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Re:Inside the "3 billion people" national public data breach by CivBase on Wednesday August 14, 2024 @05:28PM (#41250695)
"Identity theft" is just fraud, rephrased to make us the victims instead of the defrauded companies.

That's why SSNs are still such a big deal. Why fix the problem when you can just make it someone else's problem?

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Re:Inside the "3 billion people" national public data breach by krackers on Wednesday August 14, 2024 @05:46PM (#41250836)
As brilliantly satirized by the mitchell & web sketch https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CS9ptA3Ya9E
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