DOGE Worker’s Code Supports NLRB Whistleblower

My response to “DOGE Worker’s Code Supports NLRB Whistleblower”

Marko “Forks” Elez is a great example of how churning out mid-tier Python code and being male can bring you to some crazy places in life. Side note, if you want to bore yourself to sleep tonight, take a walk down Elez’s recent GitHub repos . At least Big Balls is exciting–hosting VPS’s for cybercriminal gangs and being an alleged hacking forum kiddie^[1]. Elez in comparison just comes off like a sad, boring racist.

Roast aside, one important point to note related to the flaming GitHub issue : This repo was forked from “Ge0rg3” so a lot of the code was not authored by Elez, but rather “Ge0rg3”. Due to this, the only critique point pointed at Elez is #3. The remainder of the critique points are to be pointed at “Ge0rg3”.

Forking a repo is a lot like choosing the DNA for your next baby. You’re choosing an architecture, pattern, tooling–everything, and building from it. Elez, a eugenicist^[2], selectively breeding a repo with really objectively bad code (traits), is either A) ironic and/or B) demonstrates lack of software engineering experience and/or C) demonstrates a disconnect between his values and his actions.

That certainly begs the question: “Why do they have tenant-level access to such sensitive US government data?”

^{[1] https://krebsonsecurity.com/2025/02/teen-on-musks-doge-team-graduated-from-the-com/}

^{[2] https://www.wsj.com/tech/doge-staffer-resigns-over-racist-posts-d9f11a93}