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Riley Sennott, 26, is listed as a "senior advisor" in an internal NASA directory, similar to the nebulous titles given to some DOGE staff in other agencies. His name and involvement with DOGE have not been previously reported.

Like many other DOGE workers, he deleted his LinkedIn profile and made his X account private in recent months. However, Sennott did not make the Google Calendar linked to his personal email address private.

Anyone with the address could see every appointment Sennott had on the calendar going back to 2016. On January 6, for example, the calendar included a 15-minute event titled "Riley Sennott and DOGE Recruiting." The invite came from a Gmail address that DOGE appeared to be using for recruiting.

A calendar appointment from 2023 noted that Sennott "is currently working with a non-profit team in Ukraine to efficiently deliver aid and support evacuations." The blurb said that Sennott studied symbolic systems and environmental studies in college, "briefly dabbled in consulting," and has an "entrepreneurial spirit." His calendar also showed several events related to an internship at Booz Allen Hamilton in 2021.

"The Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) has arrived onsite at the agency. We anticipate that they will start reviewing our contracts to find efficiencies," the email reads, according to a copy reviewed by BI.

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[–] Sam_Bass@lemmy.world 5 points 20 hours ago

Hope y'all booted them out

[–] SplashJackson@lemmy.ca 28 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (3 children)

Going back to 2016? What appointments does a 17-year-old got that he gotta write down?

[–] Legume5534@lemm.ee 9 points 19 hours ago

I'm in my thirties and I was using Google calendar in high school 🤷‍♂️

[–] grysbok@lemmy.sdf.org 12 points 1 day ago

Class schedule and track meetups?

[–] ayyy@sh.itjust.works -2 points 1 day ago (3 children)

Tell me your rich parents coddled you without telling me your rich parents coddled you.

[–] can@sh.itjust.works 0 points 4 hours ago

...you ever heard of paper?

[–] Padit@feddit.org 11 points 21 hours ago (2 children)

Why such a snarky remark? Why not just answer OPs questions and create a welcoming, entertaining, educative environment for all of us?

[–] ayyy@sh.itjust.works 2 points 3 hours ago

Because they were being incredibly rude and infantilizing to teenagers. You don’t have to be nice to assholes.

[–] AwesomeLowlander@sh.itjust.works 5 points 21 hours ago

Rich parents taught him the art of the put down.

[–] SplashJackson@lemmy.ca 5 points 22 hours ago

Close, poverty and adhd

[–] atzanteol@sh.itjust.works 16 points 1 day ago

Nobody grabbed a .ics?

[–] Diplomjodler3@lemmy.world 181 points 1 day ago (5 children)

Senior advisor at 26. Right. Veritable boy genius, our mate, isn't he?

[–] possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 3 points 1 day ago

You should see the 19 and 20 year olds. 26 is older in comparison.

[–] whydudothatdrcrane@lemmy.ml 63 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Restoring Meritocracy since 1998 give or take.

[–] Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world 35 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Oh god.....1998 WAS that long ago......

I was thinking "1998? If he were 26 he would be born in........oh."

It just feels like 1998 was just a couple of years ago. Like 3 years ago. Then I remember how much stupid shit the world has gone through since 2000, and I think "OOOOOH! My brain is just blocking out entire decades!"

And the year 2020 simultaneously didn't happen at all, and was also 10 years long.

I'd just love if the world stopped being a massive dumpster fire that I psychologically block out, much the same as trauma victims do after they've experienced something horrific. Which is an accurate way to describe life since 2001.

[–] JustAnotherKay@lemmy.world 2 points 5 hours ago

But younger than you, trapped around 2016 mentally. Like, I'll still write it for the date every now and then type of trapped. It's been 9 years since then.

[–] klemptor@startrek.website 6 points 1 day ago

Oh jesus fucking christ I have hoodies older than this kid.

[–] kn0wmad1c@programming.dev 21 points 1 day ago

No, no, you're reading it wrong. He's actually advising seniors on how much to invest in Elon's companies

[–] ThePantser@lemmy.world 12 points 1 day ago

Patsy, Fall guy, rube

[–] anzo@programming.dev 2 points 1 day ago

Recruited in 2016... He was 18 years old, that'd be legal. What's the problem? ;p

[–] sp3tr4l@lemmy.zip 88 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Semi-Related:

Kathy Lueders used to be a high up at NASA.

She personally chose to make Starship HLS variant be the thing that delivers Artemis astronauts to the lunar surface.

https://www.nasa.gov/news-release/as-artemis-moves-forward-nasa-picks-spacex-to-land-next-americans-on-moon/

She also wildly misrepresented SpaceX's capabilities and rigged the 'request for proposal' process heavily in favor of SpaceX a few years later.

https://youtube.com/watch?v=hAEYtaB3R7Y

https://youtube.com/watch?v=NSZlZegPnl4

... And now she works for SpaceX.

https://www.space.com/spacex-hires-nasa-human-spaceflight-chief-kathy-lueders

It's basically a comedic parody of the kind of regulatory capture process, the incestuous relationship of people jumping between the private and government sides of a public/private partnership... and its all right in the open, actually real.

This kind of shit is the actual deep state, the actual unelected, quid pro quo, 'subject matter expert' asshats that cause waste fraud and abuse.

[–] JohnDClay@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 day ago

BO and dynetics proposals also weren't great. The path to reusability was really fishy.

[–] limelight79@lemm.ee 50 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] Flax_vert@feddit.uk 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] klemptor@startrek.website 9 points 1 day ago

A directory of DOGE workers and their email addresses.

[–] saltesc@lemmy.world 90 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (3 children)

Last organisation I worked for—not for profit, health—had around 17,500 employees. One of the cybersecurity managers had every employees details and devices on a Google Sheet private account that anyone could see if they had the share URL.

Home addresses, phone numbers, MAC addresses, IMEIs, columns of PII....

I started getting all sorts of unsolicited contact and 2-step authentication alerts "randomly" after two months there and 8 months later rEvil successfully ransomwared for $3.4M.

So when I found this sheet and no one took it seriously, I declared an internal data breach, submitted it to the fed—as you legally must in this country—and shit hit the fan for that department.

[–] toynbee@lemmy.world 1 points 4 hours ago

I recently had to submit some PII to my employer. The person requesting that information invited me to a video meeting so that the information wouldn't easily be accessible on record.

I've been working in this field for around fifteen years. This was the first time someone in charge of handling my information has even pretended to care about it.

[–] whydudothatdrcrane@lemmy.ml 54 points 1 day ago

I declared an internal data breach, submitted it to the fed—as you legally must in this country—and shit hit the fan for that department.

You are a legend

[–] sp3tr4l@lemmy.zip 26 points 1 day ago (1 children)

That is fucking amazing.

Please tell me this 'cybersecurity manager' was... fired, or drawn and quartered, or something.

[–] jaybone@lemmy.world 12 points 1 day ago

Probably got a promotion.

[–] wise_pancake@lemmy.ca 52 points 1 day ago (2 children)

People need to stop pointing things like this out. Let them be confused as fuck about how and why people know everything they’re doing.

Like the kid who was using his public personal GitHub repo for official DOGE work.

[–] Captainvaqina@sh.itjust.works 16 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Yea for real. This is a honeypot, who just gives those away?

Also, imagine all the real penetration experts who have completely compromised these absolute morons.

[–] ripcord@lemmy.world 12 points 1 day ago (2 children)

But that's not what a honeypot is

[–] Captainvaqina@sh.itjust.works 14 points 1 day ago (1 children)

You're right of course, I had a little bit of trouble searching for the right word.

[–] ripcord@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

I'm only half-awake, but I can't think of what the right word would be either :)

You had a good point thought, you dont just give those away and let them know to fix it...!

[–] A_norny_mousse@feddit.org -4 points 1 day ago* (last edited 11 hours ago) (1 children)

The meaning of Honeypot you refer to is a metaphor. It's not wrong to use it in other ways.

[–] fmstrat@lemmy.nowsci.com 3 points 1 day ago

Yea, BI didn't want to get beat to the headline, so they want to press, but what a wasted opportunity.

[–] tonytins@pawb.social 41 points 1 day ago

The jokes just write themselves.

[–] ZeroCool@slrpnk.net 34 points 1 day ago (1 children)

"OPSEC lol what's that some kind of new meme-coin?" - DOGE

[–] whydudothatdrcrane@lemmy.ml 17 points 1 day ago

Is it like..an app?

[–] Gerudo@lemm.ee 15 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] civil_drive@sh.itjust.works 7 points 1 day ago (1 children)

But what about Hunter Biden’s penis!!!

[–] MelodiousFunk@slrpnk.net 5 points 1 day ago

I heard Arnold Palmer is jealous.

[–] skuzz@discuss.tchncs.de 11 points 1 day ago

See, in the context of Mango Mussolini, the title "senior advisor" doesn't have the usual weight or connotation. It just means they talk to people around old orange people.

[–] AlecSadler@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 day ago

They all bleed the same.

[–] njm1314@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago