Borges alleges that a little-known federal tech team called the Department of Government Efficiency, or DOGE, copied the government’s master Social Security database into a cloud system that lacked normal oversight.
If his account is correct, the mishandling of this information could expose hundreds of millions of people to fraud and abuse for the rest of their lives.
So did the government buildings not have security to prevent this sort of breach?
The security was deemed “inefficient”
I hope what changes is that they become useless as a secret number, and become only useful as identifying numbers.
I’m of the opinion that national ID numbers, finger prints, face recognition should be treated as a username, not like a password key for things.
This sounds like DOGE is going to cost the USA a shitton of money fixing their bullshit.
This also sounds like one particular person, with a fuck ton of cash, should be held responsible and pay for damages.
LOL. Who am I kidding. Musk will get an invented award when SSI collapses due to fraud. Then they’ll “have a concept of a plan” to fix it… in two weeks… forever.
Would be amazing to do a class action against him and cite the entire population of the USA as the prosecutor.
The people of the USA v. Elon Musk
If you want a picture of the future, many people are imagining concepts of big beautiful cankles in shoe lifts stamping on a non-orange (human) face in two weeks (forever)
– George Orwell 2: the Squeakuel
That threat’s name: Trump.
Unfortunately, I don’t see this in anyway not being used to promote Trump’s Voter ID push. I don’t have a problem with “Voter ID”, the EU has had national ID cards for quite a while, the problem is determining who gets them first and who runs into problems with them will be used by Trump to try to manipulate the elections. It will also definitely be used as the excuse to deploy ICE troops under.
a little-known federal tech team called the Department of Government Efficiency, or DOGE
Little known?
Really??
It’s sarcasm
it kind of makes sense when potus is a russian asset tasked with bringing the whole country down
it’s barely been a year, and look at all the damage done that will take decades to fix–IF it’s fixable
It isn’t fixable Cheeto man destroyed the US’s international position like none before and europe is done relying on the US. That will never go back.
Russia finally won the cold war in spades.
It really is genius. All Russia did was lean on the stupid people. Feed them lies, get them pissed off, and they’re more than happy to burn their own house down as a response.
It cost them almost nothing to wreck the USA.
It’s crazy when you think about it.
“a lie will circle the globe, while the truth is still putting on its shoes”
Put a freeze on your credit reports ASAP.
2FA will provide at least a bit of protection.
This whole story is a nothingburger made up by the administration to try and take over elections. Social Security numbers have all been leaked since at least the Equifax breaches in 2018 and since. Everyone should assume their number is compromised and have a freeze on at all the agencies.
“Might one day” need to be changed. Yes, they royally fucked it up, but there’s nothing new going on here, and that headline is a tad misleading.
“How could we have possibly known that this was going to happen?”
-The people who repeatedly dismissed all warnings that this was going to happen
After the Experian and AT&T and …. data breaches, I’m 100% certain my SSN is out there. You can’t rely on security through obscurity to protect it. You have to take active means such as freezing your credit and monitoring it for use.
Insanely preventable.
Planned.
Tbh I hope social security gets leaked enough to finally prompt action. Mine has been public knowledge ever since Equifax leaked it.
We’re going to give everyone new IDs, but in space.
- Elon, probably
Put it in the blockchain!
—Elon, in a k-hole
Considering the fact that there is no security or verification built in to the SS number, it is simply a serial number, this have been obvious for decades.
Even just implementing a checksum would increase security massively.
