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[–] gressen@lemm.ee 71 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

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.

[–] meyotch@slrpnk.net 46 points 2 weeks ago

Us. It’s us who will have to deal with this.

This is like a reverse Mr Robot scenario.