I have stored every americans ssn in a text file, you can too!

seq -w 0 999999999 | sed -E 's/^([0-9]{3})([0-9]{2})([0-9]{4})$/\1 \2 \3/' | awk '{ area=$1+0; group=$2; serial=$3 if (area==0 || area==666 || area>=900) next if (group=="00" || serial=="0000") next printf "%03d-%02s-%04s\n", area, group, serial }'

What is the point of this kind of reply? To try to diminish the impression of the severity? To distract? To just make reading the contents slightly worse for everyone?

It's so clearly not the point of the db in the article that there is no chance anyone reads this and thinks it is the same thing the article is referencing. Is this just really low quality trolling?

I'm sure they are talking about a database that only contains the numbers and no other identifying information directly linked to those numbers.