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A 25-Year-Old Is Writing Backdoors Into The Treasury’s $6 Trillion Payment System. What Could Possibly Go Wrong? (www.techdirt.com)
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[-] kibiz0r@midwest.social 27 points 2 months ago

So normally the fractions of a million just get rounded off…

[-] CapriciousDay@lemmy.ml 23 points 2 months ago

Yeah but I bet he's a 10x ninja

[-] TrashGoblin@hexbear.net 12 points 2 months ago

100x ninja rockstar

[-] crime@hexbear.net 7 points 2 months ago

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

[-] HK65@sopuli.xyz 8 points 2 months ago

Rockstar code shinobi

[-] nohaybanda@hexbear.net 19 points 2 months ago

juche-rose has an opportunity to do something very funny

[-] droplet6585@lemmy.ml 16 points 2 months ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)
[-] M68040@hexbear.net 12 points 2 months ago

Testing new code in production...

[-] Maggoty@lemmy.world 5 points 2 months ago

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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