As someone who has worked with technology all my life, beginning with IBM courses in the 80's as a young business woman, I have a different - and much more frightening - perspective on the "Elon-gate" problem. This is beyond Watergate. This is High Crimes and Misdemeanors.
Aside from cutting payments authorized by Congress while having zero legal authority to do so, using staff who lack proper security clearance (Trump waving his hand is blessing is NOT valid now any more than his "thinking" Mar-A-Lago documents were now declassified made it so) and the privacy concerns as well as national security concerns all of these actions create...
Elon is thoroughly knowledgeable about data, and he hires people with exceptional skills in that arena.
That's a given.
WHAT is keeping him from randomly deleting data (just pieces), introducing random errors (pick some people, double the income on a tax return from last year and submit them for audit), changing a SSN number by one digit?
Things like this can easily be done through programming. Easy peasy.
Once a certain amount of errors exist, all of the data is suspect. That was the whole foundation of the fake "voter fraud/stolen election" move in 2020.
Musk's data people also have access to the information about where backups are stored by now. Nothing is safe.
Think about it - everything grinds to a halt.
The billionaires have their contingency plans in place.
America does not. Our Senate, House and legal representatives need to respond. This is the most criminal breach in history.
THIS is why I can't sleep at night. This is a coup. Trump and Elon and all their cronies are Traitors.
This is America's formerly secure money system. Our money.
It's my understanding the SS website is down today.
Republicans who voted for Trump need to pay attention.
@highlight Heather Cox Richardson
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