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Re:Top Social Security Official Leaves After Musk Team Seeks... by silexia on Monday February 17, 2025 @11:02PM (#43085948)
Read only access would be required to find potential fraud. Everyone here has been saying the millions of database records of Social Security people potentially collecting benefits between the ages of 100-150 is just a COBOL programming deal... but what if it is not? We should check.
Re:Top Social Security Official Leaves After Musk Team Seeks... by 9283409232 on Monday February 17, 2025 @11:08PM (#43085975)
There is no reason to expect that he will have read-only access given that he and his team had write access to the Treasury data. Social security fraud also has to be less than .2% of spending. Is this really worth wasting time on? Doesn't sound like the Department of Government Efficiency is being very time efficient.
Re:Top Social Security Official Leaves After Musk Team Seeks... by vaxman on Monday February 17, 2025 @11:55PM (#43086194)
If they catch his team copying the data, he should literally be executed. Otherwise, audit on..
Re:Top Social Security Official Leaves After Musk Team Seeks... by nielsbot on Tuesday February 18, 2025 @01:25AM (#43086646)
i don’t want him even seeing the data, sorry. audit through the normal channels. or, failing that, go after the pentagon where the real fraud (and savings) are.
Re:Top Social Security Official Leaves After Musk Team Seeks... by 9283409232 on Tuesday February 18, 2025 @10:44AM (#43090822)
They already caught his team copying Treasury data onto a private server.
Re:Top Social Security Official Leaves After Musk Team Seeks... by lesuorac on Monday February 17, 2025 @11:09PM (#43085983)
Good point.

First we should check if you're an American because otherwise you shouldn't be able to help us check.

Please post your Social Security number, Name, Mother's Madien Name, and last 4 of each of your Credit Cards.

Re:Top Social Security Official Leaves After Musk Team Seeks... by nielsbot on Tuesday February 18, 2025 @01:23AM (#43086638)
pretty sure we already had auditors. this is something else.