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Social Security & Medicare

CousinIT

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4. Installing untested crap on a critical production system? NO SANE IT PERSON WOULD DO THAT!

Reply to ailsagirl (Original post)

Wed Apr 9, 2025, 02:47 PM

Apr 9

And like others have posted here, I suspect at least part of their crap is undetectable backdoors funneling money to Musk, Theil, etc, out of the trust fund.

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What I just came upon re Social Security [View all] ailsagirl Apr 9 OP

Deliberately installed poorly disguised spyware, more like. pnwest Apr 9 #1

Yup! You are exactly right. Quakerfriend Apr 9 #3

He's changing the code. gab13by13 Apr 9 #2

This latest assault smacks of desperation. ailsagirl Apr 9 #5

Installing untested crap on a critical production system? NO SANE IT PERSON WOULD DO THAT! CousinIT Apr 9 #4

You mentioned "sanity" ailsagirl Apr 9 #6

Their motto is move fast and break things...nt mitch96 Apr 9 #7

It's likely written in Cobol language. 25 years ago the state I live in couldn't find Cobol programmers. usaf-vet Apr 9 #8

I have recently heard that COBOL has, in a way, protected the huge federal systems from more frequent and successful liberalla Apr 10 #9

Wow, a great story. 88 was just about in the same time frame that my post is referring to--the entire state's schools. usaf-vet Apr 10 #10