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Re:Onlookers freak out as 25-year-old set loose on Treasury ... by gre on Tuesday February 04, 2025 @02:36PM (#42937460)
You don't think they grabbed one or two of the existing coders that know the system? (I have no idea)
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Re:Onlookers freak out as 25-year-old set loose on Treasury ... by crooked-v on Tuesday February 04, 2025 @03:21PM (#42938052)
The article explicitly mentions how the system's normal maintainers are in a panic because this kid 'Fred' they have no info about (not even a last name) has unlimited access to change things.
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Re:Onlookers freak out as 25-year-old set loose on Treasury ... by Gud on Tuesday February 04, 2025 @03:17PM (#42938003)
No, I don't think so.

I think it's the dumbest, high confidence kids(with big egos) in the room who agree to do shit like this.

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Re:Onlookers freak out as 25-year-old set loose on Treasury ... by Mustachio on Tuesday February 04, 2025 @03:23PM (#42938071)
PR submitted, comments by concerned coders with years experience in the system overruled and force merged with message "wcgw".
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