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Stuff They Don't Want You To Know

Listener Mail: The Social Security Hack, Mount Weather, the AI Basilisk and Letters From Home

Stuff They Don't Want You To Know

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Society & Culture

4.211K Ratings

🗓️ 5 September 2024

⏱️ 65 minutes

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Summary

What happens when so many social security numbers get exposed, all at once? What's happening up at Mount Weather? Could an inorganic, sentient mind reach back through time to ensure its own creation? We promise we'll get to the recent events about Venezuelan gangs and Colorado. For now, thanks for joining the gang in the latest segment of listener mail.

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0:00.0

From UFOs to psychic powers and government conspiracies history is riddled with unexplained events.

0:06.7

You can turn back now or learn the stuff they don't want you to know.

0:11.6

A production of I-Heart Radio.

0:17.0

Hello, welcome back to the show. My name is Matt. My name is Noel. They call me Ben. We're

0:28.7

joined as always with our super producer, all mission control decket. Most importantly you are you you are here that

0:36.2

makes this the stuff they don't want you to know thank you so much for joining us

0:41.1

for our weekly exploration of listener mail up top before we

0:47.4

get into any of this fantastic correspondence. Yeah we want to thank everybody

0:52.1

who took the time to write in about a very worrying

0:57.6

catastrophe that just occurred and is ongoing, the massive leak of personal identifying information here in the United States,

1:07.2

particularly a little thing we'd like to call Social Security numbers.

1:11.6

You know, it's something that we talked about, I think it even came up or we even as a group kind of posited like, well, how big of a deal is it if stuff is getting

1:19.6

leaked if literally everyone's stuff is leaked.

1:23.0

And we talked about off air around this,

1:25.6

a good friend of ours in the show,

1:27.4

Payton Fisher, called it a debt jubilee,

1:31.3

which is apparently a term from the Bible, where's like well if everyone's stuff is out there

1:35.4

then in theory all dead is forgiven don't know if that's how it play out but it is an interesting

1:40.0

thought experiment yeah in this case we're talking about the breach of

1:45.0

national public data right? Yes that occurred allegedly around April of

1:51.0

24, a hacker group called US DoD took this information from this

1:59.0

company that we just mentioned national public data. They're a background check company. At least according to the lawsuit, this was the this was the vulnerable part of the chain and this data was not released as Ransomware. It was released for free on a

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