What's the point of their rewriting the code from COBOL? They seems to be obsessed with this. Part of me feels it's just a trojan horse for them to put back doors in core systems.
The goal isn’t to backdoor anything. Copy the data which they did when they hard physical access to it all then force the government to use them and pay them. Wipe out the agencies and bring the needed ones under the commerce department like they have already started to do.
Surely there are government safe guards on state data ownership? Even wiping out an agency, wouldn't the data remain archived at minimum and the sole property of the govt/ US people generally? What's the point of replacing COBOL in any case? It's old sure, but it's solid. Is this just a matter of them re-platforming it for their people?
Privatization, all laid out in project 2025. Written by the current head of office of budget management and funded by the current commerce secretary back when he was the chairman of Cantor Fitzgerald which was only 3 months ago. Oh btw his son is now the chairman there. Removing the post office, taking the pension billions and selling the property. Then going after all federal lands including national parks.
I get the angle, I just don't understand why they are so desperate to do a re-write of the code specifically. COBOL works, and they could easily take on the COBOL people they fired if they wanted to keep it in one piece. The re-write has to be for other reasons (because it's expensive as hell to do this), and there are only a few I can think of:
-they want to sell back a re-written product
-they want to back door the system and put it in place either publically or privately
-they want a replatform that will play well with their AI
There literally no financial benefit to a re-write (even if they wanted to privatize) unless they're wanting to get it re-platformed specifically for other engineering reasons. I guess AI compatibility makes the most sense now I think about it.
I totally believe your points, I just don't see en engineering benefit to a re-write (even for privatization) unless there's a secondary benefit at play for which we are not aware.
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u/CV90_120 1d ago
What's the point of their rewriting the code from COBOL? They seems to be obsessed with this. Part of me feels it's just a trojan horse for them to put back doors in core systems.