Two members of Elon Musk’s DOGE have been given accounts on classified networks that hold highly guarded details about America’s nuclear weapons, two independent sources tell NPR.

Luke Farritor, a 23-year-old former SpaceX intern, and Adam Ramada, a Miami-based venture capitalist, have had accounts on the computer systems for at least two weeks, according to the sources who also have access to the networks.

Prior to their work at DOGE, neither Farritor nor Ramada appear to have had experience with either nuclear weapons or handling classified information.

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    Debating whether the government sysadmin tasked to hand out accounts put them in a “moron CEO jail” environment where they can’t actually do anything, or “lol screw it” and gave them all the access because he isn’t paid enough for this.

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    When Putin meets the rest of the KGB in hell they’re not going to believe how he did this.

    “So you just convinced them to elect an idiot and they folded? And they don’t even care that you did it?!”

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    And with the amount of incompetence we’ve seen I’m sure it’ll be sometime within the next month that 4chan has access to our nuclear weapons. Good job America, you gave a bunch of internet edgelords like Musk nuclear weapons.

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    …neither Farritor nor Ramada appear to have had experience with… nuclear weapons…

    This seems like a step in the direction of getting us all some experience with nuclear weapons. Thank you, Department Of Getting Evaporated!

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      I mean, I know there won’t be legal action for DOGE members, but I do love the part where we’re publishing their names. Let’s keep that up.

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      It’s waaaay too late for that.

      They’re sending stuff directly to Russia via starlink, almost instantly after gaining access to networks. In at least one case someone with an IP in Russia tried to log in to one of the newly created DOGE accounts, with the real credentials.

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    Well… Nuclear apocalypse is certainly one way to ensure that we won’t need to pay federal income tax any longer.