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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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[–] [email protected] 27 points 5 days ago

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

[–] [email protected] 22 points 6 days ago (2 children)

Yeah but I bet he's a 10x ninja

[–] [email protected] 11 points 6 days ago (1 children)

100x ninja rockstar

[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 days 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

[–] [email protected] 8 points 6 days ago

Rockstar code shinobi

[–] [email protected] 19 points 6 days ago

juche-rose has an opportunity to do something very funny

[–] [email protected] 16 points 5 days ago

And here I thought the money was the one thing you couldn't fuck with.

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

Testing new code in production...

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 days 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.