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?
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.
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.
Elez did in fact have write access, allowing him to push unvetted and untested changes straight to the Treasury’s payments system — 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.
Us. It’s us who will have to deal with this.
This is like a reverse Mr Robot scenario.
Did anyone come up with a demeaning name to call these little fucks yet? I submit “Elon’s cucks”
Share yours.
I heard “Traitor Tots” the other day and liked it
