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rickford66

(5,913 posts) Mon Feb 17, 2025, 07:29 PM Feb 2025

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Get this straight ... they're not coders and programmers [View all]

they are hackers. I never deleted code until I had a correct or better solution.

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Get this straight ... they're not coders and programmers [View all] rickford66 Feb 2025 OP

Yes. They are hackers, who probably never wrote legitimate code for a job or something similar. SWBTATTReg Feb 2025 #1

Are you saying they're deleting the original code without getting the new code approved? Baitball Blogger Feb 2025 #2

Allegedly rickford66 Feb 2025 #3

I wouldn't put it past them. forgotmylogin Feb 2025 #37

I'll bet $100.00 today that someday in the future we will find out that eveyone one them could write the coded to.. usaf-vet Feb 2025 #39

Yes they most likely will have permanent access to all the data. Irish_Dem Feb 2025 #40

That was my first take as well. Evolve Dammit Feb 2025 #4

Just there to install hardware and software backdoors into the systems. erronis Feb 2025 #5

"BoneSaw MbS" Dave Bowman Feb 2025 #29

This is really like something . . . Richard D Feb 2025 #6

Or us Dan Feb 2025 #8

Especially us. Abolishinist Feb 2025 #22

total silence from the assholes who whined about Hillary's emails Skittles Feb 2025 #7

Yepper........total silence........... turbinetree Feb 2025 #14

They won't tell or show anyone what they are doing IronLionZion Feb 2025 #9

Not coders. Not hackers, they are a flippin VIRUS Attilatheblond Feb 2025 #26

Who's going to hold them accountable? IronLionZion Feb 2025 #30

Yet Eloon swore up and down in the Oval Office that this was the most transparent thing since Saran Wrap. OMGWTF Feb 2025 #36

Wait... ancianita Feb 2025 #10

Hacking, not coding or programming. rickford66 Feb 2025 #16

Sorry, they're not separate entities; there's a lot of overlap. ancianita Feb 2025 #17

Agreed Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Feb 2025 #11

GOD DAMN FUCKING RIGHT! FHRRK Feb 2025 #12

Agreed they are hackers...............if I did the shit they are doing I would be in jail......... turbinetree Feb 2025 #13

"deleted code"? Is there some context we are all supposed to know about here? Some news story about deleting? Bernardo de La Paz Feb 2025 #15

The reply upstream was "allegedly".... reACTIONary Feb 2025 #25

Thanks. Unfortunately too many DUers swallow rumours as if they were fact. . . . .nt Bernardo de La Paz Feb 2025 #27

I notice there is a claim that one of these "genuses" translated a scroll from Pompei using AI dflprincess Feb 2025 #18

a lot of the stuff their screwing with is written in COBOL moonshinegnomie Feb 2025 #19

My sister knows cobol I_UndergroundPanther Feb 2025 #33

Then there's a good chance the data is stored in IMS/DB JustABozoOnThisBus Feb 2025 #38

Aren't all the old systems based on windows? Linda ladeewolf Feb 2025 #20

The original systems were in assembler, then Cobol on IBM mainframes rickford66 Feb 2025 #21

My brother studied Linda ladeewolf Feb 2025 #23

There are no dumb questions. rickford66 Feb 2025 #24

I was a mainframe operator for decades Skittles Feb 2025 #32

Many are COBOL obamanut2012 Feb 2025 #35

Many of the best hackers are Russian ... FakeNoose Feb 2025 #28

. yellow dahlia Feb 2025 #31

This the muskrat who fired the Nuclear specialists LetMyPeopleVote Feb 2025 #34

Now he will remember what they do. John Farmer Feb 2025 #42

If they could cause the SS system to crash in an unrecoverable way, they'd not need to pay people John Farmer Feb 2025 #41

Silicon Valley - move fast and break things ... OldBoss Feb 2025 #43

Here's an article from Wired HarryM Feb 2025 #44

And I "remarked" everything I did, so anyone could come in slightlv Feb 2025 #45

Here is a good list of these hackers/muskrats LetMyPeopleVote Mar 2025 #46