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.
  • FourWaveforms@lemm.eeEnglish
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    2 months ago

    Reminds me of that thing Lex Luthor did where he sponged off rounding errors in financial transactions

    • ripcord@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      2 months ago

      You’re thinking of discount Gene Hackman from Superman III: 2 bad 2 crazy

      • kryptonite@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        2 months ago

        Right movie, wrong character. Gus Gorman, played by Richard Pryor, skimmed the money from discount Gene Hackman (Ross Webster, played by Robert Vaughn).