I honestly hope that a major screw-up with SS benefits happens sooner rather than later.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:If you’re a real American and loyal to the President you have nothing to worry about. The bank information is just a tool to punish Democrats and their families if they get out of line.

You mean if you’re part of the MAGA cult, you’ve been brainwashed to think this is all great. You’re not the real American in this discussion, you’re a cult member.

Oh, they're worse than that. Cult members just stick together and commit mass suicide. These people are collaborators who are all too willing to annihilate everyone else in the process.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Why were they in such a hurry to get full access? What is really going on?

Elon musk is on record saying his time with DOGE isn’t worthwhile unless he gets access to US Treasury payment systems. Presumably he can monetize all of our personal data for his interests in creating a Twitter payments platform and open AI stuff

And to allow Trump to weaponize it politically. What Trump is doing to Ukraine is the plan for blue states that don't fall in line. I'm normally pretty level-headed, and I realize this sounds nuts, but I think it's the end game.

Anonymous wrote:I just saw an interview with Martin O’Malley who was the Social Security administrator in the Biden Admin. What he laid out as the consequences of what Elon has done is terrifying. He thinks the end game is to break SS so that Trump can say “see, it doesn’t work so we will have to privatize it.” This will, of course, enrich the finance world. They have already brought in private equity guys who know how to dismantle companies and sell them for parts.

What we need is for Anonymous to hack the data that Elon has made insecure and do something very public, yet benign, to show everyone how Elon has put all of our info in jeopardy.

Anonymous took down X today for some period of time.

Anonymous wrote:I read this as Tracy Flick and was all excited she had made a come back.

Well, she kind of did in the person of Tiffany Flick. Her career seems very Tracy Flick, right up the moment that she was usurped by mediocre white men.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Why were they in such a hurry to get full access? What is really going on?

NP. This was my first thought.

Also, going to a middle man to try to sneak into ob-boarding with the route of least resistance — and not referring to themselves as SSA CIO staff but DOGE staff. Can a federal employee work for more than one agency at a time?

I read her entire statement, and it felt like I was reading about how SSA fell victim to a hostile takeover.

Every single American’s SSN is compromised. This is terrifying and worse than the OPM breach, or the Sony breach - which has taken years to unravel.

There's your better thread title.

Has "DOGE" even produced a solitary document, with identifying info redacted, to prove any of their fraud claims? No.

Anonymous wrote:
Boo Hoo

Eliminating the 60 million more additional social security numbers than actual citizens

As the election fraud gets zeroed in on DOGE needs more security

Man you’re dumb. Are you able to tie your shoelaces?

Anonymous wrote:
Boo Hoo

Eliminating the 60 million more additional social security numbers than actual citizens

As the election fraud gets zeroed in on DOGE needs more security

SSNs are never recycled. And there are always active claims based on the SSNs of deceased people.

Anonymous wrote:So what can we do about it?

The law firms working on at least come of these cases are partnered with organizations you can donate to. If you use the litigation tracker, you can see who the attorney and law firm is, and they may have a donate button which connects to a progressive fundraising organization. Flick's lawyer is from Democracy Forward. You can donate at https://democracyforward.org/

To see the attorney, docket, and other information, you click on the title of the complaint (not the court case number, the actual title) and it will have tabs for all that.

I don't have a lot of money to spare (and am also retired so I do have some time) but I have been sending one time contributions to causes actively involved with fighting the administration-the AP, National Security Counselors (Kelly McClanahan below).

The big media sources--CNN, NBC, MSNBC, etc--seem to be lax as far as providing case information goes. It would be easy for them to link to the litigation tracker, for example, and identify the case they are referring to. I saw several reports that Kelly McClanahan said after the SOTU speech he was using Trump's "Elon is in charge" statement in the case for which he is the plaintiff's counsel, and it took a lot of poking around to figure out which case in the tracker they were talking about.

Why isn’t this front page of every newspaper?

These people are frighteningly ignorant and this is exactly why people undergo significant training to work with operations like Social Security.
I knew someone in college whose father was 75 when she was born. Let's suppose she had been born with severe disabilities and was a dependent and her father died. She could very well be receiving SSA benefits as his surviving dependent 150 years after he was born, and it would be under his SS number.
They also did not understand that more than one person can receive benefits under the SSN of someone who dies or is disabled and has a widow/er and/or dependent children, so they assumed multiple checks going to multiple people under the same account was fraud.

I hadn't thought about the onboarding process at all. Even in mundane jobs with large companies, there can be 1) background and security requirements (e.g. if you are an employee or contractor of an energy company you have to complete FERC training) and 2) active domain management can take longer than you expect, especially if you are supposed to be assigned to domain groups that require specific authorization by specific people). So you have a network person who assigns AD groups who is required to have all those pieces in place before they can go ahead and add you to groups so you can have access to specific software, etc etc.

This seems to me like the plan really was to destroy the government in the first few weeks. Suppose it’s good that they’ve at least hit hurdles

So what can we do about it?

Boo Hoo

Eliminating the 60 million more additional social security numbers than actual citizens

As the election fraud gets zeroed in on DOGE needs more security