[Helithumper]

Surprised that personal info such as Kevin’s SSN wasn’t removed prior to release.

[klodolph]

Other people have mentioned this… but it’s been established in policy that the SSN of a deceased person is not PII. There are a ton of different ways to get the SSN of someone who is deceased.

[userbinator]

If anything, having it public could dissuade others from trying to use it.

[dgacmu]

Er, what risk does the release of an SSN pose to someone two years deceased?

[hinkley]

TIL.

Now I’m wondering how many other people in this thread don’t know he died (pancreatic cancer). 59 isn’t that old. And he was expecting a baby at the time, which suggests maybe they didnt think so either.

[joering2]

Steve's Job SSN is 549-94-3295. How can this release harm a dead person?

[jfengel]

Him, probably not. His estate, however, potentially. Perhaps one could get a loan, using his SSN, and his estate gets the bill and subsequent harassment.

SSNs make terrible secrets and it's insane that you could harm a live person by knowing their SSN. I doubt that insanity stops just because you're dead.

[spydum]

Didn't you read Elon's post? SSNs database isn't deduplicated!

[cap11235]

On top of that, he'd be super popular as a target for anything because tons of folks, including non-technical, know the name "Mitnick" very well.

[dylan604]

But they clearly left the year visible so blocking out the AUSA's name seems dumb too as it wouldn't be hard to look up who were the AUSAs to narrow down who was named in the file.

The entire redacting seems just so superficial