AN UNPRECEDENTED LEAK of Department of Homeland Security records has exposed details of more than 41,000 employees or contractors who work for the department and its constituent agencies. The records include email addresses, phone numbers, and office addresses, but also references to internal systems and sensitive information on undercover and surveillance programs. In all, the leak provides a map of how DHS is organized and how it operates.
The records, which span DHS itself as well as seven component agencies, including Immigration and Customs Enforcement and US Customs and Border Protection, were last updated on August 19, 2026. The transparency nonprofit Distributed Denial of Secrets and cybersecurity researcher and journalist maia arson crimew previewed the data to WIRED, which they say they obtained from a group calling itself the Department of Peace.
It is an amazing portrait of a horrible horrible person.
The specific reason that I have it as my avatar relates to some unfunny moderators on one of the communities here. There was a rinehart story, and I was being cheeky by requesting a good portrait, so I could put a face to the name. Someone posted the portrait, and the moderators pulled it.
My mature response was to use the portrait as my avatar, and to ensure that I comment on that community every now and then, to make sure that the portrait gets seen all the fucking time.
I’m not even Australian.
Hah. I think that’s the only appropriate response given that Rinehart tried to strisand that portrait.
What was the purported reason for a mod removing it?