Recording reveals new details on 19 year old "BIG BALLS" Coristine

In a recording of the call, reviewed by CNN, Marshal Webb, the CEO of Path Network, a company that offers services to protect businesses from cyberattacks, defended his decision.

He said he wanted to allow Coristine to continue with his internship, in part, because he didn’t want to make him “an enemy” or have him “running amok” with information he was suspected of taking. Webb allowed him to stay with the proviso that the young employee “not be exposed to anything that’s really sensitive.”

That was then.

Today, the 19-year-old, once known by the online moniker “Big Balls,” is part of Musk’s controversial effort to remake the federal government. He is a “senior advisor” with access to various departments, including Homeland Security, FEMA and the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency.

The details of Coristine’s role with the government are not clear. But his young age and relative lack of experience have raised concerns about his overall suitability for such potentially sensitive work.

Some government experts have questioned whether Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency – under which Coristine works – has appropriately followed all rules meant to protect US government data.

“The federal government has more data on American citizens than almost any other institution and so if we’re going to just remove the guardrails that protect that data, there’s no saying which actors may gain access to that,” said Nick Bednar, a professor at the University of Minnesota Law School who specializes in the executive branch. “That data is very valuable to know where people have invested their money, to know their social security numbers, their bank account information.”

[quote]Some government experts have questioned whether Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency – under which Coristine works – has appropriately followed all rules meant to protect US government data.

SOME??? APPROPRIATELY FOLLOWED THE RULES??????????????????? What fucking planet is CNN on?

I don't know why anyone is focussed on or wasting time talking about or analyzing this 19 year old. He's a lackey. He does what he is ordered to do.

The biggest threat the US is facing is Musk. Musk is datamining the American people and financial systems. That's what he's doing. That's what we should be relentlessly focussing on.

[quote] He's a lackey. He does what he is ordered to do.

If you think that this kid won't be poring over peoples' private data, and saving it on his computer, then you don't know 19 year olds.

He might be a lackey who does what he's told to do, but that won't stop him from having access to the personal and confidential records of ALL AMERICANS.

Just think what a 19 year old (and his friends) would do with that information.

We are SO fucked.

Jack Texieria, 22, ended up in jail. Will 'Big Balls' have the same fate ?

I think he's learned his lesson.

[quote]We are SO fucked.

Yes. But for now, we're MORE fucked by Musk. Coristine can fall out a window at a later date. Musk and his nasty friends won't.

People are not going to bring down Big Balls with old stories.

R2, i know, right? This is not real investigative journalism

Elon Musk’s young foot soldiers at the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) were caught on camera for the first time as they walked into a federal agency building—part of an apparent attempt to shut it down.

A Sunday night episode of investigative newsmagazine 60 Minutes showed three of Elon Musk’s DOGE staffers walking into the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau in Washington, D.C., on Feb. 7.

The brief clip, which was aired multiple times throughout the episode, showed three men wearing jackets and backpacks entering the CFPB premises along with what appeared to be a bodyguard.

“We heard from our colleagues that they’re camped out in the basement,” Hanna Hickman, a CFPB lawyer who was among those purged from the agency, told CBS’ Lesley Stahl. “They’ve got papers up on the windows to keep people from looking in. And they’ve been accessing data, certainly.”

Asked who she thought the three men were, Hickman said they were likely “software engineers, college dropouts.”

“That’s what we’ve heard,” she said. “I think if there was transparency people might feel more confident about what’s happening.”

Three hours after the group of young men walked in, their boss Elon Musk said “Rest in Peace” to the CFPB in a post on X.

President Donald Trump then tasked Office of Management and Budget chief Russell Vought with leading the CFPB in an acting capacity.

Vought quickly announced that he would stop funding the agency and emailed CFPB staff to cease working.

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Weird coincidence

Elmo is starting to resemble the late MJ in those unflattering closeups.

^ We can only hope Elmo has a similar fate

He’s so fucking weird looking.

I'll need to see his big balls before I pass judgment.

[quote] Elon Musk’s protege ‘Big Balls’ is grandson of executed KGB agent, report says

Edward Coristine, a protege of Elon Musk’s at the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), who has already gained notoriety for his checkered early tech career and for glorying in the nickname “Big Balls”, is the grandson of a KGB spy, according to a new report.

According to research by freelance journalist Jacob Silverman, it emerges that Coristine is also the grandson of KGB officer Valery Fedorovich Martynov, who was executed in the U.S.S.R. as a double agent in 1987.

Part of the organization’s technical espionage division, Martynov was sent to the U.S. in 1980 to work undercover at the Soviet Embassy in Washington, D.C., regarded as a highly desirable posting at the time.

As Silverman recounts the story, Martynov and his family enjoyed their taste of American prosperity before, in April 1982, he and another agent, Sergei Motorin, were flipped by the FBI and began feeding the bureau Soviet state secrets.

However, their Russian colleague Victor Cherkashin, a counterintelligence officer, had sources of his own within the Washington intelligence community whom he used to unmask KGB turncoats, traitors and moles.

Martynov’s double agent status was duly exposed – to Cherkashin’s personal chagrin and disappointment – forcing him to conceive a plan to have the former sent home to Moscow as an escort for a returning Soviet defector, Vitaly Yurchenko.

As soon as Marytnov stepped off the plane with Yurchenko, he was arrested, imprisoned and finally executed on May 28 1987.

Jesus, the CEO is a grown man and he's afraid was afraid of a 17 year old?

[QUOTE]He said he wanted to allow Coristine to continue with his internship, in part, because he didn’t want to make him “an enemy”

Let’s see how big his balls are.

r18,most likely the CEO had done or written some shady shit and was concerned that the teen might have already accessed some record of that.

Why is everyone in the Trump universe, somehow related to Russia?

Turns out Big Balls once abetted a cybercrime gang.

Beginning around 2022, while still in high school, Big Balls ran a company called DiamondCDN that provided network services. Among its users was a website run by a ring of cybercriminals operating under the name “EGodly.”

In 2023, EGodly boasted on its Telegram channel of hijacking phone numbers, breaking into unspecified law enforcement email accounts in Latin America and Eastern Europe, and cryptocurrency theft. Early that year, the group distributed the personal details of an FBI agent who they said was investigating them, circulating his phone number, photographs of his house, and other private details on Telegram.

Big Balls has reportedly resigned-anybody?

[quote] Big Balls

Verificata por favor

All that DOGE stuff feels like yesterday’s news. Remember we were going to cut government waste by not helping starving kids in Africa. Meanwhile Trump wastes millions (billions) on stupid parades and military actions that don’t even succeed.

Big Balls misses Elon or Little Balls.

I guess Musk got his custody in the divorce settlement.