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.

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    13 hours ago

    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.

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      12 hours ago

      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.

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        11 hours ago

        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.

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      12 hours ago

      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.