The US Treasury Claimed DOGE Technologist Didn’t Have ‘Write Access’ When He Actually Did
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Sources tell WIRED that the ability of DOGE's Marko Elez to alter code controlling trillions in federal spending was rescinded days after US Treasury and White House officials said it didn't exist.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.

  • Em Adespoton
    28·
    9 hours ago

    I’ve seen various discussions that sort all this out — he only had read access to the data, not write access.

    Separately, he had write access to the underlying software stack and committed changes to live production systems, bypassing revision control and hub and spoke test environments.

    All of this ended when someone surfaced tweets of his which identified him as a white supremacist — when that happened, he quit and left the facility.

    • evan@midwest.socialEnglish
      8·
      6 hours ago

      There’s no way this person quit because their white supremacist tweets were uncovered. No moral hang-ups committing a coup but racism is where he gets shy???

    • qprimed@lemmy.mlEnglish
      26·
      8 hours ago

      I have read that he had administrative filesystem access to systems. god powers on the US governments financial system. INSANE.

      • atzanteol@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        2·
        5 hours ago

        Which systems though? Applications like this run on clusters and have multiple tiers. It’s not just a Windows pc.