What if the system is corrupted to records get lost of Treasury securities ownership and debt service. All the National Debt data is in systems built over time.
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Presumably system state is backed up and the backup sandboxed before the young DOGE agents have a hand at COBOL. Presumably = hopefully.
Read only and copy privileged is less a worry than authority to alter code, where the code is not transparent and yet is mission critical, as with the government paying out money. If a full copy of data in a data base is fed to somebody's AI system and then data mining of that AI system is tried, data privacy is a concern, but underlying data integrity should be protected. If young hotshot guys mess around where the langage is one no longer taught in colleges, look out.
Presumably = hopefully the situation is under steady experience minds, as to keeping system integrity while DOGE looks into the inner sanctum.