Post #38081 by bighairymike on the US Policy board

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What are the possibilities for extreme fraud (greater than any fraud we’ve ever seen before! Sir! You are a genius!) when an unelected tech billionaire and untold numbers of his incel keyboard warriors have hacked access to the US Treasury Payment System? - Bill

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Hack is a scary word isn't it. AFAIK, access was granted through normal request procedures, no one on from DOGE secretly hacked in. But it does happen,

https://www.forbes.com/sites/daveywinder/2025/01/0...

FBI Investigates As U.S. Treasury Attack Confirmed

Good info at the link, such as the role of "BeyondTrust" a third party security provider used by the Treasury Dept.

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Really! What concept of honesty and system of accountability are you defending? - Bill

My concept is most people are honest but there needs to be serious consequences for serious criminal behavior.

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Or is it simply your position that anyone should be able to hack the system? - Bill

Of course not.

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