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All U.S. Social Security numbers may need to be changed following a massive breach that is already being investigated as a national threat (www.ecoticias.com)
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According to a protected disclosure filed with the Office of Special Counsel, Borges told the Government Accountability Project that DOGE officials working at Social Security created a “live copy” of the country’s Social Security records in a separate cloud environment that sidestepped usual security checks.

The group says those lapses put the Social Security information of more than 300 million Americans at risk.

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[–] chemical_cutthroat@lemmy.world 54 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

Let me guess... just in time for a 2028 election where we all suddenly need our valid SSN?

[–] FauxLiving@lemmy.world 17 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

The Trump administration is building a computer system so that States can 'verify' a person's citizenship prior to allowing them to vote.

This system has failed in many, many ways. That makes me think that they would use the SSN database and other intelligence sources in order to setup the system to fail at a much higher rate for everyone but likely MAGA voters.

[–] P1nkman@lemmy.world 6 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

This is a conspiracy I can get behind!

[–] FauxLiving@lemmy.world 2 points 6 hours ago

This is a conspiracy I can get behind!

Oh yeah this part is 100% my personal inference:

That makes me think that they would use the SSN database and other intelligence sources in order to setup the system to fail at a much higher rate for everyone but likely MAGA voters.

It isn't completely baseless, the DHS has created a tool called Systematic Alien Verification for Entitlements, or SAVE. The push on the right is to make it so that everyone has to prove their citizenship in order to vote. So a system like this SAVE system is what they would want to put in place to make it easy to 'verify citizenship' at polling places.

Having an electronic tool who's underlying system is a complete black box and exclusively controlled by the executive branch which has been shown to incorrectly identify people's citizenship status would allow a group acting in bad faith to surreptitiously introduce 'errors' that affect voters who have been identified (by the domestic spy network that is Google and Co.) as being likely opposition voters.

I'm not saying that this is what IS happening. I'm saying that this system is exactly the kind of system that you would design if you were trying to do what I'm suggesting.

Here's a source about the system, because you shouldn't just trust 'people' on the Internet:

https://www.propublica.org/article/save-voter-citizenship-tool-mistakes-confusion