- cross-posted to:
- news@lemmy.world
- cross-posted to:
- news@lemmy.world
Three federal judges will consider on Friday whether Elon Musk’s government cost-cutting team known as DOGE will have access to Treasury Department payment systems and potentially sensitive data at U.S. health, consumer protection, labor and education agencies.
The Musk-led Department of Government Efficiency has swept through federal agencies since Republican Donald Trump became president last month and put the chief executive of carmaker Tesla in charge of rooting out wasteful spending as part of Trump’s dramatic overhaul of government.
In Manhattan, U.S. District Judge Jeannette Vargas will consider a request by Democratic state attorneys general to extend a temporary block on DOGE that was put in place on Saturday, which prevented Musk’s team from accessing Treasury systems responsible for trillions of dollars of payments.
Even if they haven’t by exposing various systems to the open internet (yes, they have done this with many critical systems), they’ve opened up for foreign hackers to exist as persistent threats even after DOGE has been kicked out.
https://cyberintel.substack.com/p/doge-exposes-once-secret-government
Further, I agree, they’re leaving themselves ways to get back in. They’ll never let go of this power now that they have it.
One of the people with access to these systems already has a history of installing backdoors at a former workplace.