Freddy Mercury? He's still dead I presume?

There should be some "friction" in accessing records more than a year or two old.

Whether that friction involves putting the older data in "nearline" storage requiring a robot to mount a disk or tape to access it, or whether it stays online but there's only a "skinny pipe" between it an the internet, an adversary shouldn't be able to transfer the entire database in less than a few weeks, more than long enough for tripwires to activate and a human to investigate.

Ostrogoths or Visigoths?

Show your cards. Show the world the source code and related information needed so independent experts can tell the lay public what is really going on.

Yes, you may have to reveal trade secrets, but that is the price you have to pay when your product looks like it is up to no good.

I Did It Just The Same - 1984 (For The Love Of Big Brother)

Shoulda gone full Sailbarge.

...and since then, the jobs report has been notorious for having corrections weeks later that few notice. I won't even say grain of salt. There's little about this that will hold up.

Many jobs in hospitality were for the World Cup, and they were all temporary, part time, barely above minimum wage, and now done.

My bad, was a police car with flashing lights and a police officer on top of the dorm.

The yellow VW Bug hack I remember was a bunch of us in 7th grade picking up and moving the principal's bug from his parking spot to the middle of the courtyard in our school. No planning on that one, just started with guys talking about how they bet they could pick up one end of the car by themselves and then we all rushed the car and lifted it up. 1970s was weird.

The original use of 'hackers' was for the MIT students who pulled off elaborate practical jokes or 'hacks'.

The one where a school principal's yellow VW Bug was found one morning on top of the main dome at MIT is a good example of such a hack. Turns out they'd made an elaborate model of the car up there and installed it overnight.

Someone get Jason on the line.

re: "The Internet is a worldwide network of university, government, business, and private computer systems, run by a 13-year-old named Jason."

I thought they were all independent contractors!!!

Assume there's a legitimate company out there that will verify driver's licenses. Do they really need to store everything "online"? No, they do not.

They can store it "offline" with a 1- or 2- minute delay to access the data, caching it in "online" systems for maybe 15 minutes.

This, plus alarms when large amounts of data is being moved from "offline" to "online" in a short period of time, would've either made this leak slower than it was or, more likely, led to this year-long leak being discovered and plugged long ago.

Is this inconvenient? Sure, but it's not a practical impediment for "batch jobs" like employment identity verification.

For "real time" things like renting a car, the vendors will have to begin the verification process, do things to "kill time" like review the auto-rental contract or go with the sales clerk to inspect the car, then tell the customer "you are good to go" or "we need more information to verify your identity."

For situations like a bank where you can't "fill the time," the bank can set up a highly-secure on-premises id-verification computer that can act as a long-term cache. Everyone whose ID isn't locally cached will need to "step aside" for a minute while their ID is verified. Or better yet, they can start the ID-verification process before getting to the front of the line.

Man, fuck all these cameras.