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Comment by wodenokoto

4 months ago

Usually you don’t have access to “everything”. It might even be illegal to cross reference certain data, e.g., the same person or department might not even be allowed to have access to two databases.

I don’t know if the cross reference is true for the US, but it is for other countries.

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scarab92  4 months ago

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  • intended  4 months ago

    Course theres something wrong with it. When the frik did Americans, and American techies - get so blasé about personal information security! America fought against the idea of biometric ID cards. People on HN have railed against giving more information to the government forever.

    What the hell? Like this shit didn’t happen back home in INDIA, and that’s a nation which is comfortable with a stronger state.

    It’s NOT OK, and you can very well acknowledge that fact because you can just imagine what eviscerating a legacy code base without a replacement looks like. It looks like the disaster you wish on your worst enemy while you quit the firm and look for a new job.

    This isn’t beyond the project execution and technical ability of most people here to grasp.

    ask yourself how many consecutive miracles would it take for this to go off without a hitch. Then ask yourself if you are that lucky.