Summary
Elon Musk and his “Department of Government Efficiency” (DOGE) have been granted access to the U.S. Treasury’s federal payment system, raising concerns about security and misuse.
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent approved the move after a top Treasury official was ousted for resisting.
Critics warn Musk could freeze payments to government programs or manipulate federal contracts.
The move coincides with DOGE’s takeover of the Office of Personnel Management.
Experts call it a dangerous power grab, as Musk holds no official government position.
To be fair the social security number is not exactly the most secure thing in the world. More than likely there’s a lot of people who have your social security number and you don’t have any clue that they do.
That being said, I don’t understand why he’s being allowed this kind of access. Even with the Orange douchebag’s blessing, there should be other people minding the store. Shouldn’t there?
musk is really asking for the luigi treatment.
Why is Facebook 2auth reset harder, than stealing someones identity in US?
Because the social security number has become the default way to uniquely identify an individual in the US despite the fact that it was never intended for that function.
I get that, I just can’t comprehend, how you can do anything with it. In my country we have similar thing. We have “Birth number” and it is on every contract we sign. But just knowing it does jack shit. (But yeah, we also have identity card, and that changes number every renewal/loss)
More context:
For online sign you would need atleast 2 identifications (for example Identity cars and passport). And usualy thay make you come anyway to prove you’re you.
It is bafeling to me, that some peaple in US have no means of identification.
Thanks to Verizon/TMobile/AT&T being the swiss cheese fort Knox, I’d be surprised if Felon Skum didn’t have it.
Companies have played fast and loose with our PII for so long that it’s at a point where we need something else to act as that value so it’s actually secret. But with this administration, that would end up being a wrist tattoo…
I already have a suspicion that he might already be leaking information out to third parties from Twitter (private messages, etc.), so…
SSN is not a password and anyone who uses it like one doesn’t understand security because you can’t change it. It’s a user ID, like a finger print or email address.
In principle yes; in practice, no.
It’s safe to say he has a lot more than that
Everyone has my social security number. It’s one of the stupidest security fails of all time that nobody seems to want to fix. And now there is an entire “credit protection” industry so it will remain that way.
What happens when we file our taxes? Will we even get our refunds?
Was just worrying about this with my spouse
Would be funny if there was a mass movement and nobody paid their taxes.
I kinda wish this were possible. I’ll pay my state, fuck the feds
Unfortunately, most people have their taxes withheld from their paychecks, and file their returns so they get a refund.
If people didn’t file returns, the IRS would end up with more money.
“May or may not, but mostly may.”
All of my data got breached multiple times going back to the dot-com bubble days, by Yahoo, the original 2015 OPM Beach and by two of the big credit bureaus for a start. If Musk has my social at this point it doesn’t matter.
Not mine.
Bruh who doesn’t at this point?
Elon Musk has to go.
Not mine. I live in a country that isn’t an absolute joke.
Keyword unfortunately being “absolute”
Just wait until dear old Nigel comes.
Starmer might be your Biden, a short but underwhelming break between far right incompetence (BoJo and Nigel).
What’s it like? :(
Must be nice
If it’s the UK, the government probably has assigned you a National Insurance number.
Yes, but apartheid boy has nothing to do with the UK.
He should have nothing to do with the UK, but he’s still sticking his fingers in British pies by petitioning for Tommy Robinson’s release and promoting Reform UK.
Stephen Christopher Yaxley-Lennon (the shite) will stay where he belongs regardless, and Reform will never be anything but a gammon minority party.
I hope it stays that way, but they are already pressuring everyone to move further right. I’m worried that the gammons will vote them in
You can get anyone’s SSN for $15 on the dark web. lol. The amount of leaks/hacks that have happened to all of the companies that require your SSN is insane.
You can get it on the clear web for about $20 completely legitimately. Background checks have been a thing forever and reveal basically everything.
Don’t they usually ask for your SSN before doing the background check? So they already have it?
Lmfao. There ya go. Even better.
I’m sure quite a few people have mine. SSN’s aren’t a secure thing at all. It should be updated.
