I'm not sure my worries are assuaged by thr fact that it's been bad before, too.

It should. We went through couple of cycles of "things are bad, inmates are running the asylum" before, and nothing of consequence happened. The world still goes on.

It's not a guarantee this time will be the same - but it should temper the worry somewhat.

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lazide 14 hours ago | parent [-]

Uh, even the database with all the compromising information on everyone with a US security clearance got leaked

Previously no one was dumb enough to put that in one electronic database - it was on paper.

This is going to get orders of magnitude worse.

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TeMPOraL 12 hours ago | parent [-]

I thought security clearances are a dime a dozen, and "all FBI employees" list is full of administrative work and basically 80% mirrored on LinkedIn? (Yes, the remaining 20% - or however much - leaking is a problem.)

	▲	lazide 3 hours ago \| parent [-]
		They are not a dime a dozen [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2015_Office_of_Personnel_Manag...].