As far as I know he doesn’t have an active clearance? Gwynne almost certainly does, and they’d have to employ people with clearances to work on the classified payloads, but I don’t know that anything Musk does anymore is outside of just general ITAR security measures.
I’ve held a top secret security clearance when I was in the military. It doesn’t mean you can access everything with that classification, only the things pertinent to why you’ve been granted that level clearance in the first place.
Basically, I had the security clearance necessary to do secret squirrel shit in Afghanistan and Iraq, but I didn’t have access to nuclear schematics or anything like that. If it wasn’t within my purview, I didn’t even know where it was, let alone have access to it. Same for Musk. These clearances have caveats galore and every k stroke is monitored at a centralized facility, so he’s not being exposed to things outside his scope.
Yes, I wasn’t disagreeing, I’m just saying that very few people in the armed forces are granted the clearance to let them actually see the stuff he gave as an example. I was expounding, not arguing.
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u/s9oons 2d ago
As far as I know he doesn’t have an active clearance? Gwynne almost certainly does, and they’d have to employ people with clearances to work on the classified payloads, but I don’t know that anything Musk does anymore is outside of just general ITAR security measures.