Sources tell WIRED that the ability of DOGE’s Marko Elez to alter code controlling trillions in federal spending was rescinded days after US Treasury and White House officials said it didn’t exist.
It’s the Robin Hood anarchist’s dream to have the ability to overwrite the debts of the masses. Instead, the Capitalist Billionaire Sheriff of Nottingham gave it to his sniveling deputy to do with it whatever he saw fit. Bets on if what he saw fit was an unethical cash grab, an evil boon to the wealthy ruling class, or just a junior dev without oversight or review deploying to production with the finances of the wealthiest nation in the world at stake? WHAT COULD GO WRONG!?
I’d imagine services like these have backups with fairly high levels of resiliency. Just having write access isn’t sufficient. You’d probably have to physically go to the off site backup premises.
Even then, you might need a court order to seize equipment.
Any deletion or overwriting of the records is likely temporary, and reliant on the continued coup attempt.
Even then, you might need a court order to seize equipment.
You have a lot more trust in the rule of law these days than I do. They would just do it, no questions asked and then not even defend the action when the courts put a stop to it after the fact. Meanwhile the damage is done and they have moved on to fucking with some other system they aren’t even close to legally allowed to.
It’s the Robin Hood anarchist’s dream to have the ability to overwrite the debts of the masses. Instead, the Capitalist Billionaire Sheriff of Nottingham gave it to his sniveling deputy to do with it whatever he saw fit. Bets on if what he saw fit was an unethical cash grab, an evil boon to the wealthy ruling class, or just a junior dev without oversight or review deploying to production with the finances of the wealthiest nation in the world at stake? WHAT COULD GO WRONG!?
I’d imagine services like these have backups with fairly high levels of resiliency. Just having write access isn’t sufficient. You’d probably have to physically go to the off site backup premises.
Even then, you might need a court order to seize equipment.
Any deletion or overwriting of the records is likely temporary, and reliant on the continued coup attempt.
You have a lot more trust in the rule of law these days than I do. They would just do it, no questions asked and then not even defend the action when the courts put a stop to it after the fact. Meanwhile the damage is done and they have moved on to fucking with some other system they aren’t even close to legally allowed to.