This “headline” reads like the title of a porn story.
What are you doing step-code?
WAS HE CAUGHT WITH HIS HANDS IN THE COOKIE JAR?
Does it really matter whether he did?
Der Müskrat has been screaming “LEMME AT THEM COOKIES” for a month straight while hiring unpaid cookie monsters. Whether or how it already happened, it’s pretty clear the cookie jar is gonna get raided by someone.
Absolutely every prong of this attack on the government is for one goal: to declare mass emergencies by way of manufactured errors and chaos in order to seize ultimate power.
The article doesn’t say what he did, only that he had write abilities. Did he use them? How do we know? If yes, what were they specifically?
He could push directly to main/prod, so there weren’t explicitly any code reviews or necessarily oversight. Also, that code would be private. Only an insider with repository access could tell us that.
That said, I also want to know. I’m guessing we’ll hear about it soon enough.
Elez did in fact have write access, allowing him to push unvetted and untested changes straight to the Treasury’s payments system — a nightmare scenario that could introduce all sorts of cybersecurity vulnerabilities and leave doors open for adversary hacker groups
I feel for whoever has to deal with the fallout.
Us. It’s us who will have to deal with this.
This is like a reverse Mr Robot scenario.
Worse case scenario, he tried to add JS libraries to the ancient Fortran code.
he didn’t quit because of those racist tweets.
he quit because the bitch was embarrassed for trying to hack FORTRAN by dropping a JS lib into a repo like it was some kind of ABC made-for-tv spy movie.
He wouldn’t want to get his young tech bro hands dirty with Fortran. Surely there are cross-compilers that will translate your mission-critical payments Fortran to JS, maybe with an intermediate Rust and/or TS step. Fortran -> TS -> Rust -> JS, or similar, it would be quite a feat to behold. Never mind testing (that would be “wasteful” and “inefficient”), just push to prod and sit back and watch then chaos unfold, then blame it all on Biden and, I dunno, Bill Gates maybe.
npm install fortran
pnpm install fortran
Please, have some standards.
Rofl, and now you need a toolchain of biblical extent to compile it all. Webpack, npm, rollup, ts, etc.
