Wasn’t this the plot to one of the Die Hards. Except they just went in and did it.
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.
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
No need you can just get an llm to convert your JavaScript into COBOL
good point
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.
that will prove very lucrative to the industrious hacker in the third world.
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.
Yeah, Mr. Robot is based on the Anonymous movement.
US is fucked. Is this going to be a Reichstag Fire moment?
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.
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.
Fyi, it’s martial law.
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
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…
Musk robs the treasury blind then Trump pardons him. Biggest heist ever.
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.
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?
Break out the Whiskey, we’re done boys. It was a good run.
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.
I don’t regret to inform you the count is up to 13 times. Some of these documents are export restricted or controlled and not classified, but it’s still extremely funny either way every time it happens.
Just wait until they allow bitcoin transfers over tor… Its a featured not a bug…
What happened in Albania was that a bunch of people, basically, stole most of the money in the country. It caused a civil war, sort of. Nobody ever got their money back either.
I would like to say it’s more complicated than that, here, but I’m not sure that it is. My one consolation is that Musk and Trump have not the slightest idea what they’re fucking with or what they’re up against, if it really gets its dander up at them, but that’s at minimum 40% wishful thinking on my part.
I would like to say it’s more complicated than that, here, but I’m not sure that it is.
The US has infinitely deep pockets, practically speaking. That produces a lot of fraud and embezzlement, but its not like you can just walk away with the real material assets of the country (particularly since so much has already all been carved up and privatized out).
What you can do is break down the flow of commerce passing through the federal government and send a bunch of contractors and federal staffers spiraling into bankruptcy. All those hospitals that rely on Medicare/Medicaid payments, all the MICs that the Pentagon has to pay to keep delivering goods and services, all the folks on SS getting a direct deposit… You could fuck up a lot just by stalling when those payments get processed.
It’s more complicated, without a doubt. But that doesn’t improve the situation. We already saw what happened when the private sector financial flow got snarled up in 2008. God only knows what’s going to happen when Musk and Trump decide to start labeling half the Treasury’s recipients “DEI”.
Strap in, folks…
My one consolation is that Musk and Trump have not the slightest idea what they’re fucking with or what they’re up against
I think they’ve discovered, over the last twelve years, that nobody is guarding the hen house. You really can just send four schmucks with a basic understanding of Quickbooks into the US Treasury and have them start meddling with trillions of dollars in cash flow.
What they’re “up against” is a paper tiger.
Yeah. American’s wealth is not in the computers of the federal reserve. We have a continent’s worth of resources; armies upon armies of smart, committed, talented people; education; strong businesses; technical knowledge of an incredible variety; and most importantly, we’re still attractive enough (or were, as of last year) to be attracting the best and brightest of the world to come and add to the fire and keep it going. For as much as we’ve been fucking it up for the last fifty years, that all still remains true to a pretty large degree. Everything that happens in the treasury department draws off of that capital. Nothing that happens out in the world depends, at the root, on the computer that Musk now has access to.
But, it’s also true that the financial world is a city in the clouds. Pop the bubble, and sometimes it takes quite a long time to rebuild and inflate back to its former size. Maybe it’s a good thing. Maybe it’s a catastrophe in the making. I don’t know, to be honest. But “strap in” sounds just about fucking right, it’s not going to be simple or smooth.
The “wealth” of empire is in petrol-dollars, saudi tyrants, environmental destruction, international exploitation/theft, endless violence, etc.
armies upon armies of smart, committed, talented people; education;
lol.
Yeah, true that. There’s a whole history of theft and oppression that I’m glossing over there. I do think that about 50% of it was legitimate hard work.
I also think it is fascinating that, after 50 years of the working class going to open war with capitalism to fight for a decent way to live and a decent system (1880-1930), the US spent the next 50 years becoming the most powerful country on earth. I think those two are highly related and the connection is almost never talked about. We spent a lot of the years before 1880 stealing and oppressing just as hard, and it didn’t really do shit for us in terms of building a modern-US-style type of wealth and privilege.
The implications under that theory for what’s about to happen, based on what the current system is for how long, are pretty unsettling to me.
It was also kind of sort of every other first world economy getting bombed into the ground twice in a row which left the US as the only major manufacturing centre for a long time and able to reap massive benefits from that position.
Yeah, but there are always big world events that someone could have capitalized on. China could be the dominant power today, or South America. The US just hit on a successful formula for it in a way that a whole lot of other governments and groupings of people did not, and I’m saying that having a massive population base that genuinely believed in the program that the government was selling was a big part of why that happened.
It didn’t happen on its own, the people had to fight for it against active deadly government resistance. But once it happened, it turned out to be the best thing that ever happened to either the people or the government. And then, not knowing what they had, the government and the people let it fall to ruin, and now we’re fucked.
They’re specifically putting in place a measure to hide that they blocked payments. So the government books will read that it was properly paid but the money won’t go.
I wonder what they could possibly want to do with that money. Politically they could just lie about paying it. They’ve done that to great success already. So for what possible reason could they want to spoof the accounts book?
? That’s actually extremely secure
Yes but hard to trace. Not impossible to trace but allows government corruption money to flow.
Is that a joke? Its a public ledger thats easier to trace than USD
I think the worst thing that could happen is capitalism continuing to function as “normal”.
I thought this was an onion article
