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The xz backdoor thing reminds me of a story
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#12I don't doubt that this happened, but if you use e-verify and fill in Form I-9 how does this happen? I'm in the middle of hiring an F-1 student on OPT and I need to look at his EAD and verify it's not fake according to my lawyer. So I do. Nice and easy.
It says it was a couple decades ago
Can't be that many (3?) if they made cell phones.
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#13I don't doubt that this happened, but if you use e-verify and fill in Form I-9 how does this happen? I'm in the middle of hiring an F-1 student on OPT and I need to look at his EAD and verify it's not fake according to my lawyer. So I do. Nice and easy.
Intelligence agencies can presumably mint valid SSNs along with other identity documents to use in situations like this.
They can’t forge a chipped passport unless they somehow got hold of the private key for the country’s CSCA certificate.
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Was that before or after he told you people were hypnotizing you through the TV and tried to sell you nutritionally complete frozen burritos?
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#15> None of his paychecks were ever cashed I don't understand this. People were paid by cheque in the early 2000s?
Developer in the Midwest. I was paid by paper check brought to my desk by the office manager from early-aughts until 2012 when they switched to direct deposit.
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#16> None of his paychecks were ever cashed I don't understand this. People were paid by cheque in the early 2000s?
I certainly got checks at internships in 1999-2000 and at a job I briefly held in 2001. I guess my first real-real job was 2006 and for sure I got checks for at least the first few months. It was a mild pain to do the (literal) paperwork for direct deposit, and a mild pain to receive checks (I'd categorize it as a major pain now, but you were running errands more often then and even at the bank for other crap), so laziness won for a while.
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#17Earlier quoted context omitted.
Intelligence agencies can presumably mint valid SSNs along with other identity documents to use in situations like this.
They can’t forge a chipped passport unless they somehow got hold of the private key for the country’s CSCA certificate.
Doing such a thing is entirely within the purview and capability set of an intelligence agency.
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#19Earlier quoted context omitted.
Intelligence agencies can presumably mint valid SSNs along with other identity documents to use in situations like this.
They can’t forge a chipped passport unless they somehow got hold of the private key for the country’s CSCA certificate.
Why would you need to? Passports are not required to hire a person; most americans don’t even have one.
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#20> None of his paychecks were ever cashed I don't understand this. People were paid by cheque in the early 2000s?
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