Comment on All U.S. Social Security numbers may need to be changed following a massive breach that is already being investigated as a national threat

ToTheGraveMyLove@sh.itjust.works ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

• Sunforged@lemmy.ml ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  They would do it to punish out groups…

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  • ToTheGraveMyLove@sh.itjust.works ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    How would changing social security numbers punish people?

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    • Sunforged@lemmy.ml ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      If you make the barrier to entry high enough that only people with money can get issued new and secure ssn would be one way.

      The more devious thing would to just not allow folks on your “terrorist” list to be allowed new numbers. Now you would have a new way to justify filling your concentration camps.

      To be clear I don’t think currently anything like this is planned, this would just be the most fucked up way fascists could capitalize on their own fuck up.

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• runsmooth@kopitalk.net ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  A cynic in me suggests that this may be a move to push people off the system and disenfranchise them entirely, or the new rationale to create a second class of people who are forced to live with increased digital vulnerability while a new class of numbers can be generated with different privileges.

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