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According to many comments, the US government DOES use SQL, and Musk is not understanding much what's going on.

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[–] [email protected] 354 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Elon’s shock and fury about the database key sounds like he got a report from an out-of-breath 20 year old DOGE kid who thinks they’re hot shit and discovered some massive flaw.

Elon also seems like the kind of person that believes a database schema is all that’s needed to govern a population.

[–] [email protected] 129 points 2 months ago (1 children)

He’s mad because it isn’t blockchain

[–] [email protected] 65 points 2 months ago (3 children)

Goddammit, now you’re giving him ideas.

[–] [email protected] 39 points 2 months ago (3 children)

2027 Bingo Card: US adopts BTC as reserve currency, replaces USD, both crash.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 2 months ago (1 children)

BTC? No way, that's way too sane. It's going to be DOGE.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 months ago

Nah it'll be Trump Coin. Gotta own the grift from the top down

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago

It's not impossible. There are a lot of crypto grifters who have been prepping to scam the American government.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

Pretty sure that was already something they announced that they'd do.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 months ago (1 children)

He already wants to replace everything in the US with Blockchain and Crypto scam shit doesn't he?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago

Did you want to trust a central authority for your Social Security? It'll get censored! /s

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

I wouldn’t be giving him any ideas unless I founded a company and he bought his way in

[–] [email protected] 51 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (3 children)

Database schema = "Not fraudulant", what's so hard about that? Login credentials don't even need to be encrypted if you say no fraud before you log in, and cross your fingers. It's basic programming knowledge, come on man. Also throw some salt over shoulder and slaughter a goat for good measure just in case.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 months ago (1 children)

You just describe half of my career. 😅

[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 months ago (1 children)

You joke, but one of the programs at my work we use legit doesn't need credentials, just a username. That one's a head scratcher to me.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

Would that almost be OK if it were like 40 characters long? Like, you can view any photo on Google Photos if you have the right alphanumeric string

Would still be saved insecurely in password managers and other issues though

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago

Login credentials don’t even need to be encrypted if you say no fraud before you log in, and cross your fingers

Don't forget to unset the evil bit as well!

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Login? Why would I do that? Aren't the credentials in the code? I just hit the go button.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

In plain text I assume right? You're not crazy..

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

If they weren't in plain text how could we check to make sure it's still there?