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There is an attempt to satirize, to position oneself on a level of higher understanding than those who are concerned by one of the biggest leaks in history. It
by TZubiri 2y ago
There is an attempt to satirize, to position oneself on a level of higher understanding than those who are concerned by one of the biggest leaks in history.
It reminds me of when people used to make fun of covid and cough in each others faces before they knew shit was real.
Of course it isn't a list of ssns, it's a list of ssns attached with names and addresses...
- Spivak 2y agoI guess but there's literally nothing I can do, the data wanted to be free and escaped. Oh well, I'll deal with any fallout as it happens. No sense worrying until the actual bad thing happens, because if it doesn't you worried for nothing. If anything I'm happy SSN databases keep getting leaked. It furthers the case that identity fraud is the bank's problem and verifying identity by SSN is negligent.
- thatguy0900 2y agoI can't see the gov actually ever making identity fraud the banks problem. The best we can hope for is gov identity that's not ssn and we just move on
- sharperguy 2y agomaybe we will finally switch to asymetric key auth
- fuzzer371 2y agoSo what are we supposed to do about it? Everyone has known for years that SSN's aren't secure or supposed to be used in the manner that they are. Many have been screaming from the rooftops about it. I can't do anything about it, you can't do anything about it. So may as well laugh about it.
- fragmede 2y agonot give out your SSN unecessarily. freeze your credit. pay for monitoring service. pay for a service to delete you from other public data sets eg fastpeoplesearch.com. there's not nothing you can do.
- Jerrrrrrry 2y agoDoesnt matter how hard ya beat ya dog. If ya dont feed it, itll come home.
- fuzzer371 2y agoOr I could just do nothing, it's worked so far. When someone inevitably steals my ID, just use the Shaggy Defense, "It wasn't me"
- iddqd 2y agoIt works until it doesn't.
- TZubiri 2y agoDepends on the assets that you have or how public of a figure you are really, being targetted for kidnapping, break n enter, or home robbery is no joke. Especially if you have a family. You need to take the backseat and let the grownups deal with this stuff.
- TZubiri 2y agoI feel the question on what to do is an interesting one, but a thread that satirizes the problem is not an appropriate venue to resolve that question. People have warned that ssns arent "secure or supposed to be used in the manner that they are" . What does that even mean, there's been a huge leak, ignore your previous quarrels and respond to the specific incident, nobody cares what people were saying about ssns before, wait for information and respond accordingly.