What is interesting to me is how those two things are mixing. Theoretically any one of us could own a russian domain and any one of us could get a job at NLRB (or another gov agency) but our jobs and our ownership of that domain are two entirely separate things.
What's interesting here is how these two things are seemingly mixing. At this point I have two pet theories:
- One of the DOGE staffers is a Russian agent: This one I'm putting in the camp of "highly highly unlikely" but still possible given those login attempts from Russia.
- The more likely theory is this is just some braindead attempt to "own the libs". If we look back 6-8 years to when all the Trump Russia stuff came out and turned into a nothingburger. This could be some idea like: "Yo I've got this VM in Russia, let's own the libs and make them thin the Russians are invading again!"
- It could also be completley innocouous. Like right now I have a Mullvad VPN setup on my machine that points to Algeria. Ubuntu will auto start this VPN at login. What if one of DOGE staffers just happened to have a VPN running with an exit in Russia when they tried logging in.
What's interesting here is how these two things are seemingly mixing. At this point I have two pet theories:
- One of the DOGE staffers is a Russian agent: This one I'm putting in the camp of "highly highly unlikely" but still possible given those login attempts from Russia.
- The more likely theory is this is just some braindead attempt to "own the libs". If we look back 6-8 years to when all the Trump Russia stuff came out and turned into a nothingburger. This could be some idea like: "Yo I've got this VM in Russia, let's own the libs and make them thin the Russians are invading again!"
- It could also be completley innocouous. Like right now I have a Mullvad VPN setup on my machine that points to Algeria. Ubuntu will auto start this VPN at login. What if one of DOGE staffers just happened to have a VPN running with an exit in Russia when they tried logging in.