The US Treasury Claimed DOGE Technologist Didn’t Have ‘Write Access’ When He Actually Did
Sources tell WIRED that the ability of DOGE's Marko Elez to alter code controlling trillions in federal spending was rescinded days after US Treasury and White House officials said it didn't exist.
You're viewing a single thread.
Pretty sure even having unauthorized read-access is multiple felonies with lifetime sentences
The interesting thing is that a person is liable as a person when they are doing their jobs. Let’s say I’m a sysadmin and I make a mistake with HIPAA data, that’s on me then. I’ll go to jail, not my boss who told me to do it. I don’t see how these clowns are above that or aware of this.
Yeah, but what's a felony or two if you're at the highest levels of the government. In this group, thats a bonus qualification for the job.
Then make 47 write the pardon, let it be a scarlet letter to never let this person work in tech again. Congrats 24 year old inter, your career is over when this administration is.
I don't think anyone in silicon valley would hesitate to hire him, unfortunately. Unless we have a plan to also imprison Musk, Thiel, Bezos and Zuckerberg and dismantle their corporations, he'll be fine.
Sure, scarlet letter. It'll be a goddamn reference letter. "Willing to work for your corp under immense pressure and never questions illegal practices".
by the time this is over all those cronies will be so rich they won't have to work for several lifetimes
I can almost guarantee muskrat incentivized them to do his bidding with outrageous amounts of money. They probably don't have to worry about working after this. :/
Then lets hope their paychecks in Dogecoin are worth retiring on. (Apologies internet, im really just being extra cynical today)
It's fine, that's what pardons are for.
It's the Robin Hood anarchist's dream to have the ability to overwrite the debts of the masses. Instead, the Capitalist Billionaire Sheriff of Nottingham gave it to his sniveling deputy to do with it whatever he saw fit. Bets on if what he saw fit was an unethical cash grab, an evil boon to the wealthy ruling class, or just a junior dev without oversight or review deploying to production with the finances of the wealthiest nation in the world at stake? WHAT COULD GO WRONG!?
I'd imagine services like these have backups with fairly high levels of resiliency. Just having write access isn't sufficient. You'd probably have to physically go to the off site backup premises.
Even then, you might need a court order to seize equipment.
Any deletion or overwriting of the records is likely temporary, and reliant on the continued coup attempt.
Even then, you might need a court order to seize equipment.
You have a lot more trust in the rule of law these days than I do. They would just do it, no questions asked and then not even defend the action when the courts put a stop to it after the fact. Meanwhile the damage is done and they have moved on to fucking with some other system they aren't even close to legally allowed to.
