At this point my ss number has been stolen by so many people I'm not sure this matters.
I still want Elon nailed to a pole by his genitalia and set on fire for what he and big balls did.
But I use to work for the DOD and the Chinese kept breaking into OPM's computers and stealing everything about me. So I'm pretty sure my clone is out there somewhere enjoying my high credit score.
This number is required sharing so often by the time you hit middle age, there are good odds it’s in the wind already.
a little-known federal tech team called the Department of Government Efficiency, or DOGE
Little-known? Really?
The whole idea that we have some permanent "secret" number which is used to uniquely identify us is just really, really dumb in this day and age. There are better solutions, but they are hard, cost money and will probably face an insane level of political resistance. So, we continue to lurch on with the dead corpse of a bad idea that is social security numbers. But hey, at least it's cheap, right?
Open article, Ctrl+F "DOGE", yep.
I think most sane, thinking people assumed data theft was going on all along. It was the main purpose of DOGE, who were placed in our institutions by a corrupt president and pretended to be there to save the government money.
And I bet if they are changed or reissued, certain people won't be given one.
Yep.
Thats Elon's tech expertise right there.
Quite literally doxxed the entire country and more than likely comprimised the security of basically everything he touched.
In a sane world, he'd be in some kind of fucking hyper prison, for directing and overseeing the largest data breach essentially in all of history.
If somebody hacked in remotely and did this... they would be in hyper prison, serving like thousands of life sentences.
2-year credit monitoring service, take it or leave it.
Just make social security numbers public information at this point. Who cares. Don't develop your security model around a users SS number being secret.
Remember, freeze on all your credit accounts. In fact this should be an opt out situation at this point, you should have to request NOT to have a freeze on your accounts at all anymore.
If they do, I'm sure this will be particularly fun as an overseas citizen (planning to renounce when my parents pass or I can convince them to GTFO... which is not happening while either of my Trumper step-parents are alive).
Well, I already have no credit, what with the poverty.
Sounds like The Goblin is in town.
Reminder, everyone should have frozen their credit at all three bureaus after the Equifax breach anyway. Everyone's identity has been compromised for a while.
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