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SCOOP: The US Treasury claimed a DOGE's Marco Elez didn’t have ‘write access,’ when he actually did. Sources tell WIRED that his ability to alter code controlling trillions in federal spending was rescinded, days after officials said it didn't exist.

wrd.cmThe US Treasury Claimed DOGE Technologist Didn’t Have ‘Write Access’ When He Actually DidSources tell WIRED that the ability of DOGE's Marko Elez to alter code controlling trillions in federal spending was rescinded days after US Treasury and White House officials said it didn't exist.

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There is a court order with a carve out listing his access as 'read-only' and restricting other access. This also means that they lied to the court.

It’s my fervent hope that they watch the same movies. We all watched, the dirty dozen, the longest day, battle of the bulge, cross of iron, the big red one, etc… and know who the good guys are because it’s not that hard to figure out!

For a corrupt purpose, rapists will always lie, deceive and shoot from behind. The Trump administration is letting America be submerged by manic phases of bipolar and sociopathic money taps.

Not shocking. Everyone knew the Treasury was lying when they said they only had read access. My only hope is those midrange/mainframes were so alien that the punks didn't know what to do.

If they didn't know what to do, and they were altering the code, they may well have opened up a security hole. And just the fact that a kid with inside knowledge of, and possibly a copy of, a supposedly secure system is wandering around is a security hole.

I'd assume (hope,l there's no external to those systems (the mainframes themselves). I'd be more concerned about blowing up the code vs. security holes. Those languages aren't that forgiving to errors. Let's also hope original source is somewhere ti be restored.

If they lied about the read only, guaranteed they already handed to code over to someone to either break it further or sell it to our adversaries *cough* Russia. Either way, the fact none of these people are arrested for espionage or being a threat to national security blows my effing mind.

Maybe the reason he was voluntold to resign wasn't because he was an omega racist, which didn't make sense given that Musk is the final boss of living racists. My bet is he probably royally fucked something up and they wanted to hide that because it correctly makes them look like incompetent idiots

Looks like this is why: bsky.app/profile/jaso...

Jason Leopold@jasonleopold.bsky.social

🚨BIG SCOOP: Musk’s DOGE Teen Was Fired By Cybersecurity Firm for Leaking Company Secrets Edward Coristine posted online that he had retained access to the firm’s servers. Now he has access to sensitive government information. 🎁 www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Musk and his tech nerds do their hacking in the “dark”. They don’t want people to know what they are doing. No transparency. ‪ Always knew they had “full” access to infiltrate government systems.👇‬ bsky.app/profile/mile...

Lorenzo@milemarker0.bsky.social

Musk doesn’t want us to see what he and his hacker bros are doing. Musk likes to collect data on people. Musk may be installing backdoor access to systems for his ongoing access. Nobody believes that Musk is limited to “read only” access. Musk paid big money to do anything he wants to do.

I wish the media was capable of communicating to the average citizen who isn't in IT, software or tech what a stunning, incomprehensible breach of proper development and cybersecurity procedure this is...on arguably the most critical production system in the country.

I know!! I was horrified. What really has me worried is do they know what he did when he had access? Correct me if I am wrong, but aren't these old, old systems with multiple patches? Most likely in COBOL?

My employers and I have paid hundreds of thousands of dollars into SSA and Medicare/Medicaid. If these little white supremacist dorks stole it, along with everyone else's, before we ever collect, GenX is gonna spill blood in the streets.

At this point, you cannot trust anything from this administration including what they say in legal documents. No country should trust this government either for trade, security or anything else. Mercurial and mercenary.

Ive been in IT for 30 years. one thing hackers do when they gain access is to put in a backdoor so they have alternate ways to gain access. This could be bad fucking news

Woah, woah, woah, what?! They lied?? Whaaaaaaat?! They capital "L" lower case "i-e-d"??! Woah, wait.....they LIED?! wow, just wowie-wow-wow. I am surprised. 🤯 Super duper surprised. Life changedly astonished. Supreme Pizza on the roof bamboozled.

System comprised. But, #1. The people controlling the system don’t care. Eventually, their updates/mods will begin to create random errors., and then mysterious shutdowns. People won’t get paid and they’ll get really angry See #1. They’ll get court orders. See #1 (they have an army).

You can't manufacture false "evidence" against your enemies without "write access". Watch: suits and prosecutions are going to come for prominent groups and people that are on their enemies list in order to shut down Dem/liberal/progressive groups and activism and use intimidation to deter it.

1. Musk is gaining access to the entire system. 2. Lawsuits can be filed courts can tell Trump to stop, but have no ability to enforce the law. There’s no mechanism. 3. The admin will say “oh yes we stopped” but they haven’t. 4. John Robert’s handed Trump the Federal Gov. What now?

Thank you for the reminder. I am sure you are right. I am a little worried that Chinese machines only have one choice and is a lever not a ballot. However, the 2 billion they stole should keep them content for life; with no need to cheat for King Donald the Deluded!

I tried to type “years” and autocorrect wrote “tears” and now I’m pondering if these words are now interchangeable. “That was six tears ago.” “We’re living in Trump tears.” “By the end of this tear we’ll have no America left.” 😩

I suspected as much all along, though I doubt the average Trump supporter would care (or will believe this). For the rest of us -- we have very good reasons for our suspicions and fears: breach of public trust, privacy concerns, security, USAID, no congressional approval, no security clearance...

It's still uncertain if the court order stipulating read only applies to the data and the underlying Treasury payment system code. There's a possibility DOGE is still hacking the system code. bsky.app/profile/mmas...

Mike Masnick@masnick.com

From @cathygellis.bsky.social: some concerns about the wording of the order that DOGE only have "read only" access. There's a way to read it that means "read only" access to just THE DATA in the system, but NOT the code of the system. www.techdirt.com/2025/02/06/a...

Sure, now that he's given himself access on the backend, he can continue to work for Musk and this administration behind the scenes and they can claim they don't know anything about it. Marco Elez needs to be imprisoned.

One of Musk's Teen Team has already quit when his very racist X account was uncovered Marko Elez resigned immediately THIS IS WHY MUSK GOT SO UPSET AND THREATENED PEOPLE ONLINE WHEN THEIR NAMES WERE REVEALED THERE IS A LOT TO HIDE APPARENTLY

If they “quit” is it possible they are working off site with our data or hacking back in? I wouldn’t put it past them. Even if they pulled Office Space type code, how long until someone noticed money is missing? What about selling info out to foreign countries?

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.

Makes me wonder. Did he resign so quickly because they found out he was racist? Or did he resign because they knew he may be forced to testify under oath and he would tell the truth about writing code? Is he now suddenly going to become unavailable to testify?

On the record lying about ILLEGALLY/UNCONSTITUTIONALLY granting permission(to fed emp, taxpayer, fed funding info and threatening fed emps) to unauthorized individuals using unsecured drives belonging to a fake agency… Anyone who purposefully assisted in these data breaches are co-conspirators.

It’s not breaking news that liars lie. I don’t know why the media just reports what they say instead of calling out their hypocrisy - to their face.

Ya and that prick is in the Air Traffic Control Master System someone has to tie his hands. AND Musk absofuckinglutely must be STOPPED now. Gridlock this Martian. He believes he is from Outer Space.