Comment by zuzululu
13 hours ago
I'm just amused how these people were even hired to begin with ? They don't seem to be Americans? How were they even allowed to work on sensitive systems? Why was this even allowed? So many questions.
At 4:58 pm, he wiped out a Department of Homeland Security database using the command “DROP DATABASE dhsproddb.”
At 4:59 pm, he asked an AI tool, “How do i clear system logs from SQL servers after deleting databases?” He later asked, “How do you clear all event and application logs from Microsoft windows server 2012?”
In the space of a single hour, Muneeb deleted around 96 databases with US government information.
They were born in Maryland, and apparently quite skilled (or at least skilled at cheating their way through their studies, if not genuinely technically skilled).
https://www.somdnews.com/archive/news/19-year-old-twins-high...
...nobody skilled need to ask AI how to delete stuff
I would imagine they lied about having a felony conviction on their job applications, and that for whatever banal reason any background check service they used didn't flag it, or the contractor was so grossly incompetent they didn't even check.
>> They don't seem to be Americans? How did you conclude that? Just their names?
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A few other circumstantial things lightly hint at the twins not being typically American:
1. Obliviousness to local laws and oversight (and the combination of severity of punishment + likelihood of getting caught); most Americans of their intelligence would be aware, and would not engage in the sort of hijinks they did.
2. Working with sibling (anecdotal, but seems slightly more common among immigrant families than locals, which would make sense since, on average, immigrants have fewer local connections than locals so the likelihood of working with siblings increases)
3. Loyalty to family (evidenced through the brazenness in the way they helped each other in criminal acts without a second thought). Americans, on average, are more individualist and hesitate more when asked by family to do something criminal
4. A lot of immigrants eventually adopt anglicised names, which neither of these two did
If a detective looked at these facts, they'd keep an open mind as there's nothing definitive above, but it would be equally ignorant to ignore the circumstantial evidence.
Having said all this, do we care where they're from? (unless it's a potential case of foreign interference or theft from an untouchable overseas company, which doesn't seem to be the case here)
> "most Americans of their intelligence would be aware"
that would still leave up to 49% Americans not being aware. so how did you conclude that they were not Americans? Also, how did you measure their intelligence?
> "slightly more common among immigrant families than locals"
even if true, how did you conclude that these were not Americans?
> "Americans, on average, are more individualist and hesitate more when asked by family to do something criminal"
even if on average Americans are more so, how did you conclude that these were not Americans?
> "A lot of immigrants eventually adopt anglicised names"
from your sentence it seems a lot of them don't. so how did you conclude that these were not Americans?
It would be a disaster for immigrants in your area if you were ever hired into some kind of investigative/law enforcement role.
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These are not remotely indicators that someone is an American citizen.
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If their names were Eric and Donald Jr., surely they wouldn't have been doing petty crimes like these two...
I mean it's the DHS. Let's not pretend they're known for competence or hiring the best and brightest. Glorified chimps with ties and guns.
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That was not AT ALL what was implied and you know it.
I too am shocked at the level of federal access that was afforded to these non-Americans that clearly also hold a disdain for the country.
They are US citizens, though. Kinda shitty that everyone is just assuming based on their names that they aren't.