Will that actually stop him at this point?
It’s too late in some ways. He’s already had access. The system has been compromised. Any number of bad actors, including Musk himself, could have asked used this situation to insert their own code into the system. We will never again be able to be certain that it is secure.
I imagine this looks a lot like what people in the cyber security sector do after a breach. Audit all the code, scan all the servers, monitor everything for several months. It’s a ton of work and very expensive, but there are people with lots of real-world experience unhacking systems.
But the data is siphoned off now. We can, nay, have to assume this.
yup. the real answer is to rotate EVERYTHING
Ahh yes. Lets just rotate every americans social security number and every organizations tax-payer id.
Easy,
SSN = SSN + 1Ah, I see someone has been to Hilbert’s Grand Hotel.
ROT13 all the things!
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you joke but that may be the only way
That data is largely worthless. Mostly because so much of it has leaked so many times over the past decade or two. That is why so many people have a special tax code or whatever.
The real “value” of having access to the treasury is not the data itself. It is the ability to change that data in a manner that directly defies congress, the budget, and everything else.
It pretty valuable even if you don’t change it. He can see what his competitors are being paid. He can correlate it with Twitter’s user data to tie political enemies to physical addresses and more.
Not that they won’t corrupt it. They will almost certainly alter it to their own ends as well.
Just rotate the bank account numbers, everyone gets someone else’s.
Worse: you don’t know which administrators have been compromised or were voluntarily complicit. It is unprecedented.
yup. we’re going to have to rotate the administrators, too
I rotated my monitor and I don’t feel any more secure and my neck hurts.
Yes, but not under this administration.
Yeah leaked data stays leaked. You can often find out what was leaked tho.
By running into it on ze dark veb?
Elon Musk is technically a job creator because so many people have to be hired just to fix his fuck ups.
I still cannot believe this total dumbass is considered by so many to be some kind of genius.
Besides all the obvious stuff, like trying to deliberately break America, and giving Nazi salutes (and then hearing all the gaslighting and bothsiderist bullshit from the “liberal media” on that) on top of that, I have to still see stuff about what a sooper-dooper genius this fucking gomer is. Because having money == genius.
I can’t read the article because paywall, but I assume access was blocked by some sort of court injunction. So what’ll really happen is that that stuff is how actual-patriot treasury employees will occupy their time until the ruling gets appealed to some MAGA judge and Musk waltzes right back in again.
Yes, you will be able to trust the system, after an independent team have ripped out the old system and built a new from the ground up.
Guy should be sitting in prison for breaking into our government systems. Having a mere say-so from the felon-in-chief is not enough.
Fuck, I hate this timeline.
Agreed. If I ever tried “accessing” government data like that, I’d be in jail. So should he
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In a just world his entire administration would be in prison and we would forcefully redistribute the wealth of all the nepo babies who trotted on stage at his inauguration.
Press secretary Karoline Leavitt also confirmed that Musk would extricate himself from any situations where he might have a conflict. “If Elon Musk comes across a conflict of interest with [his companies’] contracts and the funding that Doge is overseeing, then Elon will excuse himself from those contracts . . . he has abided by all applicable laws,” she said.
🤣😂🤣
Like when he started a lottery to bribe people into voting for trump. Or he forced back workers during COVID. Or when he bought twitter stock and spread rumors to lower the price … the list goes on
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Like when he promised Twitter an employees a ‘buy out’ package, then stiffed all of them for upwards of $500M dollars, then won the subsequent court battle, fucking over thousands of people.
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“Applicable” doing a lot of heavy lifting there
Last I saw they still have two “special employees” with “read only” access. So he still has “read only” access
But also? They already made code changes. And while I doubt they would be able to do anything meaningful, it is not hard to add another user account or an ssh tunnel to get through the “air gap”. And it would not be beyond musk et al to call that “hacking”.
They don’t care about legal, so why should that bother him?
They are in the middle of a coup, they don’t fear what currently is still the law.
Can’t read the article it’s paywalled
Fucking worst timeline
Why would it stop him? All he has to do is have Trump pardon him. They can do anything they want they have the guy that can hand out get out of jail free cards.
Just need to keep repeating, “Trump looks weak next to President Musk.” over and over, and everywhere. That could get under his craw.
Need media to keep asking “Who actually is the president” and accidentally saying “President Musk” over and over
yes, bar him after he already has the data. brilliant move.
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Somewhere out there is one command in a text file waiting to transfer the US economy out before the power goes off and the military looks for its football.
What does it say?
“Dale! NO POWER TOOLS!”
“Well I WAS DONE ANYWAY”
