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Re: by an_guy on Sunday February 09, 2025 @08:55PM (#42996143)
Are you saying, a potus appointed commission for auditing government system is worse than a chinese backdoor in treasury department, who's level of access was unknown?
Re: by ordinaryradical on Sunday February 09, 2025 @09:40PM (#42996368)
No one invited the Chinese through the front door.

If you can’t understand that difference, you’re missing something very critical.

One is serious because a foreign adversary is compromising us; the other is serious because we are apparently designing the compromise ourselves via the whims of a demagogue.

Re: by ttpphd on Sunday February 09, 2025 @09:04PM (#42996186)
"if the president does it, it's not illegal" ok Nixon.
Re: by sangnoir on Monday February 10, 2025 @02:49AM (#42997850)
Cosigned by the Supreme Court of The United States, in 2024.
Re: by johnnyanmac on Monday February 10, 2025 @12:31AM (#42997234)
Yes. Someone without clearance nor congress approval running around with a sledgehammer is a lot more an immediate issue than a long term saboteur. We can deal with both, but let's make priorities.
Re: by throw0101d on Monday February 10, 2025 @08:13PM (#43007713)
> Are you saying, a potus appointed commission for auditing government system […]

You don't need read-write access for auditing. You don't need root/admin-level privileges.

Re: by an_guy on Monday February 10, 2025 @09:30PM (#43008295)
Do they really have write access though?

So far the only evidence of that is a wired article [1] with anonymous sources, even those source were not 100% sure about it.

Since then wired has posted another article [2] claiming the access have been revoked after announcements from senior officials, which again is from anonymous sources.

I'm really skeptical of these anonymous sources tbh.

[1] https://www.wired.com/story/elon-musk-associate-bfs-federal-...

[2] https://www.wired.com/story/treasury-department-doge-marko-e...