DOGE Plans to Rebuild SSA Code Base in Months, Risking Benefits and System Collapse
www.wired.com
Social Security systems contain tens of millions of lines of code written in COBOL, an archaic programming language. Safely rewriting that code would take years—DOGE wants it done in months.
  • Eezyville@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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    1 month ago

    How many bugs? How will they secretly siphon money to their accounts? How much access will the Russians have? Who’s gonna get discriminated against?

    • AbidanYre@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      1 month ago

      It rounds to the nearest penny and the fractions of pennies that get cut off are used to buy Bitcoin for Big Balls.

      No one will even notice.