Elon Musk’s team of coders are creating a “backdoor” into the U.S. Treasury system, according to legal and I.T. professionals. “Pushing live production code cooked up by some young coders over a week of [sleepless] nights in place of a legacy system that is fundamental to the operation of the US government is against every programming best practice,

As the richest man in the world takes control of key functions of the government, his team’s work is potentially breaking many laws. It’s going to take lawsuits to stop him—since Congress seems unwilling to act.