[spacemanspiff01]

So to me this seems like an issue, set aside the constitutional/legal issues.

It sounds like, from the reporting, one person is modifying a large complex system that handles trillions of dollars and pushing directly to production.

Also he is not familiar with the system, having first encountered it a week ago.

Also the people who do normally have access to this system do not know what he is exactly doing, because normally, it is illegal for them to even access the system in the same way.

[giorgioz]

It seems read-only access has been given to audit expenses. So there is no modification. In fact it's the read-only access that will allow to become familiar with the system and make informed decisions.

[mgillett54]

FTA

> Wired beat me to the punch of reporting that a top DOGE employee, 25 year old former SpaceX employee Marko Elez, has not only read but write access to BFS servers.

[giorgioz]

Clearly if someone grant them write privilegies it means someone else had admin privilegies as well to that system. How many people have normally access to it? Why is it particularly weird that someone working in the government have access to a system about payments? It seems to me that generic fear is being mentioned rather than very tangible and clear dangers. It makes me feel like the people wanting to create panic have a hidden agenda and they just want to avoid someone from the opposition to audit the budgets. How can DOGE find out if there are expenses that should be cut if it doesn't even have access to what is actually being paid? I think everyone is generically afraid that their department is gonna get the cut and just doesn't want the audit to happen.