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I imagine this looks a lot like what people in the cyber security sector do after a breach. Audit all the code, scan all the servers, monitor everything for several months. It's a ton of work and very expensive, but there are people with lots of real-world experience unhacking systems.
But the data is siphoned off now. We can, nay, have to assume this.
yup. the real answer is to rotate EVERYTHING
Worse: you don’t know which administrators have been compromised or were voluntarily complicit. It is unprecedented.
Ahh yes. Lets just rotate every americans social security number and every organizations tax-payer id.
Just rotate the bank account numbers, everyone gets someone else's.
Easy,
SSN = SSN + 1ROT13 all the things!
Ah, I see someone has been to Hilbert's Grand Hotel.
you joke but that may be the only way
That data is largely worthless. Mostly because so much of it has leaked so many times over the past decade or two. That is why so many people have a special tax code or whatever.
The real "value" of having access to the treasury is not the data itself. It is the ability to change that data in a manner that directly defies congress, the budget, and everything else.
It pretty valuable even if you don't change it. He can see what his competitors are being paid. He can correlate it with Twitter's user data to tie political enemies to physical addresses and more.
Not that they won't corrupt it. They will almost certainly alter it to their own ends as well.
The US could finally become a modern country with actual national ID!
If it comes to pass, it'll probably in the form of an arm tattoo...
nah. Only for people like me.
You know. Queer. Jewish descent. Leftist in ideology.
I wish these jokes didn't write themselves...
Not just you. Anyone that posted anything against them.
Yup. Yup yup yup yup yup yup yup yup yup yup yup yup yup yup yup yup yup. America is goinnnnnnnnnnnnnnn' great.
That's not the goal. The goal is to end it all.
I know that's not the goal. I know the goal is to fuckin' kill us caring folk
Yeah leaked data stays leaked. You can often find out what was leaked tho.
By running into it on ze dark veb?
Elon Musk is technically a job creator because so many people have to be hired just to fix his fuck ups.
I still cannot believe this total dumbass is considered by so many to be some kind of genius.
Besides all the obvious stuff, like trying to deliberately break America, and giving Nazi salutes (and then hearing all the gaslighting and bothsiderist bullshit from the "liberal media" on that) on top of that, I have to still see stuff about what a sooper-dooper genius this fucking gomer is. Because having money == genius.
I can't read the article because paywall, but I assume access was blocked by some sort of court injunction. So what'll really happen is that that stuff is how actual-patriot treasury employees will occupy their time until the ruling gets appealed to some MAGA judge and Musk waltzes right back in again.