Payments Crisis of 2025: Doge Have "Read-Write" Access to Federal Payment System

Re:Payments Crisis of 2025: Doge Have "Read-Write" Access to... by franktankbank on Tuesday February 04, 2025 @12:17PM (#42935469)

I was referring to how you'd conduct an audit. I don't mean adding extra security, I mean taking backups so they can't be tampered during the audit.

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Re:Payments Crisis of 2025: Doge Have "Read-Write" Access to... by Naklin on Tuesday February 04, 2025 @12:29PM (#42935647)

That’s the same thing though.

You think the treasury doesn’t have a metric ton of procedures, and laws, on data management, integrity, access, backup and retention?

Breaking these protocols by giving unfettered write access to this data to ridiculously inexperienced and ignorant goons exponentially increases the risk of data tampering and corruption…

It makes any kind of audit LESS likely to be accurate.

But they’re very obviously not doing any kind of credible audit. As mentioned, that’s literally impossible and nonsensical to do this way.

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Re:Payments Crisis of 2025: Doge Have "Read-Write" Access to... by taylodl on Tuesday February 04, 2025 @02:45PM (#42937572)

Untrained "auditors" will do an "audit" and blast the "results" all over X, Fox News, Newsmax, and OAN. Seems legit.

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Re:Payments Crisis of 2025: Doge Have "Read-Write" Access to... by llamaimperative on Tuesday February 04, 2025 @07:41PM (#42941685)

"The vibes were so off with these rows of data bro" - BigBalls (actual screenname of one of these newly blessed "auditors")

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