how come hackers never do anything cool like erase debt or steal from the ultra wealthy or completely obliterate the credit reporting agencies

[aeva@mastodon.gamedev.place]

@pupxel skill issue

[video_game_king@mastodon.social]

@aeva My guess is it's like that part of Kill la Kill when Inumuta meets Satsuki.
https://youtu.be/gAbSbNyyDM0

[hipsterelectron@circumstances.run]

@aeva i'm working on it

[hipsterelectron@circumstances.run]

@aeva i'm actually not bc unlike batman my code is "don't work on evil shit" and it's hard to work on hacking into things without losing your soul i think systems of protection are very important to build but some day we will have to go on the attack and i will have my spell slots ready to play healer

[madengineering@hachyderm.io]

@aeva The hacking stuff might convince a computer that the debt isn't real, but a bank probably also has it on paper somewhere and will re-enter it when it notices the discrepency.

So now we're talking about a heist.

[howtophil@mastodon.social]

@madengineering @aeva

Step 1: Social Engineering to convince banks to "go paperless"
Step 2: Oopsie, the system erased itself.
Step 3: Party like it's a debt-free world?

[madengineering@hachyderm.io]

@howtophil @aeva You still have to heist the bank to make sure the backups also do not show the debt, but that said, your plan made me evil laugh pretty hard.

[hipsterelectron@circumstances.run]

@madengineering @aeva it could go deeper. we could attack the capital

[jackmexa4@mastodon.social]

@aeva

Only Mr Robot
and Tyler Durden, but he went analogue

And none in real life.

[howtophil@mastodon.social]

@madengineering @aeva It requires a concerted effort of an army of hackers/social-engineers to slowly overthrow the banking infrastructure over the course of decades. I, of course, have nothing to do with any such plan, and it... is... completely... fictional

[be@floss.social]

@madengineering @aeva Serious question, do banks keep stuff on paper these days?

[madengineering@hachyderm.io]

@be @aeva They do have accounting, and I've seen banks largely computerize it, but I've also seen them keep a literal book as a sort of emergency backup.

[madengineering@hachyderm.io]

@hipsterelectron @aeva War is decisively out of my skillset, I can't even win a game of chess.

[be@floss.social]

@madengineering @aeva It does seem awfully silly to trust computers with such things.

[hipsterelectron@circumstances.run]

@madengineering @aeva i'm terrible at chess https://circumstances.run/@hipsterelectron/117488076396220087

[madengineering@hachyderm.io]

@be @aeva After all, in the event of a prolonged power outage, people might still want to withdraw money.

[hipsterelectron@circumstances.run]

@be @madengineering @aeva the IRS has paper backups

[be@floss.social]

@hipsterelectron @madengineering @aeva Are you sure about that in the post-DOGE era?

[madengineering@hachyderm.io]

@be @hipsterelectron @aeva Banks knowing how much money you've deposited, and thus how much you can demand back from them, is serious business for banks.
Wouldn't want me to withdraw a million dollars that I don't actually have now, would you?

[hipsterelectron@circumstances.run]

@be @madengineering @aeva the IRS is more important than you would expect