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[–] bacon_pdp@lemmy.world 8 points 1 week ago

Yeah, it only would take a couple GB of data transfer and could have been done in 2 minutes.

There is a reason why social security numbers are not supposed to be used for the very things that they are used for but businesses did it anyway