Re:Treasury agrees to block DOGE's access to personal taxpay...
by Amezarak on Thursday February 20, 2025 @06:38PM
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You don’t think anyone else has root?
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Re:Treasury agrees to block DOGE's access to personal taxpay...
by nick__m on Thursday February 20, 2025 @06:53PM
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Some system protect against that. The philosophy behind IBM RACF is :《 A key security principle is the separation of duties between different users so that no one person has sufficient access privilege to perpetrate damaging fraud.》
Re:Treasury agrees to block DOGE's access to personal taxpay...
by JadeNB on Thursday February 20, 2025 @07:32PM
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> The philosophy behind IBM RACF is :《 A key security principle is the separation of duties between different users so that no one person has sufficient access privilege to perpetrate damaging fraud.》
I am so primed to parse emoticons eagerly that I thought that the philosophy was :《
Re:Treasury agrees to block DOGE's access to personal taxpay...
by brendoelfrendo on Thursday February 20, 2025 @06:55PM
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I'm gonna go out on a limb and say no, not without first going through a change management process and going through a privileged session management system, except in the case of an emergency break-glass scenario where using those emergency creds throws all kinds of big DANGER alerts across the org if the access was unexpected. I can't speak to the Treasury and IRS specifically, but that's kinda standard across large orgs, especially ones that get audited regularly on their handling of sensitive data.