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According to the reporters, Elez apparently has the privileges to write code on the programs at the Bureau of Fiscal Service that control more than 20% of the U.S. economy, including government payments of veterans’ benefits, Social Security benefits, and veterans’ pay. The admin privileges he has typically permit a user “to log in to servers through secure shell access, navigate the entire file system, change user permissions, and delete or modify critical files. That could allow someone to bypass the security measures of, and potentially cause irreversible changes to, the very systems they have access to.” - from H.C.R.
Wait, didn't Trump and Leavitt assure us that DOGE only has read access? The MSM better grill the hell out of them for this. "Rewriting code and deleting critical files" certainly isn't read-only access.
