A whistleblower at the Social Security Administration is making some, you know, truly terrifying allegations. Now, the whistleblower, Chuck Borges, the TSA's chief data officer, is now claiming that Doge put more than [00:00:16] 300 million Americans identities at risk by using a server that happens to be vulnerable to hacking. If you haven't done a freeze on the credit bureaus, you should do it now. [00:00:33] Okay, so this is a little bit of a tangent, but it's important for me to bring this up. If you guys can remember, there was this big Equifax breach a few years ago. And when there's a breach in your credit report, obviously it has all this important data about you, your Social Security numbers, all of that stuff. [00:00:50] Your identity can be stolen. And so when you put a freeze on the credit bureaus, and you can do it with each individual one and you can lift it at any time as well, it prevents Hackers who have maybe purchased your personal data on the black market from using your data to steal your identity, take out loans [00:01:10] under your identity, and all of that. Okay. Just want to give you that warning now. Borges alleges that the Department of Government Efficiency uploaded a copy of all Social Security numbers and personal information to an unsecured server in June [00:01:27] that only Doge could access, creating enormous vulnerabilities. I mean, theoretically, only Doge could access, but this server is vulnerable to hackers. He claims that a live copy of the entire country's social security information is now being held by a vulnerable [00:01:45] cloud environment that lacks oversight from the agency or the ability to track who is accessing the data. Also, why why does why do members of Doge need to take our personal data and store it on a server that [00:02:01] theoretically only they have access to. That's an important question. No. Important question we should be asking. Now, among those who did have access to all the information was Edward Cornstein. I'm sure you guys can recall who that is. That's the 19 year old Dodge staffer, a software engineer who goes by big balls. [00:02:20] And even though he's this big, impressive software engineer, apparently very careless with, Americans personal information and data, seeing as this data was stored on a vulnerable server. So here's why these accusations are such a big deal and need to be taken seriously. [00:02:38] This whistleblower complaint is just stunning. First off, because of who the whistleblower is, this is not coming from some low level agency employee. This is coming from a decorated U.S. Navy veteran who is currently the chief data officer at the Social Security Administration. [00:02:54] The other thing that's stunning here is just the scope here. The whistleblower is warning that the records of more than 300 million Americans are at risk of being hacked or leaked, and this data includes everything from people's names and birthdates, their parents names, Social Security numbers, citizenship status and their addresses. [00:03:12] Now, the whistleblower Charles Borges warns that should bad actors gain access to this cloud environment, Americans may be susceptible to widespread identity theft. They may lose vital health care and food benefits, and the government may be responsible for reissuing every American a new social [00:03:31] security number at a great cost. Guys, you know, oftentimes people think of the government as an entity that protects the people. But in reality, you have to think of ways to protect yourself from the government at this point. Okay. [00:03:46] So please put a freeze on the three major credit bureaus because your data is out there. Obviously, the government doesn't care about protecting it. A spokesperson said that the data referenced in the complaint is stored [00:04:02] in a long standing environment used by SSA and walled off from the internet. High level career SSA officials have administrative access to this system with oversight by SSA Information Security Team. [00:04:17] We are not aware of any compromise to this environment and remain dedicated to protecting sensitive personal data. I don't I just don't believe them. So be an advocate for yourself. We are in the age of having to protect yourself from the government was what do you think? [00:04:34] I don't see how there's any reason to believe that the people up at DOJ are acting with like, you know, not even just our best interests at heart, but like, they're being diligent and careful about their work up there. [00:04:49] Like there's no evidence to suggest that any of their processes have been that of like these diligent, careful, you know, unscrupulous Workers like, that's just not. There's been no evidence that all the evidence has been in the [00:05:06] opposite direction, that these guys went in and fired a bunch of people and issued like, oh, you guys should quit. And we got three months severance for you. And, you know, we don't know how this is going to affect the rest of the agency. And, oh, we're going to bring some of you guys back afterwards. Like, all they've done is just take a big sledgehammer to stuff with no regard [00:05:26] of sort of unintended consequences. And this is just a obvious, glaring one that anybody with a security background or who who claims to care about the livelihoods of the American people would be able to understand, [00:05:41] like this is this is just obvious. Like, oh, yeah, it's easier to do things on the cloud for us to access it. Although nobody's come out and explain to us why these folks need to access our stuff anyway. But yeah, come out and be like, oh, we're accessing for this, but explain [00:05:57] to us why this is so much better for you and for us to be putting this thing on some unsecured cloud server. Look, these are these are people from the tech world. And what is the most valuable asset for people working in tech? [00:06:15] Data. Okay. This is just our government. The Trump administration is looting us. Okay. Whether it's our data, our resources, it is unbelievable how much they have gotten away with so far. [00:06:30] And Borges says that Doge told him that they pushed for this dangerous project to improve, to improve the way the agency exchanged data with other parts of the government. Okay, so which other parts of the government are they sharing this data with? [00:06:46] Because so far all all we're hearing about is they're storing it in a server that other Doge staffers have access to, meaning other people from the tech world have access to it. Okay. Finally, Aram, who worked at two of Elon [00:07:05] Musk's companies before, becoming Social Security's chief information officer, wrote in a memo on July 15th. I have determined the business need is higher than the security risk associated with this implementation, and I accept all risks [00:07:23] just saying the quiet parts out loud. Great. Aram. Thank you. I just think our government is a joke at this point. I mean, I don't blame anyone for not trusting our institutions [00:07:38] because our institutions aren't really looking out for for us. They're looking out for themselves. They're looting the government of data, of resources. It's just incredible to me how long this has been going on and how it keeps getting worse with every passing administration. [00:07:53] This is the worst that I've seen, obviously. So every time you ring the bell below, an angel gets his wings. Totally not true. But it does keep you updated on our live shows.