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Shapiro’s previously unreported disclosure, dated Friday, came as part of a list of “corrections” to testimony by top SSA officials during last year’s legal battles over DOGE’s access to Social Security data. They revealed that DOGE team members shared data on unapproved “third-party” servers and may have accessed private information that had been ruled off-limits by a court at the time

Wow… Such shock… Much surprise.

Yeah, they basically were sending XSLs,CSVs of everyone’s shit over non secure channels like Cloudflare shares, that had unknown people in it who didn’t work for the Government.

Because they’re all fucking amateur idiots who think they know what the fuck they’re doing and they don’t. So shit like “Hey brah, pass me that sheet you were working on. NP, posted the link in the Molon labe Discord channel, hey you should check the meme BindensProstate6969 posted LOLOL.”

I mean why did anyone think anything different was ever going to come of this? And now a bunch of private citizen unknowns who are a loose collective fringe group and believe crazy shit has everyone’s details.

Mom, I want an aim bot!

But we have aim bots at home.

The aim bots at home.

That’s super underselling it. Open Financial Exchange OFX is still the go-to for markets and banks to exchange information with various end user devices. ISO 20022 is a standard used in banking that is XML based. Fedwire, the platform that moves money between the central banks completed transition to XML in July… of this year.

Credit reporting agencies, insurance agencies, hospitals, medicare, medicaid, massive amounts of the entire global logistics industry are heavily using XML with no plans in the near future to move off of it. Like the network that handles auto insurance claims and reporting them to people like LexisNexus is all XML.

Like it’s impossible to cover just how much of this planet runs on XML.