Whistleblower says DOGE officials copied Social Security numbers
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#2Discussion (123 points, 16 hours ago, 54 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45026372
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#3Perhaps it is time that the US stops relying on SSNs being “secret”…
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#5My deep suspicion, given some of the players involved in DOGE, is that most of this information is being exfiltrated for the purposes of training AI models. They'll likely be used for social and political manipulation of groups and possibly even individuals. There's a big market for "pre-crime" solutions which will also rely heavily on this type of data and are already being deployed by various state-level law enforcement agencies.
The coming of the "digital caste" society powered by "social credit" scores seems to be the end game. This is a battle of the rich and powerful against the average citizen and they want to reduce all of us back into fiefdom. We can no longer trust a large federal or even state government with these tools.
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In order to make a government “small enough to down in a bathtub” you need to convince the general public that it is corrupt and incompetent, which has been the GOP play all along.
If your core argument about why you should govern is that government is the problem, is it any surprise that you sabotage any attempt at good governance?
Effective government is an existential risk for the GOP.
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#7Perhaps it is time that the US stops relying on SSNs being “secret”…
ED25519 keys being short and quick to generate makes this state of affairs infuriating whenever it turns up - SSNs, credit card numbers etc.
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In order to make a government “small enough to down in a bathtub” you need to convince the general public that it is corrupt and incompetent, which has been the GOP play all along. If your core argument about why you should govern is that government is the problem, is it any surprise that you sabotage any attempt at good governance? Effective government is an existential risk for the GOP.
Hard to make a lot of money when the government provides good services for free.
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#9Earlier quoted context omitted.
In order to make a government “small enough to down in a bathtub” you need to convince the general public that it is corrupt and incompetent, which has been the GOP play all along. If your core argument about why you should govern is that government is the problem, is it any surprise that you sabotage any attempt at good governance? Effective government is an existential risk for the GOP.
Hard to make a lot of money when the government provides good services for free.
Hard to have effectively indentured servitude if there’s a social safety net.
Remember even Hayek advocated for universal, government funded healthcare! Ayn Rand was on social security!
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#10Copied from one secure S3 bucket to another secure S3 bucket, both inaccessible from the internet, both on SSA infrastructure.
What exactly is the problem?