Absolutely every prong of this attack on the government is for one goal: to declare mass emergencies by way of manufactured errors and chaos in order to seize ultimate power.

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.

Worse case scenario, he tried to add JS libraries to the ancient Fortran code.