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[–] [email protected] 1 points 26 minutes ago

The supreme leader gave him the authority, cope libs 🀑

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Did anyone come up with a demeaning name to call these little fucks yet? I submit "Elon's cucks"

Share yours.

[–] aesthelete 40 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

This "headline" reads like the title of a porn story.

[–] ralakus 10 points 2 days ago

What are you doing step-code?

[–] [email protected] 71 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Elez did in fact have write access, allowing him to push unvetted and untested changes straight to the Treasury's payments system β€” a nightmare scenario that could introduce all sorts of cybersecurity vulnerabilities and leave doors open for adversary hacker groups

I feel for whoever has to deal with the fallout.

[–] [email protected] 46 points 2 days ago

Us. It’s us who will have to deal with this.

This is like a reverse Mr Robot scenario.

[–] [email protected] 51 points 2 days ago

Absolutely every prong of this attack on the government is for one goal: to declare mass emergencies by way of manufactured errors and chaos in order to seize ultimate power.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 2 days ago (1 children)

The article doesn't say what he did, only that he had write abilities. Did he use them? How do we know? If yes, what were they specifically?

[–] draughtcyclist 22 points 2 days ago (1 children)

He could push directly to main/prod, so there weren't explicitly any code reviews or necessarily oversight. Also, that code would be private. Only an insider with repository access could tell us that.

That said, I also want to know. I'm guessing we'll hear about it soon enough.

[–] Maalus -1 points 2 days ago (2 children)

"could" doesn't mean "did"?

[–] draughtcyclist 7 points 2 days ago (1 children)

True. But there's zero reason to give permissions that reckless unless you plan on using them.

[–] LesserAbe 5 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Josh Marshall, the reporter from Talking Points Memo asserted that he did push changes.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 42 minutes ago

Does he provide sources or a way to confirm what he says? I'd like to find out exactly what is known and what is the status of that code base.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 2 days ago

WAS HE CAUGHT WITH HIS HANDS IN THE COOKIE JAR?

Does it really matter whether he did?

Der MΓΌskrat has been screaming β€œLEMME AT THEM COOKIES” for a month straight while hiring unpaid cookie monsters. Whether or how it already happened, it’s pretty clear the cookie jar is gonna get raided by someone.

[–] slazer2au 34 points 2 days ago (4 children)

Worse case scenario, he tried to add JS libraries to the ancient Fortran code.

[–] callcc 18 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Rofl, and now you need a toolchain of biblical extent to compile it all. Webpack, npm, rollup, ts, etc.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

And it takes 16G of memory and 512G of disk space to compile.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

He wouldn't want to get his young tech bro hands dirty with Fortran. Surely there are cross-compilers that will translate your mission-critical payments Fortran to JS, maybe with an intermediate Rust and/or TS step. Fortran -> TS -> Rust -> JS, or similar, it would be quite a feat to behold. Never mind testing (that would be "wasteful" and "inefficient"), just push to prod and sit back and watch then chaos unfold, then blame it all on Biden and, I dunno, Bill Gates maybe.

[–] slazer2au 1 points 1 day ago

He can't blame Russian hackers, so Chinese hackers it is.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 days ago (1 children)
[–] Lemminary 6 points 2 days ago

pnpm install fortran

Please, have some standards.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 days ago

dogeboyo's got naughty access! it's the porn of security clearances in the world.

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