Borges alleges that a little-known federal tech team called the Department of Government Efficiency, or DOGE, copied the government’s master Social Security database into a cloud system that lacked normal oversight.
If his account is correct, the mishandling of this information could expose hundreds of millions of people to fraud and abuse for the rest of their lives.
Now if only they could use this opportunity to make the numbers longer and random, perhaps with a pin required to actually use it for social security… And a plastic card would be better than the small paper one we can’t laminate.
Mine was laminated in the 80s and it has caused exactly zero problems since.
…i laminated my first card before they were marked ‘do not laminate’ but none of my subsequent replacements…