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Because DOGE sent those DOJ attorneys into the 3pm hearing with a fistful of lies about read-only access, which the attorneys had to walk back later.

Wow! No wonder he defunded USAID so quickly.

I'll bet they all have a shitload of thumb drives. Punks.

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sounds like a hostage situation waiting to happen....

If it fails, they can use DOGEcoin.

Chinese, Russian and Canadian hackers are literally watching this kid code, waiting for him to make a mistake so blatant that nobody could be tracked for stealing the US's finances. There's a young girl from Chechnya as well.

We need some tech vigilantes on the left to hack into X, Tesla, etc and find out what they are up to

Lawd just give me 10 minutes alone in a room with this man. Just 10 minutes. That’s all I need.

JFC

& nobody who knows shit to oversee, control any of this/his shit!😒🙄😒🤪🤡👻🤖

Feels crazy when I say it out loud, but it's feasible that he believes he can do this. And given how much of his tech that countries have paid him for, I realize now how dangerous that is to give that much control to one person. And Trump is happy to go along with all of it. Including taking Canada

What can go wrong? Lots..

EVERYTHING could go wrong

This is insane!

So they lied when they said they had “read only access”.

I'm rapidly coming around to thinking that no matter how evil and damaging Trump and his loyalists are, the exponentially bigger threat is Musk - he is grabbing personal control over the actual levers of power - The Money - and will very quickly be in a position to get rid of Trump at will

I'm not sure they care if everything breaks or is incredibly vulnerable - speed seems to be the only priority. It's like a digital ram-raid, they don't care about thoroughly stealing or leaving it open when they're done - get in, steal or damage what you can, and get out before anyone can react

I'd be more worried about the JCL though old COBOL when you were restricted to 4 character variable name was joyous

Hopefully Visual Basic?

This tiktok generation only knows about IJBOL!

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0% chance they’re making effective changes.

How long before they propose an entire rewrite in Go or Python, out of early 20s creatine fueled hubris. "Bruh, we might have to do an all nighter two, but it shouldn't be too bad"

The mainframe assembly was ported to cobol years ago so could be more platform independent. They had to create a new special cobol that understood different cobol dialects from different mainframe systems. Go back to day 1 of the series for full detail. Nathan is a government finance and economist.

lmao

they're 10x fortran devlopers

One thought: does this system handle accounts receivables or just payables, unlike, say studentaid.gov? R/w access into the student loan database to alter records that ppl rely on, but also just undermining security on $1.64T in REVENUE gets you blacklisted forever.

Jesus. Thanks for the panic read in bed.

So, how are backups done at these levels? I am very much not a technical computer person, but I’m imagining there is a history of system backups protected somewhere, which could at least allow some things to be rolled back to pre-tampering versions?

North Korean hackers just looking at the events unfolding

I have read that traditionally, the treasury just sends the money to the Treasury and each agency disperses funds. But with admin access all that noise goes out the window.

I'm suddenly recalling 'Office Space' and how they messed up that "fractions of pennies" virus.

more importantly it's a testiment to former government IT that it hasn't brought down prod yet

That's definitely him? Interesting list of follows.

Queue the requisite meme

Having worked with dipshit 25 year old techbros, there is a non zero chance he has a github of his name with something dumb like his personal blog that may happen to include his resume with his phone number and rutgers email. But pure speculation, who truly knows.

The context:

This should scare the tax payers. Too bad many are asleep at the wheel still

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Here's a link for those young chaps: www.google.com/search?clien...

They are getting plugged into our transportation technology too per Duffy. I'm telling you, they think the majority of government jobs can be replaced with AI.

It’s an attack from within by a foreign adversary (musky balls 😡)

The one positive about this is it's going to cost A LOT of money to repair the damage they're doing. We'll have to impose WWII level income taxes and novel new wealth taxes to fund the rebuilding. Afterwards, let's keep the taxes to fund healthcare, education, etc and actually make America great.

Lol literally manifesting the test in production meme. We dont do that in macrodata refinement

Jesus Christ. So fucked.

In case anyone wants to sue them.

Does this entity have a YT account, podcast or utilize the video elements of bluesky? I cannot sit around at work reading multiple articles all day, but I can listen to podcasts or videos that share the same info.

At this point theres a pretty good chance that they fuck up something important entirely by accident

you do wonderful work and analysis but you should be fundraising for @tpm.bsky.social this time

It's good work worth doing!

Is there any indication of what technology stack these systems use? Are we talking decades old systems running lots of COBOL or something slightly more modern?

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I can't believe how fucking stupid these ppl are

i want to know what these jokers are specifically doing. code to do what? specifically? i want to see this shit answered in a congressional hearing.

Connect the dots. Backdoors? This can't for a mere exploit, but are likely direct APIs to serve X as an everything app and national payment system. What else would X flunkies be hooking into the Treasury systems? There is an instrumentality at work; this is not a random act.

@chrismurphyct.bsky.social THIS

Just made this comment to a friend… As if a 25-year-old can “find” medicare fraud just because he has access. He has no expertise in medical procedure in billing and much less in the liability involved in accessing peoples private and personal data.

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I think she knows also of that.. her point being if it happens it will wake EVERYONE up then we could finally get him impeached AND removed. She doesn’t want it to happen but… it’s gonna take more Than articles and talking to Reach his cult and other cult adjacents who don’t believe us

Obviously you don't realize that Trump doesn't care. The problem is that this is not a normal situation, where people follow the rules, or even sneak around trying to avoid them. This is a situation in which musk and his henchmen are simply ignoring the rules, and this is being allowed.

3 years out of school. 1 week to get familiar with a massive system. Pushing changes directly into prod, days before a system upgrade. If this were any other customer-facing system this would be catastrophic. Dont have the word for what this means for the US.

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Ahh, the Bill O'Reilly method of programming. Do it live.

I'm sure these people are easily found in DC restaurants and bars and hotels to, you know...CHAT with them? Is there a DC version of black bloc?

Oh good lord. We are fucked unless somebody stops this!

A Musk Employee, NOT a US Government employee, ergo, a private citizen. DOJ should treat him, and the others, as such

Minus the testing part