--- title: "Elon Musk’s DOGE.gov Was Made So Sloppily That Anyone Can Vandalize It" description: "Elon Musk's DOGE.gov website is so poorly designed that it lets anybody make changes to an unsecured database that it's pulling from." date: "2025-02-14" modified: "2025-02-14" authors: - name: "Victor Tangermann" job_title: "Senior Editor" link: "https://futurism.com/authors/victor" url: "https://futurism.com/elon-musk-doge-vandalism" categories: - "Elon Musk" - "Future Society" - "The Industrialists" tags: - "doge" - "elon musk" --- # Elon Musk’s DOGE.gov Was Made So Sloppily That Anyone Can Vandalize It ![Elon Musk's DOGE.gov website is so poorly designed that it lets anybody make changes to an unsecured database that it's pulling from.]() *\Image: Chip Somodevilla / Pool / AFP via Getty / Futurism\* Multi-hyphenate tech billionaire and White House advisor Elon Musk's so-called Department of Government Efficiency has already garnered a reputation for employing [underqualified high school grads]()and [other twenty-something dimwits](), not to mention [installing unsecured email servers](). And the entity's official website, DOGE.gov, doesn't instill much confidence either. As [*404 Media* discovered](), the website is so sloppily made that it lets anybody make changes to an unsecured database that it's pulling from, resulting in a wave of vandalism. Unknown hackers have already had plenty of fun with the glaring oversight, [publishing a post]() that reads "this is a joke of a .gov site" and "THESE 'EXPERTS' LEFT THEIR DATABASE OPEN." It's a pathetic attempt to scrape together an online presence for a department that has already [crawled through highly sensitive data]() belonging to a considerable and still growing number of US government departments. The poorly constructed website highlights Musk's well-established move-fast-and-break-things approach to running his businesses — except, this time around, the entire US government is at stake, not just some microblogging platform he [lost buckets of money on](). The news comes after Musk [claimed]() that a DOGE website for tracking "government waste" was brimming with his accomplishments during a [bizarre press conference]() on Wednesday, even though the hastily put-together website, waste.gov, was literally just an empty boilerplate at the time. Afterward, DOGE.gov finally [replaced its placeholder](). But as *404* reports, it was pulling from a Cloudflare Pages site hosting the code that kept it running. A source told the publication that it was able to "push updates to a database of government employment information." "Feels like it was completely slapped together," the source told *404* . "Tons of errors and details leaked in the page source code." After the vulnerability came to light, DOGE.gov was temporarily put behind a paywall. At the time of writing, DOGE.gov is again pulling a stream of tweets from DOGE's X-formerly-Twitter account on its homepage. The website also hosts a so-called "unconstitutionality index," which, according to DOGE, is the "number of agency rules created by unelected bureaucrats for each law passed by Congress in 2024." A "Savings" tab still bears a placeholder message, promising "receipts coming soon, no later than Valentine's day." ![]() In short, Musk's DOGE has done little, if anything, to instill any degree of confidence given its IT track record so far. The so-called department's carelessness has already triggered legal action. A motion filed with the DC District Court by National Security Counselors [accused DOGE of illegally connecting a server]() to a government network for harvesting information, including federal employee names. DOGE has also started gutting the General Services Administration's (GSA) Technology Transformation Services, as [*Wired* reported earlier this week](), letting go of upwards of 70 employees. The publication also [revealed]() that DOGE is [training an AI chatbot]() for the GSA, which manages office buildings and IT infrastructure across the federal government. But considering Musk and his cronies can't even put together a coherent website, the future of such a chatbot feels pretty hazy. **More on DOGE:** *[Fury Erupts at State Department Plan to Buy $400 Million Worth of Elon Musk's "Armored Teslas"]()* ## Author I've been at Futurism since 2017, where my role has evolved to encompass design, writing, and increasingly editing. I've always been fascinated by space exploration and advanced transportation, which I've leaned into by interviewing luminaries in those fields while closely following the dimensions of policy and regulation that allow next-generation projects to succeed -- or, sometimes, to fail. I'm also keenly interested in the effects of generative AI on society, policies, and democratic institutions, as well as clean energy, physics and biology, and the vagaries of tech leadership. My work for Futurism has been cited by publications including Ars Technica, Gizmodo, PC Magazine, Jalopnik, Fox News, and the New York Post. I spent my childhood living in locations including Manila, the Philippines, and Geneva, Switzerland, attended McGill University, and now live in Toronto, Canada. Before Futurism I worked at AskMen and a small photography studio. In my free time, I'm an avid gardener, foodie, and craft beer lover, as well as a maker of artisanal hot pepper sauces. I have a magnificent dog named Freida. ### Author social links [Bluesky]()