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According to sources, DOGE operatives said they specifically sought levels of permissions that would give them the ability to create, pause, and delete email accounts. Granting the request would require them each to be given an essentially God-mode level of access to the entire system architecture.

wired.comTop Officials Placed on Leave After Denying DOGE Access to Federal Payroll SystemsDOGE demanded full access to a US Department of the Interior system that handles even the Supreme Court's paychecks. When top staff asked questions, they were put on leave.
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“These people,” says one source at DOI who worries that DOGE affiliates could inadvertently destroy parts of the nearly 30-year-old FPPS, stop paychecks, or allow for a breach of the entire system, “have no idea what they’re doing.”

wired.comTop Officials Placed on Leave After Denying DOGE Access to Federal Payroll SystemsDOGE demanded full access to a US Department of the Interior system that handles even the Supreme Court's paychecks. When top staff asked questions, they were put on leave.

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Joshua Chilson
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Revoke their ldap access, enable password generation daily for them just for fun, and mandate 100 character passphrases. If using a mainframe, just disable super user USS access and / or remove the OMVS segment. Enable tls 1.2 minimum and force certificate checks. It's all in the name of security.

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And if you want more general context on WTH is going on, WIRED spoke with more than 150 current and former federal employees, experts, and Musk supporters across more than 20 agencies to expose the inner workings of DOGE. Inside Elon Musk's 'digital coup':

wired.comInside Elon Musk’s ‘Digital Coup’Musk’s loyalists at DOGE have infiltrated dozens of federal agencies, pushed out tens of thousands of workers, and siphoned millions of people’s most sensitive data. The next step: Unleash the AI.