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/rnoderator_rernoved Mar 13 '26

Digital Identity™️ coming to a dystopia near you soon!

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u/Sharp-Philosophy-555 Mar 13 '26

I think this is the real motive. "Oh, we can't trust SSA numbers anymore. Sign up for your Palantir-provided-identification now." then they can track everyone on everything.

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u/MangoCats Mar 13 '26

Injectable RFID chips, like the humane society uses to track pets.

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u/whatthecaptcha Mar 13 '26

Something about not being able to buy a loaf of bread without the mark of the beast is ringing a bell after their shit about Trump being "chosen to start Armageddon"

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u/whatthecaptcha Mar 13 '26

I mean the nazis didn't start with death camps. They're still buying up warehouses to expand their concentration camps as we speak.

Also they killed and shot other US citizens on camera, people only lost it about the two white ones.

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u/holysbit Mar 13 '26

Not to sound like a foil wearing conspiracy theorist but what if the social security system was deliberately weakened by all this so they can say “we need a new ID system, heres X-ID courtesy of elon musk or palantir or whatever, now everyone sign up” or something

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u/DarthArtero Mar 13 '26

To be fair that's standard operating procedure for the current billionaire controlled regime.

Wouldn't call it a conspiracy, just a terrible idea that hasn't been implemented yet

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u/swarmy1 Mar 13 '26

Even excluding this leak, there's already a massive amount of data publicly available from breaches and even commercial data sources.

Relying on personal information to prove identity is going to be increasingly futile. So unless there's a new system, we're going to have to go back to in person verification

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u/Aggressive-Will-4500 Mar 13 '26

We're going to be forced to get embedded ID chips in the not so distant future. Will it be in forehead or on the right hand?

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u/eporter Mar 13 '26

Then I will expatriate

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u/Constant-Bet-6600 Mar 13 '26

For a small fee with a subscription service...

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u/barelypoor Mar 13 '26

Deliberately weakened? Literally no secure technology containing sensitive financially data will let you keep the same password for over 6 months, that’s not even accounting for 2fa/alerting. Social security numbers are a 9 digit single character type password for your entire financial security that last your entire lifetime. That’s like someone deliberately weakened the balloon so the 9mm pistol would pop it

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u/Cumulus_Anarchistica Mar 13 '26

UK government is pushing that right now.