Another day, another Techdirt post about DOGE nonsense.
This time, it's about how, even though there's a court order now limiting DOGE access to American's private information held by the Treasury Department, there's no reason to believe there's anything limiting DOGE's access to the software code that pays America's bills.
https://www.techdirt.com/2025/02/06/a-dangerous-lack-of-clarity-does-doges-negotiated-read-only-access-mean-read-only-access-to-data-or-code/
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