For some reason, Elon hates old people, including Cobol and older adults. He wants to do it quickly, killing two birds with one stone.
For some reason, Elon hates old people, including Cobol and older adults. He wants to do it quickly, killing two birds with one stone.
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Isn’t a benefit to these systems still being COBOL is that they’re hard to hack?
Obscurity is not security. We've learned a lot about security in the post 20 years, let alone the last 40
No, cobol is not more secure because it's a dead language. Obscurity is a hurdle, security is a wall - security is mathematical and good practices, obscurity is just being weird. It takes a bit longer to get past the weird, getting past a solid wall is a matter of luck or brilliance
The programming language itself rarely opens hacking opportunities in my experience. It is more the design of the system and potential bugs introduced by the dev can be exploited as well.
Luckily DOGE has already breached dozens of hardened systems and created a single point of failure to collapse US government wide systems, and when it happens, they'll be sure to blame Biden.
Not really, no.