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Well, it is a government agency tasked with audits. Why shouldn't it have root access?
Your employer is being audited. An unaccompanied stranger wearing a visitor pass comes up to your desk. He says "Hello I'm the password security auditor, tell me your password so I can make sure it's secure"

Will your company fail the audit if don't hand over the information?

Or will your company fail the audit if if you do hand it over?

You've clearly never been audited by the federal government.

In the case of the IRS, generally, you must hand over the data they request or you go to jail.

Whether or not it's behind a password protected internal system is irrelevant. Everything is potentially material to any conspiracy to commit tax fraud.

I see no reason why the Federal government itself, which works for us, should not be subject to reciprocal treatment.

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Usually, you do not hand out “root access” to auditors. Auditors are there to gather information (e.g to audit) and report.

In general, you don’t give out broadly permissive access to sensitive systems because people (yes even incredibly competent people) are prone to getting confused or mistyping and you really don’t want anyone deleting the entire database at the drop of a hat because they didn’t have enough coffee that morning and were logged into the wrong system.

Is it an actual government agency? From what I've (casually) read, it's an ad-hoc thing that isn't actually genuinely legitimate, from that standpoint?
Technically DOGE is part of the United States Digital Service (USDS)
>Is it an actual government agency?

Yes. With full support from the recently democratically elected president of the united states.

>> Is it an actual government agency?

Yes. In 2014, after the disastrous rollout of the Healthcare.gov site, President Obama created the "United States Digital Service" (USDS). Its stated mission was to modernize technology and improve efficiency across all US departments and agencies.

President Trump renamed the USDS to the "United States DOGE Service" (USDS) and created a temporary "Department of Government Efficiency" (DOGE) organization within the USDS that will operate until July 4, 2026.

Every US government agency is required to establish a DOGE team within that agency to work with the USDS to "improve the quality and efficiency of government-wide software, network infrastructure, and information technology (IT) systems".

It's not. But pseudo-intellects and idiots are still under Elon's spell.
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