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Arthur Besse@lemmy.ml to United States | News & Politics@lemmy.ml · 3 months ago

A 25-Year-Old Is Writing Backdoors Into The Treasury’s $6 Trillion Payment System. What Could Possibly Go Wrong?

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A 25-Year-Old Is Writing Backdoors Into The Treasury’s $6 Trillion Payment System. What Could Possibly Go Wrong?

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Arthur Besse@lemmy.ml to United States | News & Politics@lemmy.ml · 3 months ago
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Just months after we learned Chinese hackers had compromised US telecom systems through government-mandated backdoors, an inexperienced developer from Musk’s DOGE unit is pushing untested cod…
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    So normally the fractions of a million just get rounded off…

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    Yeah but I bet he’s a 10x ninja

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      100x ninja rockstar

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        as an experienced 100x ninja rockstar myself, those are exactly the kind of people you don’t want pushing patches to systems like this - they know just enough to be dangerous. Unless, of course, you want to move fast and break the, uhh, US Treasury… in which case, critical support

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      Rockstar code shinobi

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    juche-rose has an opportunity to do something very funny

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    deleted by creator

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    Testing new code in production…

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    Break out the whiskey. We’re done. This is as stupid as walking into bear country in late fall with raw meat strapped to your limbs. Could it end okay? Sure. But it’s the dumbest possible thing you could do in that time and place.

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