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Alleged full dump of Russian military personnel, including IDs and SSNs

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Re: Alleged full dump of Russian military personnel, including IDs and SSNs

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Post by bladegash »

RyJones wrote: post #26
bladegash wrote: post #23

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

Same - pretty sure I’m still enrolled in whatever credit monitoring they provided for people at the time as well.

Re: Alleged full dump of Russian military personnel, including IDs and SSNs

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Post by remram »

robbedpeter wrote: post #44
remram wrote: post #32

Earlier quoted context omitted.

"Citizen of the USA" is a mouthful. People tend to use "American" but that's ignoring the fact that there are 35 countries in America. A lot of languages have a word like USian, e.g. "états-unien" (French), "estadounidense" (Spanish). I have used "USAmerican" myself when "American" would be ambiguous.

Using America to refer to every country in North and South America is imprecise at best, if not outright disingenuous. Nobody thinks you're talking about Brazilians or Argentines or Canadian when you say "American." That's us. It's our word. You can pry it from our cold dead lips.

Your America-first approach to naming is fine in American circles but don't be surprised when other people use other terminology. No, America is indeed a continent. I have a lot of Brazilian/Peruvian/Canadians colleagues and have been in contexts where we've discussed American (continent) vs European points of views.

I am not sorry if my attempt to use precise language when precision is needed is "disingenuous" to you. What a weird thing to get rude about.

Re: Alleged full dump of Russian military personnel, including IDs and SSNs

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Post by singularity2001 »

MichaelZuo wrote: post #49
rosndo wrote: post #36

Earlier quoted context omitted.

So you genuinely believe that doxing the Russian aggressors is a bad thing? What principle would this go against exactly?

I think the parent was trying to point out that if one side abandons principles the other side will be motivated to retaliate likewise, making the outcome of a treacherous race to the bottom becomes far more likely.

what would be the bottom? complete transparency? I can think of worse things

Re: Alleged full dump of Russian military personnel, including IDs and SSNs

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Post by cosmotic »

ivan_gammel wrote: post #7
800xl wrote: post #2

Why would Russian military personnel have Social Security Numbers?

In Russia everyone has a social security number called SNILS. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/SNILS_(Russia)

So they have a number associated with their social safety net (ie: security), not a Social Security(tm) Number

Re: Alleged full dump of Russian military personnel, including IDs and SSNs

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Post by jpmoral »

vmception wrote: post #48
cjaybo wrote: post #45

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You might want to re-read the thread again. Your comment was uncalled for.

“Are their” meaning possessive, meaning Russian SSN, not “are there ” meaning does any exist somewhere Is there anything specific you want to point out in my reread?

> I'd love to get to a system where your tax id was assumed to public knowledge

Re: Alleged full dump of Russian military personnel, including IDs and SSNs

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Post by rosndo »

MichaelZuo wrote: post #49
rosndo wrote: post #36

Earlier quoted context omitted.

So you genuinely believe that doxing the Russian aggressors is a bad thing? What principle would this go against exactly?

I think the parent was trying to point out that if one side abandons principles the other side will be motivated to retaliate likewise, making the outcome of a treacherous race to the bottom becomes far more likely.

What principles could possibly be abandoned here?

The “principle” of not doxing enemy soldiers? hah.

Re: Alleged full dump of Russian military personnel, including IDs and SSNs

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Post by robbedpeter »

remram wrote: post #52
robbedpeter wrote: post #44

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Using America to refer to every country in North and South America is imprecise at best, if not outright disingenuous. Nobody thinks you're talking about Brazilians or Argentines or Canadian when you say "American." That's us. It's our word. You can pry it from our cold dead lips.

Your America-first approach to naming is fine in American circles but don't be surprised when other people use other terminology. No, America is indeed a continent. I have a lot of Brazilian/Peruvian/Canadians colleagues and have been in contexts where we've discussed American (continent) vs European points of views. I am not sorry if my attempt to use precise language when precision is needed is "disingenuous" to yo…

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Re: Alleged full dump of Russian military personnel, including IDs and SSNs

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Post by cjak »

silisili wrote: post #47
remram wrote: post #32

Earlier quoted context omitted.

"Citizen of the USA" is a mouthful. People tend to use "American" but that's ignoring the fact that there are 35 countries in America. A lot of languages have a word like USian, e.g. "états-unien" (French), "estadounidense" (Spanish). I have used "USAmerican" myself when "American" would be ambiguous.

There's always Yanks, but as a Yank, as a side effect we generally assume the person saying it is British.

Could be Australian. But we also use "Seppo", from a fairly tortured rhyming slang etymology: "Yank" -> "Septic Tank" -> "Seppo".

Re: Alleged full dump of Russian military personnel, including IDs and SSNs

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Post by throwaway6532 »

ivan_gammel wrote: post #7
800xl wrote: post #2

Why would Russian military personnel have Social Security Numbers?

In Russia everyone has a social security number called SNILS. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/SNILS_(Russia)

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