Nathan Tankus

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348 appearances 2 recordings 1 series first heard Feb 2025 last heard 17 Jul

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Odd Lots · The Treasury Payment System Elon Musk Now Has Access To · 5 Feb 2025 podcast

They're ru these servers are now, at least I think for the most part, running on Linux servers.

So that they've got modern operating systems.

But they're still very, very complex and it's still COBOL and it's still decades and decades of business logic making the system run.

Mm-hmm.

You know, and m all of these systems are highly confidential system.

In every bank in the world, in every you know, major insurance company, every government.

government.

So there just is not like a set an example of confidential data set of these things that can run on.

And you know, I should say, and this is part of why I'm

so, you know, adept for this moment that my father was a cobalt programmer at Morgan Stanley, and he for almost twenty years, he was the person in charge of making sure every financial advisor got their compensation.

I've been telling him for the last three days, please let me uh you know, be uh me in the odd lots interview.

Please, please.

And uh it's gonna take me a uh a a a couple of weeks to uh you can do it, Nathan.

I believe I'm I'm I'm working out this this is the hardest informant uh task that I've that that that I've had of the last five days.

So, you know, there was a lot of very terrifying reporting.

You know, I I you want to make a point of saying that when I first read the Washington Post reporting, which is the s the source that broke this in 3 p.m., I was absolutely terrified.

I had an absolute panic attack.

And, you know, as this story got started developing in Saturday, anonymous sources started

leading, say the New York Times, other sources to update their articles saying, well, they only have read only access.

But these this was there was never any public confirmation idea.

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