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.
‘member when stuff like this was treason?
When America had any sense of shame or self preservation?
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.
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.
I’ve seen various discussions that sort all this out — he only had read access to the data, not write access.
Separately, he had write access to the underlying software stack and committed changes to live production systems, bypassing revision control and hub and spoke test environments.
All of this ended when someone surfaced tweets of his which identified him as a white supremacist — when that happened, he quit and left the facility.
I have read that he had administrative filesystem access to systems. god powers on the US governments financial system. INSANE.
Which systems though? Applications like this run on clusters and have multiple tiers. It’s not just a Windows pc.
There’s no way this person quit because their white supremacist tweets were uncovered. No moral hang-ups committing a coup but racism is where he gets shy???
Murica is dying with a whimper
something something, the apathy stage of a nation.
as the saying goes “uneducated, starving peasants make very poor revolutionists” and we have plenty of uneducated and plenty of starving.
There’s another saying, “Give them bread and circuses, and they will never revolt.” These statements are in direct conflict with each other.
