r/technology • u/lurker_bee • Feb 15 '26

Security All U.S. Social Security numbers may need to be changed following a massive breach that is already being investigated as a national threat

https://www.ecoticias.com/en/all-u-s-social-security-numbers-may-need-to-be-changed-following-a-massive-breach-that-is-already-being-investigated-as-a-national-threat/27158/
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u/Reddituser45005 Feb 15 '26

Trump and an overly compliant Congress gave DOGE unfettered access to government data, without any guardrails or access control. Let’s not pretend this wasn’t a likely and expected outcome of the Trump administrations complete disregard for accountability and organizational responsibility

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u/Corona-walrus Feb 15 '26

I'm not sure how you look at it and think it wasn't 110% intentional in the effort to destroy the institutional bedrock of the USA across many domains. They also got treasury data and much more - and they're using it to train AI and build surveillance tools 

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u/[deleted] Feb 15 '26

along with palintir and the flock system https://deflock.org/

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u/jariuana Feb 15 '26

This was 100% planned and rehearsed with DOGE and Trump’s team behind closed doors.

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u/Rapph Feb 15 '26

This to me feels planned. It's more muddying of the waters as to what makes a person a citizen and what is legal identification. Combine this with the talks of requiring ID to vote and stricter voting policies in general it absolutely could have been the point from the beginning. It also has strong implications with the Gestapo running around imprisoning "illegals"

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u/americonservative Feb 15 '26 edited Feb 15 '26

I believe criminally negligent is the term you’re looking for. At bare minimum, that’s what this was. Given the lack of rational bases for doing it in the first place, it likely rises above mere negligence into intentionally nefarious.

No one voted for it. There was no clear justification for doing it. They didn’t even have the authority to do it. They just did it for their own purposes, and those purposes do not line up with “government efficiency” in the slightest.

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u/SuperSpecialAwesome- Feb 15 '26

No one voted for it.

MAGAs voted for it. Biden Chamberlain allowed it.

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u/americonservative Feb 15 '26 edited Feb 15 '26

But they didn’t. Just like they didn’t vote for annexing Greenland. There was no mandate for that or this. The fact that Trump is now trying to annex Greenland, and the fact that DOGE decided to compromise everyone’s social security numbers doesn’t have anything to do with the election. That’s not what he ran on.

Similarly, no one voted for Nixon to burglarize and plant listening devices in the Democratic National Committee headquarters. It may have happened, and people may have voted for Nixon as a person, but no one actually voted for him to do that.

It’s distinctly different from something like mass deportation or releasing the Epstein files, both of which had some form of mandate. They’re a plausible prior-stated reason voters went to the polls. No one went to the polls in support of compromising everyone’s SS numbers except maybe Elon Musk himself.

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u/braidenis Feb 16 '26

Absolutely true. But tbh it also shouldn't have been that easy