<div dir="ltr"><span style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0.5em;padding:0px 0px 0px 1em;border-left:3px solid rgb(221,221,221);display:block;color:rgb(54,54,54);font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><a href="https://developers.slashdot.org/story/25/03/28/2148205/doge-to-rewrite-ssa-codebase-in-months?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed" target="_blank" style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small">https://developers.slashdot.org/story/25/03/28/2148205/doge-to-rewrite-ssa-</a></span><span style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0.5em;padding:0px 0px 0px 1em;border-left:3px solid rgb(221,221,221);display:block;color:rgb(54,54,54);font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><a href="https://developers.slashdot.org/story/25/03/28/2148205/doge-to-rewrite-ssa-codebase-in-months?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed" target="_blank" style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small">codebase-in-months?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed</a></span><span style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0.5em;padding:0px 0px 0px 1em;border-left:3px solid rgb(221,221,221);display:block;color:rgb(54,54,54);font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><br></span><span style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0.5em;padding:0px 0px 0px 1em;border-left:3px solid rgb(221,221,221);display:block;color:rgb(54,54,54);font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Hi Hidden Techies,</span><span style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0.5em;padding:0px 0px 0px 1em;border-left:3px solid rgb(221,221,221);display:block;color:rgb(54,54,54);font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Here's one for coders on the list. A friend sent me a link to this article in Wired. Apparently, DOGE techies are claiming they can rewrite the SSA code in months. Wire reports that the SSA codebase has <a href="https://oig.ssa.gov/congressional-testimony/2016-07-14-newsroom-congressional-testimony-july14-ssa-modernization/" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(0,102,102);box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px">over 60 million lines of COBOL</a> and handles record keeping for all American workers and payments for all Social Security recipients. </span><span style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0.5em;padding:0px 0px 0px 1em;border-left:3px solid rgb(221,221,221);display:block;color:rgb(54,54,54);font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">The aim is to migrate all  SSA systems off COBOL ... and onto a more modern replacement like Java within a scheduled tight timeframe of a few months," notes Wired.</span><span style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0.5em;padding:0px 0px 0px 1em;border-left:3px solid rgb(221,221,221);display:block;color:rgb(54,54,54);font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Some questions:</span><span style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0.5em;padding:0px 0px 0px 1em;border-left:3px solid rgb(221,221,221);display:block;color:rgb(54,54,54);font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Is it possible to handle this mammoth job in a month?</span><span style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0.5em;padding:0px 0px 0px 1em;border-left:3px solid rgb(221,221,221);display:block;color:rgb(54,54,54);font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">What happens if the techies in DOGE make mistakes?</span><span style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0.5em;padding:0px 0px 0px 1em;border-left:3px solid rgb(221,221,221);display:block;color:rgb(54,54,54);font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Would SSA have a backup system of the COBOL code?</span><span style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0.5em;padding:0px 0px 0px 1em;border-left:3px solid rgb(221,221,221);display:block;color:rgb(54,54,54);font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><br></span><span style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0.5em;padding:0px 0px 0px 1em;border-left:3px solid rgb(221,221,221);display:block;color:rgb(54,54,54);font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Let all of us oldsters who depend on our SSA benefits keep them safe. If any people can do this, I know either you can or know someone who can. Please post your thoughts to the list.</span><span style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0.5em;padding:0px 0px 0px 1em;border-left:3px solid rgb(221,221,221);display:block;color:rgb(54,54,54);font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">If you want to chat with me about this situation then call me at 413-362-4392. </span><span style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0.5em;padding:0px 0px 0px 1em;border-left:3px solid rgb(221,221,221);display:block;color:rgb(54,54,54);font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">thanks!</span><span style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0.5em;padding:0px 0px 0px 1em;border-left:3px solid rgb(221,221,221);display:block;color:rgb(54,54,54);font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><br></span><span style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0.5em;padding:0px 0px 0px 1em;border-left:3px solid rgb(221,221,221);display:block;color:rgb(54,54,54);font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Amy Zuckerman</span><span style="box-sizing:border-box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