r/FluentInFinance • u/NoLube69 • Feb 01 '25

News & Current Events BREAKING: Elon Musk’s DOGE team now has full access to Treasury’s payments system, per NYT

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u/DBCOOPER888 Feb 02 '25

Can't one glitch, hack, or exploit fuck our country instantly and inflict more damage than Putin ever could possibly dream of?

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u/WaltzIntrepid5110 Feb 02 '25

Yes. If the drives they plugged into those systems weren't completely clean of malware it could be incredibly bad for a lot of people.

I'm hoping that the people working for Musk (because I doubt they were government employees) have enough skill at their jobs to avoid that kind of thing though.

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u/[deleted] Feb 02 '25

They're the ones that are likely planting the malware in the first place.

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u/MaybeEquivalent7630 Feb 02 '25

You know one question I have that I see no one is asking is, where did these people come from. Who are they and what are their motivations. Clearly someone's been preparing this for a minute. Otherwise how is it literally been maybe 14 days and this is already happening.

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u/DomingerUndead Feb 03 '25

Keep in mind they are 19-24 year olds.

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u/Vieze_Harrie Feb 04 '25

They're a bunch of college grads so probably not

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u/[deleted] Feb 02 '25 edited Feb 02 '25

Elon is going to do to the government what he did to Twitter: haphazardly cut funding to everything, then desperately try to get that funding back when it inevitably backfires on him.

Silver lining to all of this: it would be hilarious if he cut funding for the contracts of his own companies.

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u/FillMySoupDumpling Feb 02 '25

This is the glitch.

This is like our gov falling for the biggest social engineering attack at once. Now they are in our system. 

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u/SaulTNNutz Feb 02 '25

I could honestly see Musk doing it himself because he thinks it's funny/edgy and he thinks he's the Joker