Wasn't this the plot to one of the Die Hards. Except they just went in and did it.
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Wonder if the muskrat would be triggered by being called Hans Gruber. Or some variation...
How about... Hans Groomer.
Anybody else got one?
Handsy Grabber.
I like it. Then the celebrity couple name mashup for our glorious leaders can be Small Hands Groomer.
that will prove very lucrative to the industrious hacker in the third world.
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?
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.
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.
Isn’t this the plot to Mr Robot?
It's a common hacker dream since looooong before that. Bringing the score to zero.
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Break out the Whiskey, we're done boys. It was a good run.
Pushing code directly to Prod in a payments system handling trillions of $ is going to end in an almighty bang...
In their quest for ever moar, the capitalists sowed the seeds of their own destruction...
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.
You're telling me you want to update a typo from 'teh' to 'the' but it's in the same package as this important file? Fuck that, that's another 3 weeks of certification.
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.
We told people to stop giving Brawndo to crops and now the economy computer failed. Brought to you by Carl's Jr.
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Musk robs the treasury blind then Trump pardons him. Biggest heist ever.
Fucker thinks hes Gus Gorman in Superman III and thinks salami slicing is his get rich quick scheme.
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I think the worst thing that could happen is capitalism continuing to function as "normal".
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.
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.
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US is fucked. Is this going to be a Reichstag Fire moment?
They're past that, honestly. The SCOTUS decision on the POTUS being above the law was that moment.
The POTUS has the same power that Hitler wielded after the Reichstag fire. Then they elected the worst person to have that power.
You know the person weighing Hitler down was warmonger president Paul Hindenburg. There's none of them in the US, and the only judiciary that could, won't stop him.
Yeah but they still need some sort of excuse to declare an emergency, impose Marshall Law and round up all the Democrats and “DEI” workers. The functional collapse of the government would be very convenient for them.
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Back door to US government on sale on the black market for the highest bid.
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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I guess there are no checks and balances that apply?
Sorry, no. We'd need 60 votes in the Senate and a majority on the SCOTUS to stop this.
Sorry, no, he meant there are no checks -as in bank checks- because all the balances -as in account balances- are now zero after all the money has now disappeared.
So, literally, no checks and balances.
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Technically, this is the executive branch working within itself.
Now, the check on executive stupidity to this extreme is impeachment, but that's never gonna happen with the Republican party in charge of both houses of Congress.
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