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.
  • tyler@programming.dev
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    27 days ago

    Blockchain is three things, not just a merkle tree.

    1. Distributed
    2. Cryptographically signed
    3. Distrust of all others on the chain.

    Git isn’t a blockchain. Blockchain requires mistrust, else it’s just previous technology that existed decades before.