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Wouldn't it be entertaining if the SSN leak was just a really clever PR boost for the Trump administration?

I'm certainly entertaining conspiracy theory level ludicrousy, but it is entertaining.

The EquiFax thing would only be good PR for Trump's administration if they used it as an attempt to push through legislation that would prevent these kinds of things from happening in future - like a reasoned and functional (and minimum privilege) national identification service - while Alex Jones-types would normally be up in arms I think they would support it it Trump sold it as the system additionally to make it easy to identify illegal immigrants and members of the "alt-left".

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