A whistleblower warns a mishandled cloud copy of Social Security data could put millions at lifelong risk and force SSNs to change.

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.

  • FauxLiving@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    1 day ago

    It seems to me that these are not real problem, other countries solved them dozens of years ago, it is just that you people (assuming you are from US) don’t want to solve them.

    I’m aware of the problems and I donate a large portion of my time towards working to fix these issues which were put into place long before I was born. These systems exist as they do for a lot of reasons, many of which are bad. Fixing them will take time and political willpower which, prior to ID being weaponized as a means of cutting off voters, did not exist in the US.

    It isn’t as simple as printing out a QR code or loading personal documents onto an ISO 14443-compliant smartcard. It will require infrastructure, staffing and public education. This isn’t something that can be done by election day (in November '26).

    They would be a problem for the exact same reasons if they were proposed by Biden. But I still belive that a selection of who can vote done as you suggest is impraticable, you have no way of knowing who vote what before. A massive refusal to allow a certain population to vote would be noted in the end.

    It’s bad idea no matter who is in charge. All of our voting systems are open to observers and there are multiple observers at all critical points of voting.

    Circumventing all of those checks by having a single system who can simply deny a person the ability to vote with no recourse is a bad idea, it would have been a bad idea under Biden and it is a bad idea now.

    A massive refusal to allow a certain population to vote would be noted in the end.

    It doesn’t need to be massive to affect outcomes. A few thousand votes can swing close elections.

    Even if someone notices something strange. Do you imagine that Donald Trump would allow for the Department of Homeland Security to investigate the Department of Homeland Security’s handling of claimed election interference? Would the newly elected Republican Congress vote to impeach him if he didn’t?

    If someone notices vote interference, should they call Donald Trump’s FBI, Donald Trump’s DHS or Donald Trump’s CIA? How do you imagine that conversation would go once it made it to the attention of Pattel, Noem or Gabbard?