The US Treasury claimed DOGE technologist didn’t have ‘write access’ when he actually did
The US Treasury claimed DOGE technologist didn’t have ‘write access’ when he actually did
Sources tell WIRED that the ability of DOGE’s Marko Elez to alter code controlling trillions in federal spending was rescinded days after US Treasury and White House officials said it didn’t exist.
Summary
Despite official denials, a technologist from Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) had "write access" to critical U.S. Treasury payment systems.
Marko Elez, a former SpaceX and X employee, was granted admin privileges to systems processing trillions in federal payments. Reports suggest he made “extensive changes” before resigning.
Concerns escalated after Treasury officials falsely claimed DOGE only had "read access."
The controversy follows the resignation of a senior Treasury official who opposed DOGE’s access, amid allegations of Musk associates interfering with USAID payments.
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Wtf is a "technologist"?
A technical person too inexperienced to have a job title
As a technologist, fuck you.
More accurately, a technologist is kinda like a tweener between being neither a technician, nor an engineer, but somehow both at the same time. The education requirements are different, and a lot of us start as technicians and eventually become engineers.
Are you a technologist, or a <something> technologist?
Technologist implies operating/maintaining something with enough understanding of how it works to mess with it on the fly. Without an adjective, that just means you're good at technology in general... That's not a job, that's an affinity
Like Musk