Elez, who has visited a Kansas City office housing BFS systems, has many administrator-level privileges. Typically, those admin privileges could give someone the power to log in to servers through secure shell access, navigate the entire file system, change user permissions, and delete or modify critical files
as a policy, it seems bad to have more people with rm -rf-level access to the us economy.
the president can launch literal nukes and get some in return; there are other highly visible officials with the power to nuke the economy. but the president can’t delegate the nuke launch decisions to others.
giving such access to more people, especially random, low-visibility people, seems Bad, regardless of how competent they seem to those who appointed them.
as a policy, it seems bad to have more people with rm -rf-level access to the us economy.
the president can launch literal nukes and get some in return; there are other highly visible officials with the power to nuke the economy. but the president can’t delegate the nuke launch decisions to others.
giving such access to more people, especially random, low-visibility people, seems Bad, regardless of how competent they seem to those who appointed them.