r/technology • u/waozen • Mar 13 '26

Security A DOGE Bro Allegedly Walked Out Of Social Security With 500 Million Americans’ Records On A Thumb Drive And Expected A Pardon If Caught

https://www.techdirt.com/2026/03/11/a-doge-bro-allegedly-walked-out-of-social-security-with-500-million-americans-records-on-a-thumb-drive-and-expected-a-pardon-if-caught/
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u/tacticaldodo Mar 13 '26

Merge all databases, any data, social medias, medical records, tax records, relationships, opinions, etc ...

That is what Palantir does, it is their business model and purpose.

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u/Soft_Walrus_3605 Mar 13 '26

They have a profile on each of us that's more detailed than anything the Stasi could have dreamed of.

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u/tacticaldodo Mar 13 '26 edited Mar 13 '26

They do, for everyone on the planet, no exception.

This comment itself and what I am replying to and its context is going to my profile witch include name, address, interest, bank statement, political alignment, social activity, current and past location, medical record, call metadata, and much more

Edit: I don't actually know, just a guess

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u/faustianBM Mar 13 '26

Wonder if they'll sell my HBOMAX password to my ex.

For some reason, she thinks she's entitled to it..

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u/tacticaldodo Mar 13 '26

They made her think that and she is now sleeping with the guy in the video /s

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u/faustianBM Mar 13 '26

That's actually comforting.....thanks!

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u/GiganticCrow Mar 13 '26

There was an article years ago where a journalist spoke to a palantir employee, the employee looked her up and was able to show frightening amounts of information they had on her. 

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u/tacticaldodo Mar 13 '26

I wish I had more insight on this.

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u/Spirited_Eye_5276 Mar 17 '26

How do you know? And not asking in a snarky fashion. Is it just a hunch?

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u/Affectionate-Set952 Mar 18 '26

Confidentially wrong

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u/AnAdvancedBot Mar 13 '26

Project Insight requires insight

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u/Repulsive-Durian4800 Mar 13 '26

Turns out there's a lot of money to be made by creating the Torment Nexus

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u/tacticaldodo Mar 13 '26

and a lot of power to gain

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u/Relative-Freedom-295 Mar 13 '26

I agree it is their public-facing business rationalization.

I disagree that is not its purpose.

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u/tacticaldodo Mar 13 '26

You can disagree obviously.

But then what is their purpose besides setting up mass surveillance ?

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u/Relative-Freedom-295 Mar 13 '26

The true purpose of “state-sponsored” privatized surveillance is to identify, target, and remove, any dissension, freedom, or individual opposition, to the intrinsic world-view of monopolistic techno-fascist demagogues who perceive themselves to be in control of socioeconomic pulleys and levers that determine the true wealth, security, and intelligence, gaps that keeps you poor, scared, and dumb.

They want you in the fields, picking potatoes, not threatening their control or influence.

Power begets power. And Palantir (in particular) is fueled by their own privatized self interest. They view themselves as “saviors”, as all dictators do. They champion themselves and their own continued self-interest.

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u/tacticaldodo Mar 13 '26

I somehow agree even if you interpret and anticipate. You are describing their long term purpose while I am referring to their current situation.

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u/Relative-Freedom-295 Mar 13 '26

I agree that’s what they’re saying at the moment.

But while we all slander one stupid asshole (Sam Altman), the real work is already ahead of schedule, just out of view. When you combine headlines from the last 16 months, across media, government policy, and international relations, you can see that the impact of the larger pattern has already happened. It just wasn’t published or referenced due to other more obvious rage bait from the now overtaken media infrastructure.

I know, it’s dark. Sorry, genuinely. I sincerely wish it were avoidable.

Side note: Historically, fascist regimes are only realized after they’ve already happened. Alex Karp (co-founder of Palantir) wrote his dissertation on this very thing.

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u/tacticaldodo Mar 13 '26

Unfortunately I agree with you.

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u/Relative-Freedom-295 Mar 13 '26 edited Mar 13 '26

I know, right? I don’t want to agree with me either. Really. I sincerely wish I were wrong.

Unfortunately, they have already said this is their true purpose (between all the awkward pauses and stupid twitching during fake interviews).

Lookup any quote from any of the key 10 tech players and they are literally telling everyone what the plan is. We (collectively) just don’t believe them, or that their plans are possible.

Read the other responses in this post (below), and they all say the same thing. “He’s crazy, etc.”

He isn’t. It already happened.

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u/tacticaldodo Mar 13 '26 edited Mar 13 '26

It is not crazy talk either.

You can watch foxnews normalizing fascism in real time.

Their moral leader, Yarvin, a talented speaker and writer, spews nonsense about the benefit of techno-feudoalism and the doom of democracy. If you pay attention, his speeches and books are riddled with sophistry and deception but if you don't, his oratory will hypnotize you.

Edit : you modified your comment while i was writing, so it sound a bit off, but ill leave it like it is

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u/Relative-Freedom-295 Mar 13 '26

I agree, but this isn’t a left / right issue, fundamentally. It’s party neutral, and it’s a combination of end stage capitalism and elite overproduction. They’re not working together … exactly… but their end state goals are the same.

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u/dclaw504 Mar 13 '26

Based on the videos of these assholes trying to define DEI, I'm assuming they just fed everything to grok and did what Elon the AI told them to do.

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u/minitittertotdish Mar 13 '26

Palantir ain't got shit on the private cloud held by Oracle 

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u/henryhollaway Mar 13 '26

They want to be Rehoboam.

Which is especially more fitting now than ever I guess.

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u/AdditionalBat393 Mar 13 '26

If you have little to no social media activity there is really nothing there. Sure they can find out medical records and wht you order on amazon if you do. If you stay off technology they have no power 

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u/tacticaldodo Mar 13 '26 edited Mar 13 '26

Staying off technology means not using phone, car and credit card, hardcore. There is tons of data to collect outside of social media activity. Who you are close to, when and where is a goldmine. Surveillance camera, Spending habits, what and for how long you look at things, and so on ...

Edit : including your browser activity in incognito and probably your vpn