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Will that actually stop him at this point?

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[–] nightwatch_admin@feddit.nl 88 points 1 month ago (2 children)

But the data is siphoned off now. We can, nay, have to assume this.

[–] Quill7513@slrpnk.net 40 points 1 month ago (4 children)

yup. the real answer is to rotate EVERYTHING

[–] TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world 34 points 1 month ago (4 children)

Ahh yes. Lets just rotate every americans social security number and every organizations tax-payer id.

[–] akilou@sh.itjust.works 35 points 1 month ago (3 children)
[–] Whats_your_reasoning@lemmy.world 13 points 1 month ago

Ah, I see someone has been to Hilbert's Grand Hotel.

[–] toynbee@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago

ROT13 all the things!

[–] Quill7513@slrpnk.net 25 points 1 month ago (1 children)

you joke but that may be the only way

[–] NuXCOM_90Percent@lemmy.zip 23 points 1 month ago (1 children)

That data is largely worthless. Mostly because so much of it has leaked so many times over the past decade or two. That is why so many people have a special tax code or whatever.

The real "value" of having access to the treasury is not the data itself. It is the ability to change that data in a manner that directly defies congress, the budget, and everything else.

[–] confusedbytheBasics@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago

It pretty valuable even if you don't change it. He can see what his competitors are being paid. He can correlate it with Twitter's user data to tie political enemies to physical addresses and more.

Not that they won't corrupt it. They will almost certainly alter it to their own ends as well.

[–] Kecessa@sh.itjust.works 12 points 1 month ago (1 children)

The US could finally become a modern country with actual national ID!

[–] PancakesCantKillMe@lemmy.world 12 points 1 month ago (1 children)

If it comes to pass, it'll probably in the form of an arm tattoo...

[–] Quill7513@slrpnk.net 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

nah. Only for people like me.

You know. Queer. Jewish descent. Leftist in ideology.

I wish these jokes didn't write themselves...

[–] P00ptart@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Not just you. Anyone that posted anything against them.

[–] Quill7513@slrpnk.net 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Yup. Yup yup yup yup yup yup yup yup yup yup yup yup yup yup yup yup yup. America is goinnnnnnnnnnnnnnn' great.

[–] P00ptart@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

That's not the goal. The goal is to end it all.

[–] Quill7513@slrpnk.net 2 points 1 month ago

I know that's not the goal. I know the goal is to fuckin' kill us caring folk

[–] HK65@sopuli.xyz 3 points 1 month ago

Just rotate the bank account numbers, everyone gets someone else's.

[–] nightwatch_admin@feddit.nl 12 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Worse: you don’t know which administrators have been compromised or were voluntarily complicit. It is unprecedented.

[–] Quill7513@slrpnk.net 4 points 1 month ago

yup. we're going to have to rotate the administrators, too

[–] SkyezOpen@lemmy.world 6 points 4 weeks ago

I rotated my monitor and I don't feel any more secure and my neck hurts.

[–] frog_brawler@lemmy.world 2 points 4 weeks ago

Yes, but not under this administration.

[–] hypna@lemmy.world 16 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Yeah leaked data stays leaked. You can often find out what was leaked tho.

[–] nightwatch_admin@feddit.nl 1 points 1 month ago

By running into it on ze dark veb?