designed to protect public data, staffers reported the discovery to superiors and the agency's internal watchdog.

The Starlink equipment raises a host of questions about what Musk and his efficiency czars are doing at GSA, an obscure agency that is playing an outsized role in the Trump administration's quest to slash costs and bring the federal government to heel. ...

OK, given the quick access of DOGE usernames and passwords by Pres Putin, my first questions would be...

1) why is this Starlink device necessary?

2) who has access via this Starlink device?

@#4 ... It's not obscure, and I don't see the point of the article. ...

imo, publicly, the GSA is obscure. And that is what DOGE seems to be relying upon.

... It sort of makes sense DOGE wants a terminal there. ...

The placing of a Starlink terminal there, while a concern for me, is not my major concern.

My major concern is -- who might be given access to our Federal data via that Starlink terminal?

We have already seen apparent intrusions by Russia via DOGE.

How has DOGE hardened it's security since then?

And, if I may dare to ask, have the members of the DOGE team (including Mr Musk) passed a real security investigation?

@#6 ... I'm pretty StarLink is secure ...

That's my concern.

Starlink may be secure.

But the security of a network is different than the security of the credentials to access that network.

Who has access to that secure network?

That there has been testimony to Congress of a Russian breach withing 15 minutes of a DOGE person being given access credentials, and using that DOGE person's access credentials, illustrates to me there seems to be a significant security issue within DOGE.

How has that apparent security issue been addressed and, hopefully, resolved?

I've not seen anything to that effect besides deflection.