that will prove very lucrative to the industrious hacker in the third world.
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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?
I like it. Then the celebrity couple name mashup for our glorious leaders can be Small Hands Groomer.
Handsy Grabber.
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.
I think the worst thing that could happen is capitalism continuing to function as "normal".
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?
Yeah, Mr. Robot is based on the Anonymous movement.
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
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.
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.
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