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Elon Musk is a close friend of President Donald Trump.
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Will the team led by Elon Musk be planning to crash the US government computer system? Over the past few weeks there have been many reports that Musk and his peers have access to servers in departments from the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) and the US Treasury Department. It is not clear whether these complex, sensitive, aging computer systems are being updated or whether private data is being accessed, but there is a fear of serious harm being caused.
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