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.
    • futatorius@lemm.eeEnglish
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      5 days ago

      They’ll have backups. And those backups and associated restore processes would never have been properly tested.

      I’ve come to places where that happened and there were very few remaining IT ops people after the mass firing that followed.