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[–] [email protected] 117 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (2 children)

Holy shit lol

I'm more than a decade into my engineering career. Nobody pushes directly to prod on my team, not even me. Everyone gets reviewed and tested.

I read this and cackled in public. Because my god, however bad you think this is, it's way fucking worse. Idk what a reasonable reaction to this is but wow. Just wow. Fucking. Cooked.

Like member how everyone talked about graft in Russia resulting in funds meant for military maintenance being siphoned off the top instead of being used for what it was supposed to be used for? This is like that, except you don't even have to have any excuses or anything, the money just... Disappears.

Edit: Have you ever seen a check from the US Treasury bounce? These fuckers boutta be rubber.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 6 days ago

We told people to stop giving Brawndo to crops and now the economy computer failed. Brought to you by Carl's Jr.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 days ago (1 children)

what i think this really means is that the treasury was hacked a long time ago and marko is making changes that were already written beforehand….
otherwise this would be impossible.
they entered those systems like three days before significantly altering the code….

[–] [email protected] 15 points 6 days ago (3 children)

You can absolutely push changes to a system that you don't actually understand.

You might be right, but consider the alternative: "someone thinks that they're so much smarter than the people who originally designed, implemented, and maintained a system integral to the functioning of modern society that they dismiss out of hand the idea of caution when dealing with it in situ."

If someone of that description were in this situation, what do you suppose their behavior would be?

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[–] [email protected] 68 points 6 days ago (2 children)

Musk robs the treasury blind then Trump pardons him. Biggest heist ever.

[–] tankplanker 7 points 6 days ago

Fucker thinks hes Gus Gorman in Superman III and thinks salami slicing is his get rich quick scheme.

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[–] [email protected] 58 points 6 days ago (1 children)

I worked as a developer in electronic payments for 5 years and we had to go through a months long process to certify the code with the financial system. My bosses were paranoid of any changes I made (to a silly degree) and we had a silly amount of automated tests.

We were a small startup with an underpaid staff and I'm not sure if more than 1000 people used our software. What they're doing is completely reckless.

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[–] [email protected] 66 points 6 days ago (2 children)

He also works 18 hours a day and sleeps on a cot in his office. That’s how you know his work is always flawless.

[–] teft 46 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

And I'm sure early 20s adults that hang out with the muskrat are 100% drug free. Definitely not amphetamined or ketamined up or anything.

[–] whostosay 12 points 6 days ago (1 children)

I've seen a ton of studies that have proven that the quality of your home life is directly related to your own production which could profit myself and even more so the company I work for, and I have to say, what about next quarters numbers?

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[–] [email protected] 37 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Pushing code directly to Prod in a payments system handling trillions of $ is going to end in an almighty bang...

[–] Allonzee 10 points 6 days ago

In their quest for ever moar, the capitalists sowed the seeds of their own destruction...

[–] [email protected] 50 points 6 days ago (2 children)

Back door to US government on sale on the black market for the highest bid.

[–] [email protected] 53 points 6 days ago (4 children)

He will probably leak it on discord dedicated to some treasury game to win an argument against some 12 year old.

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[–] whostosay 9 points 6 days ago

Highest bid?

These stupid fucks couldn't even imagine what this data is worth if they would wait minimum one year.

[–] Allonzee 21 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (1 children)

Honestly this could be the best thing possible if anonymous takes advantage and just... Deletes all data on the US dollar....

Short term, people would suffer. Long term, our children might get a future they currently don't have thanks to the capitalists.

[–] jve 9 points 6 days ago (2 children)

Isn’t this the plot to Mr Robot?

[–] Allonzee 21 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (1 children)

It's a common hacker dream since looooong before that. Bringing the score to zero.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 6 days ago (1 children)
[–] Allonzee 4 points 6 days ago

Someone forgot rules one and two...

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[–] [email protected] 18 points 6 days ago (1 children)

If they completely break the payments system, does that mean government employees stop getting paid?

Like no more federal government? No more ICE? No more military? No more FBI?

[–] [email protected] 15 points 6 days ago

It means all of a sudden you have a lot of well armed and well connected people out of a job, while probably the US dollar becomes worthless as a currency. If you live in the US and havent though about owning a weapon, now would be the time to quickly get one. You never know when the currency becomes worthless and police will demand all your food reserves at gunpoint.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Wasn't this the plot to one of the Die Hards. Except they just went in and did it.

[–] TomAwsm 13 points 6 days ago (2 children)

Wonder if the muskrat would be triggered by being called Hans Gruber. Or some variation...

How about... Hans Groomer.

Anybody else got one?

[–] Delphia 3 points 5 days ago

Handsy Grabber.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 days ago

I like it. Then the celebrity couple name mashup for our glorious leaders can be Small Hands Groomer.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 6 days ago

that will prove very lucrative to the industrious hacker in the third world.

[–] Maggoty 13 points 6 days ago

Break out the Whiskey, we're done boys. It was a good run.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Heads up if you get a lot of tech news/discussion from HN they appear to be heavily censoring submissions along these lines.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 days ago

Do you mean Hacker News?

[–] [email protected] 10 points 6 days ago

Nice, clearly this guy did well in college, I'd totally hire him for all my financial and secure resource needs (/s)

[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 days ago

I think the worst thing that could happen is capitalism continuing to function as "normal".

[–] [email protected] 7 points 6 days ago

Einstein was also young though so maybe these guys…ahh they’re so fooked

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