Also his tech 'geniuses' are a bunch of kids whose knowledge of computers and networks only extends to being able to facilitate cybercrimes. 'Big Balls', that 19 year old punk, absolutely did tech support for cybercriminals when he was in high school. They don't know jack shit about computer science and sure as HELL do not understand the complexity of dealing with a massive system like the Social Security database.

I studied CS on my own time for years and even took a web dev bootcamp (still didn't get the job, sadly), and even looking at their bullshit attempts at 'modernizing' the older database is heart-attack inducing. I remember when I was in bootcamp we all had to make a brand new site from scratch, but they also made it clear that in the real world it is a rare occasion that we actually get to make a brand new site for a client, and almost always we will be working with a massive existing site that can have a massive combination of old and new coding that has been around since forever.

Take some sites like Amazon or eBay. They've been around since the 90s. You think the website was once taken down in its entirety and had something entirely new made? That didn't happen. They were built slowly over time, tweaked, improved, had the substitute newer parts slowly and steadily integrated before taking over the older stuff.

But something like the SS database is something far, far larger and far far more important than either eBay or Amazon. If something goes wrong with amazon and I lose my ancient account, then so what? I can just make a new account, and I won't be impacted. Hell, it might be a good thing since as a privacy guy, I would like it if I could have all my previous purchases purged from time to time. But I do not want shit from the government that I absolutely need as long as I live (and even for relatives who would survive me) destroyed like that on a big 'whoopsie!'