Aren’t these the same guys who want to communicate exclusively thorough non FOIA means and also have full unfettered access to the entire system? Security audits tend to lose their punch when there’s no proof of anything and the logs have been purged as part of the stuff that’s not “read only”
Headline is, for all practical purposes, false. Let me explain.
“The Defendants will not provide access to any payment record or payment system of records maintained by or within the Bureau of the Fiscal Service,” the [Trump Administration] proposed order says.
My first thought was “They’re lying.” But then:
The order would allow exceptions for two special government employees at the Treasury — Tom Krause and Marko Elez — saying they are permitted access “as needed” to perform their duties, “provided that such access to payment records will be ‘read only.’”
So … they actually will still have access. The Independent reports:
Elez has reportedly been given administrator-level privileges that theoretically allow someone to change user permissions, delete and modify critical files that contain highly sensitive and confidential information.
Full and unfettered access, because read only my ass.
The proposed order also carves out exceptions for:
- Any person who is an employee (but not a Special Government Employee) of the Department of the Treasury and who has a need for the record or system of records in the performance of their duties;
Okay, sure, actual Treasury employees need access to data. Still, I wonder if they’ve also changed the “performance of their duties” part such that they’re basically delivering whatever the disallowed people would have.
- Any person who is entitled to access the relevant record or system of records under the Internal Revenue Code.
I wonder who they have at IRS.
I suspect that the damage (for the most part) has already been done.
more than likely. the backdoors installed, all the data copied.
Yup…one the back doors are installed they can fire musk for publicity. It doesn’t matter
Even if they don’t do things to disrupt, they could use all the data they pirated in the same bullshit way they did the “Twitter Files” (and fuck Matt Taibbi for that - leftist, my ass) to a credulous bunch of right-wing dumbasses again as an excuse for why they carried out their hacking activities/biggest data breach on America and Americans.
World’s most powerful military, biggest most far reaching and all intrusive global security organization, all seeing, all knowing, all capable … and all it took to undo it all was an unelected billionaire and six unqualified, unsecured, inexperienced young men with computers.
the truth at the center of every political ideology is that every human organization is a coagulation of trust. the politics we engage in are simply about getting the most power to the most trust worthy people. personally i’m of the view that this means power should be distributed to the populace, make of that what you will. but this has always been possible. the only thing preventing it was keeping untrustworthy people away from power. we failed this election to do that. it is what it is. now we have to start coalition building all over from the start, so we will.
so bear the following in mind: any decision that affects more than two people is political. relationships are political. everything you do and say is propaganda. so build strong relationships. support people because strong people support people. reduce the harm that this system does to the people you support because hurt people hurt people. building a better future starts at home.
America is dying with a whimper
I also like to tell people I have read only access to their files. Makes them feel more comfortable.
But to be fair it’s literally a part of my job and i say it so my tech illiterate coworkers don’t have a panic attack when i need to remote into their computer. I’m not trying to destroy the company I work for like these guys, I’m just saying it’s bullshit.
Yea, two days after they downloaded everything and made the changes they wanted to.
They shouldn’t have let him in to begin with.
Agreed he has our personal info that’s horrifying.
He already had that. This is the Treasury system, which controls basically all of the funding for the country. It’s way worse than privacy concerns.
“The fox has been guarding the hen house all week but don’t worry, we’ve asked him to stop now.”
They already got what they came for, not that we should Trust this administration to police itselfeven for a second lol
I bet anything that nothing at all happens to fElon even though what he has done and is doing is off-the-chart illegal and traitorous.
The guy should be up against the wall.
What no punishment for the unauthorized access! I’m sure they won’t do it again since there was no repercussions.
Agreed. Can you imagine if George Soros had done something like this under Biden?
Just imagine that for a second…really let that scenario sink in. Does anyone think that there would not be several attempts on his life and his accomplices’ lives within day one of such an egregious action on our country? The far right militia would be storming the place (actually probably many locations, including the Capitol again), without question.
All of the media, including not just the far right orgs, but the so-called “liberal media” would be losing their minds, calling for his death penalty, or life imprisonment, etc.
Meanwhile, the reaction from Democrats and the “liberal media” has been largely a collective yawn. Seriously, I think I heard more hot takes over stupid shit like “Gulf of America” than this.
It doesn’t matter. They’ve already had unfettered access, so there’s no way it can ever be considered secure again.
