DOGE Plans to Rebuild SSA Code Base in Months, Risking Benefits and System Collapse
www.wired.com
Social Security systems contain tens of millions of lines of code written in COBOL, an archaic programming language. Safely rewriting that code would take years—DOGE wants it done in months.
    • limer@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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      3 days ago

      More like the department will be crippled for years. The replaced code will not work, corrupting data. I fully expect them to make it hard to replace the new stuff with the older systems which has tens of millions of moving parts.

      The damage will be so great that people applying for social security a generation from now will still feel aftereffects

    • TachyonTele@lemm.ee
      3·
      3 days ago

      I’m willing to bet my house they won’t even be able to build funcional backdoors in the first place.

    • eran_morad@lemmy.world
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      3 days ago

      As if we don’t need to rebuild absolutely everything already. All our base are belong to the blyats.