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Kim Perales

isn't just a menace, he's one of America's greatest national security threats. “On the phone with Defense, Musk volunteered that he had been speaking with Putin personally and then said that he was looking at his laptop and could see ‘the entire war unfolding’ through a map of Starlink activity.” newyorker.com/magazine/2023/08

@KimPerales If I'm in cyberstrategy/cybersecurity on the UKR side, I looked at Starlink about 18 months ago & said 'we absolutely need to be establishing decoy patterns on the Starlink network.'

...but yeah, that's hella scary on one level. It's a case study for not letting a CEO have access to secure systems. (They almost never should, anywhere.)

That having been said, Musk has far less engineering skill than he thinks he does & he probably doesn't see what he thinks he's seeing.

@KimPerales SpaceX should have become a division of NASA the instant they were the only way NASA could send humans to space.

@KimPerales #ElonMusk is just like #Trump. He's insecure and needs to brag. Both are not the smartest people.

@KimPerales It isn't simply #Musk that puts #Starlink at risk, it is his Board of Directors. He needs advisors help him to understand #authoritarian regimes confiscate #oligarchs wealth and send them flying from windows. Musk's unilateral decisions have been alarmingly misguided. I am not alone, it's obvious something has broken in his analysis process

@KimPerales If this were a Bond movie, 007 would be getting a briefing from "M" right now.

@KimPerales Odds that NSA was listening to the conversations with Putin?

@KimPerales Spoken like an uber-wealthy putz so screened off from the consequences of his own actions that he believes life is a simulation

@KimPerales This makes me think of him.

I'm truly sorry for the pain it causes him, but I'm even more sorry for the pain he can and will cause 🌍.