Wasn’t this the plot to one of the Die Hards. Except they just went in and did it.
Break out the Whiskey, we’re done boys. It was a good run.
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.
Fight club also.
Someone forgot rules one and two…
Sneakers too
Yeah, Mr. Robot is based on the Anonymous movement.
Why would the government mandate backdoors? This is at best security through obscurity and sooner or later someone will find the backdoor. And here I thought the US government was using something mathematically proven to be secure like AES and perhaps even using 256bit keys just to be safe against possible brute force attacks.
Edit: There’s newer algorithms now. Perhaps supercomputers have gotten fast enough to brute force AES. I took cryptography 20 years ago so I am out of date.
Edit2: I guess AES is still secure as of 2023 at least:
Attacks have been published that are computationally faster than a full brute-force attack, though none as of 2023 are computationally feasible.
I think the worst thing that could happen is capitalism continuing to function as “normal”.
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.
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.
Ugh I hate it.
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.
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….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?
dude it’s not even written in a language this kid understands… he’s just implementing a patch other people wrote
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.
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?
We worry about that next quarter.
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.
Damn what a reference lol
Context? Is this about that tank game?
Yeah, some kid leaked classified info to prove a point on discord lol. I think it’s happened twice now actually.
Highest bid?
These stupid fucks couldn’t even imagine what this data is worth if they would wait minimum one year.
US is fucked. Is this going to be a Reichstag Fire moment?
Nah if this happened, trump would say that each person now owes him millions of dollars (scaling based on assets) and MAGAS would line up to thank him for shielding them from the evil banks
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.
We are one rm -rf away from away from being absolutely fucked.
You didn’t say sudo, so it’ll be ok.
This 25-year-old always logs in as root
Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhh. I hate ittttt
Simon says sudo.
Heads up if you get a lot of tech news/discussion from HN they appear to be heavily censoring submissions along these lines.
Do you mean Hacker News?
I guess there are no checks and balances that apply?
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.
Sorry, no. We’d need 60 votes in the Senate and a majority on the SCOTUS to stop this.
Why do we need both congress and the judiciary? Can’t congress kick him out all by themselves?
SCOTUS declares the impeachment was done wrong for some magical reason. Trump refuses to recognize it. And cue the pre-documentary Civil War that released recently.
To stop it through the government
