Summary
Despite official denials, a technologist from Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) had “write access” to critical U.S. Treasury payment systems.
Marko Elez, a former SpaceX and X employee, was granted admin privileges to systems processing trillions in federal payments. Reports suggest he made “extensive changes” before resigning.
Concerns escalated after Treasury officials falsely claimed DOGE only had “read access.”
The controversy follows the resignation of a senior Treasury official who opposed DOGE’s access, amid allegations of Musk associates interfering with USAID payments.
Wtf is a “technologist”?
As a technologist, fuck you.
More accurately, a technologist is kinda like a tweener between being neither a technician, nor an engineer, but somehow both at the same time. The education requirements are different, and a lot of us start as technicians and eventually become engineers.
Are you a technologist, or a <something> technologist?
Technologist implies operating/maintaining something with enough understanding of how it works to mess with it on the fly. Without an adjective, that just means you’re good at technology in general… That’s not a job, that’s an affinity
What would happen if every working class American decided to join the ultra rich and not pay taxes this year?
Most people already have and filling would only get them their refunds. Unless you mean 2025 taxes
You would need a unified effort to do that, and it wouldn’t work. Also even if the IRS chooses not to go after people, Musk would have some goons to do it and he would ‘authorize’ them to use lethal force if necessary. Given that his goons would be less qualified than most police (and that is a scary thought) there will be enough bad encounters to scare most people into submission.
Why does media keep legitimizing this treating it as anything other than an illegal act, simply because these fucking idiots used the word “department”.
Its not a real fucking department.
They’ve commandeered the USDS or US Digital Service. A department to improve Federal websites. They created DOGE under USDS.
‘member when stuff like this was treason?
When America had any sense of shame or self preservation?
every single system should now be considered compromised, both hardware and software. faith in any of these systems can never be restored unless everything is ripped out and replaced/audited - and, even then…
trillions of dollars and the ability to crush the US economy at will is one hell of a prize to not leave backdoored for an adversary.
Honestly, they should just imprison all the people who illegally accessed the databases. That’s what we do to hackers. Doesn’t matter if you were paid to do it or not, illegal is illegal.
But of course wait until Trump is out because he’d just pardon them.
Yes. Given the slow way these things work (at least for the criminals on the right) maybe they should start the case right about now. In the event we still have a democracy and that qlown donvict is gone…arrest them the first day of next Presidency.
Oh, and let them know this is pending the whole time…so “Big Balls” and whatever the fuck their names are can have something to look forward to.
Am I the only one who’s kind of giggling realizing that the personal accounts of all of these DOGE dipshits are almost certainly being actively aggressively targeted.
Talk about having a target on your back. I had put money on over 50% of their personal devices having Pegasus or similar.
