I think the subject line is off. Everyone not under a rock knows what America is. I think it should read: “…American’s…”.
Bad. Sad. At least they doxxed Aram, so that when society is sold to AI and goes down in flames in a chaotic civil war for no particularly good reason, during that war Aram will inevitably be caught in the crossfire for which he stated on government record that he accepts full responsibility.
I did not know AI could fail to create proper sentences.
It must be really hard to be making phones for the governments with all this focus on privacy and security while knowing that they were all compromised by Jeff Epstein and the Space Aliens, so none of it matters, to the point that it’s literally fine and not a moral concern to sit at Purism writing about how the company is great and does privacy right while the society around you collapses due to its lack of privacy, and due to the power of the government leading it to that end who is propped up by government employees buying secure Purism phones on contract.
And then you have to wonder if the article is written by AI. And then you have to wonder if the comments and replies to the article were written by AI. And then you have to wonder if you’re an AI, or if you’re that rare, occasional human among those who read the post.
Get back into the matrix, @Dlonk. 
I understand the point you are making but I think it is possible to interpret it correctly as it is e.g. quoting from the article
It was a live copy of the Numerical Identification System (NUMIDENT) master identity file of the United States.
So, yes, the individual identities within that file are those of Americans but the file as a whole is a collective reflection of everyone in the country i.e. collectively America.
In my opinion, the bigger problem is not that someone took a copy of the file but that the file exists in the first place. As they say, collect it and the breach will come.
as far as I have read alot on what dodg has done they have no personal data of identifacation. more to worry about medical data mega houseing. at least once a week i get a warning about another medical data has been hacked into. i have lifelok so even if my data is out there I have million dollar protection and get warring if someone try to open a bank account, buy a house or any of my personal info is beening used its quick i get no or yes on my Iphone from lifelok i just hit no then they contact any bank and stops it immediately. within 5 minutes.
Am I paranoid for that to me that sounds like a scam? I briefly worked for the US federal government as a software developer intern while in college. I have billion dollar government spending deficit protection of my data. They sent me a letter in the mail more than a decade ago that it was all stolen. Fingerprints, SSN, everything, because the whole government’s payroll and HR was compromised. The person who leaked it all didn’t even face charges.
You have million dollar protection? Is that maybe like a paper thin wall you’re hoping will defend you against an atomic bomb - the billion dollar fraud industry?
I was on a call on one of my jobs where we had the (probably) millionaire CEO and the whole company on the group call and the CISO said, “I can buy the data of anyone in this call for $1200, including the amount of money in all your bank accounts and the passwords and everything.”
To prove him wrong, I asked an internet friend I used to play video games with who lives on a small island off the coast of a third world country in his parents basement and cant hold a job because he just wants to play video games and I told him to tell me my net worth. I gave him no additional information other than whatever he already had from playing a video game with me for a few years.
He sent me back a fairly accurate rough approximation of my net worth.
The guy lives on the other side of the planet.
Many of us are not unique. You can extrapolate out personal debts, and our personal assets, and many other things just from a few conversations. Slap on top of that surveillance capitalism….. it’s really, really bad.
Possibly it’s this company: LifeLock - Wikipedia
Assuming that this is some kind of insurance, there’s nothing wrong with such an idea provided that
- The company has deep enough pockets to pay out in the event of a claim and in particular in the event of a massive data breach where there could be a large number of claims in a short space of time.
- The fine print doesn’t contain so many exclusions and exemptions that in practice no valid claim can be made.
- The insured amount at least mostly covers the size of the loss in the claim.
However insurance in no way prevents the insured event. It just makes it less painful after the fact.
Cynics have even suggested that insurance increases the chance of the insured event occurring because the holding of insurance may encourage greater risk-taking. 
Dictatorship EEUU too… dear Tracy!
Maybe they use cheap AI.. 
Seriously, I hope LibremOS will rise Librem 5 sell so Purism will have more money to hire, among other things, a proper public relation /communication human 
I stand corrected then.
(I was also going to joke about North vs. South America but I guess that’s off the table too.)
I’ve heard of this company for years, they advertise on U.S. talk radio stations. If I had a million or more, I’d subscribe too. (Or a competitor.)
go to there site and read all the protection a including lawyers, court cost if someone bought a house in your name you seem to know it all . If I need serious help Ill call my Brother he ownes his own security company does business with one business owner the USA government. was a Commander of his AGIS war ship and retired early got into his own business next year he will leave all working for the rest of his life buy another house in Washington with water rights so he can moire his boat and motor between Bahamas and Washington DC if he and his wife care to. he is into cyber security and personal security..
I definitely don’t know it all. But, the US federal government’s executive branch themselves leaked my SSN and fingerprints a dozen years ago. So if someone uses that information to buy a house in my name, what we’re dealing with is the government itself building a society where they are putting houses in my name that are not.
According to the US declaration of independence, if your government is abusive to your rights then buy guns and get a new one. Since that doesn’t work anymore because of nuclear weapons, maybe instead the secret is to be be poor and dangerous. If someone buys a house in your name, then maybe just go find them, shoot them dead, and then wait for the police to come visit the house in your name and when they get to “your house” and find you sitting there, just say you were defending your property. There’s maybe half the states that have “stand your ground” laws where you can shoot people on your own property.
Should that be how government works? No, maybe nobody should do any of that. But you wouldn’t be the one who started it in that situation – the government did, by leaking my SSN. So I guess it’s their problem to sort out.
yeah i read about that several yrs ago i heard it came from IRS leaked millions of information of American people. most likely paid for by China.
Yea. Want my SSN? Easy. It’s all over the internet. 8 6 7 5 3 0 9
i know I too am all over the dark web…i get notified all the time …I WANT TO BE A BLANK NOW DAYS
Are you saying we “can call you any old time”?
No wait, I’m conflating that with you old BEachwood exchange number ending in 4-5789.
Or should we call PEnnsylvania 6-5000?
Yes. It should be noted that originally they were advertising that they could prevent the insured event. The CEO publicly released his own SSN to prove the point. The result:
- He has had his identity stolen at least a dozen times. This includes several “pay day” loans, etc.
- LifeLock settled with the FTC for $12M for deceptive advertising.
I haven’t paid attention to them lately. But I don’t trust insurance companies to actually cover what they imply they cover. My wife, who worked early in her career as a lawyer for an insurance company assures me that this is true and that it is possible that there is no greater evil.