Rude, Spam Email To All NOAA Employees Exposes Shoddy

Federal NOAA staffers, hard at work despite a failed 
Trump administration new email system that is prone
to hacking and spam. 

All 13,000 or so employees at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) have been spammed with dozens of rude emails and messages due to a dumb move by someone in the Trump administration. 

One email with the subject header "Resign" said in part, 'Aren't you tired of working for a complete cxxt?"

 Others had even more lewd messages. There was a fake invite to join Scientology, and another that read, "Important weather alert: The next four years have a 99% chance of shit showers."

The whole thing was really juvenile, obviously. The emails appear to be an effort to mock the Trump administration's rollout of a new system that allows all 2.3 million federal employees to be mailed from a single address. 

The emails and messages seem to prove that the system is very insecure and could be deployed by bad actors, hackers and those who want to invade the privacy of workers. There's also a lot of questions as to whether the system was properly vetted, or even vetted at all. 

It's unclear why NOAA in particular was targeted.  I'm sure other federal agencies will be getting this flood of spam, too, if they aren't already. 

There's not much so far that can be done about it, apparently. As Mediaite reports, NOAA Deputy Director of Communications Scott Mullen said in a memo to staff: "I'm sorry this happened to us.... I will report it."

Like reporting it would actually help when dealing with the Trump administration. But at least Mullen is trying. 

The ostensible goal of Trump and his wing man Elon Musk was to cut down on spending and waste in government. Way to make everybody work more efficiently by setting up a system that spams NOAA employees with nonsense when they should be spending their time on forecasting dangerous weather or other similar tasks. Not that they aren't already, but the spam has to be an annoying distraction. 

As Houston-based meteorologist Matt Lanza said on X, "The people working for NOAA and the NWS deserve so much better than this."

Another person commented: "You can laugh, but if their cyber security is problematic, that's a huge target for foreign threats. I'd be foaming at the mouth if I were Russia or China."

Everything is chaos when it comes to the Trump administration. Add this to the pile of mess ups we're sure to see in this administration.