Why would Russian military personnel have Social Security Numbers?
Why wouldn’t they?
Alleged full dump of Russian military personnel, including IDs and SSNs
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#22Earlier quoted context omitted.
It doesn’t literally say SSNs, but “идентификационные коды” which translates as (and sounds like) “identification codes”.
Are their identification codes used as a shitty master password to their life too? I'd love to get to a system where your tax id was assumed to public knowledge
Sweden for example implements the public knowledge side of it, forcing identification to be reliable and 2FA.
> The link between a person and the identity number is established through the civil registry and through identity documents and secondarily through the widespread use of the number in various contacts with authorities, businesses etc. They are necessary for personal service at banks, authorities, health care and other services which use the personal identity number. Most people are familiar with their full number and those of their children without hesitation. Personal identity numbers of individuals are openly available from the Swedish tax authorities to anyone who asks (over phone, letter, over the desk, but not over the internet), according to the Swedish principle of freedom of information. Redistribution of these numbers using computers is, however, governed by the law of personal details, an implementation of the Data Protection Directive.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Personal_identity_number_(Swed...
Then 2FA through BankID, with a chain of trust started with the KYC of your bank. No SMS, "state something only you know" or similarly awful methods.
Re: Alleged full dump of Russian military personnel, including IDs and SSNs
#23A few years back China obtained equivalent data on US service members from an OPM breach.
Not just service members. It was most people who had ever held a security clearance, civilian and military.
Only ones not included were agencies that did not use OPM for background investigations (which was only one or two).
Even then, many of the employees of those agencies previously worked for the ones who used OPM’s systems.
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#24This seems to be a positive example of doxing.
Erm ... no? Principles exist on both sides of the coin.
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#25Will someone be working through this list and speaking to each family to try to encourage them to get their son/father/brother to defect?
Re: Alleged full dump of Russian military personnel, including IDs and SSNs
#26A few years back China obtained equivalent data on US service members from an OPM breach.
Not just service members. It was most people who had ever held a security clearance, civilian and military. Only ones not included were agencies that did not use OPM for background investigations (which was only one or two). Even then, many of the employees of those agencies previously worked for the ones who used OPM’s systems.
Yup. For a while I was getting love letters from the OPM every quarter or so.
Re: Alleged full dump of Russian military personnel, including IDs and SSNs
#27Earlier quoted context omitted.
It doesn’t literally say SSNs, but “идентификационные коды” which translates as (and sounds like) “identification codes”.
Are their identification codes used as a shitty master password to their life too? I'd love to get to a system where your tax id was assumed to public knowledge
I think in most countries in Europe the national id number is enough to link taxes to specific people (identity card numbers are to most effects public), even though for official international documents you need to provide the accepted Tax Identification Number (TIN) which you can find in https://www.oecd.org/tax/automatic-exchange/crs-implementati..., but more as a convenience than anything else.
That keeping secret your SSN is a thing is something that mostly affects the US.
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#28Earlier quoted context omitted.
Are their identification codes used as a shitty master password to their life too? I'd love to get to a system where your tax id was assumed to public knowledge
Sweden for example implements the public knowledge side of it, forcing identification to be reliable and 2FA. > The link between a person and the identity number is established through the civil registry and through identity documents and secondarily through the widespread use of the number in various contacts with authorities, businesses etc. They are necessary for personal service at banks, authorities, health care…
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Re: Alleged full dump of Russian military personnel, including IDs and SSNs
#29Earlier quoted context omitted.
Are their identification codes used as a shitty master password to their life too? I'd love to get to a system where your tax id was assumed to public knowledge
Sweden for example implements the public knowledge side of it, forcing identification to be reliable and 2FA. > The link between a person and the identity number is established through the civil registry and through identity documents and secondarily through the widespread use of the number in various contacts with authorities, businesses etc. They are necessary for personal service at banks, authorities, health care…
Useless information about the wrong country
Re: Alleged full dump of Russian military personnel, including IDs and SSNs
#30Will someone be working through this list and speaking to each family to try to encourage them to get their son/father/brother to defect?
you're someone. Go for it