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Cake day: June 9th, 2023

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  • Having used the system some time ago, I’m not too worried. It only shows the name and latest address. Basically like the white pages but with a soc.sec.ID instead of the phone number.

    It lacks info on a lot of people, because some people aren’t too good at reporting when they move, and some are hidden for legal reasons.

    The most dangerous thing would be if the data is sold to stalkers, because it does have more addresses than the white pages.

    The soc.sec.no. includes birthday and gender, so it can also be used for targeting scams.

    Anyway, it’s not like this data wasn’t already available in one way or another. The breach just made it easier for whoever did it.










  • True.

    One of the talking points during Brexit was how UK paid more to EU than they received. Seems logical, big country, much economy. Many people voted because of that argument. Turns out to be false.

    A cost benefit analysis shows that UK received up to 6 times more from EU than the cost.

    As a EU citizen, I’d be happy to have them join again, because I believe that the benefits of EU come from cooperation between nations rather than any particular group paying for the other. They can even keep their currency and stupid passport, but they can forget about the previous privileged terms with selective opt-in.