Here's What Treasury and DOJ Mean By 'Read-Only' Access

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Originally published at: Here’s What Treasury and DOJ Mean By ‘Read-Only’ Access - TPM – Talking Points Memo

One of the continuing mysteries about the DOGE intrusion into the super sensitive payments computer system housed at Treasury Department is just what Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent as well as other administration officials and lawyers mean by ‘read-only’ access. For starters, it’s not clear that ‘read-only’ is actually a privilege level on the systems in…

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Sorry, I’m not buying it. If you have write access to the code that manipulates the data, then by definition you can manipulate the data, and that by definition is “write access” to the data.

They simply lied, it’s okay to say it… :roll_eyes:

ETA: almost forgot the cat:

cat - Linux Command

Concatenate and print (display) the content of files. Concatenate FILE(s), or standard input, to standard output.

Syntax

  •  cat [Options] [File]...*

Options

  • -A, --show-all equivalent to -vET*

  • -b, --number-nonblank number nonblank output lines*

  • -e equivalent to -vE*

  • -E, --show-ends display $ at end of each line*

  • -n, --number number all output lines*

  • -s, --squeeze-blank never more than one single blank line*

  • -t equivalent to -vT*

  • -T, --show-tabs display TAB characters as ^I*

  • -u (ignored)*

  • -v, --show-nonprinting use ^ and M- notation, except for LFD and TAB*

  •   --help               display this help and exit*

  •   --version            output version information and exit*

With no FILE, or when FILE is -, read standard input.
When given a single FILE, cat will pass the file unchanged to STDOUT (by default the display).

The cat utility does not buffer its output when writing to a pipe.

The cat command can be piped into grep to find specific words in the file:
cat file.txt | grep keyword output.txt

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