Well, i don't put any blame on opm getting hacked in this case. You can only afford the kind of tech support and IT infrastructure that you can. In other words, enough low dollars coming in to provide enough security that a winme deployment can potentially provide. ****, maybe if they weren't under funded for so long to barely stay in operation they'd be better than doing less with less (because everything government related in america really is shifting away from do more with less).
And ****, does a number really matter for those that were hung out to dry by those who took the information and then out to dry a second time with by my government offered nothing more than 18 months of credit monitoring. This recession sucks so much balls, that i'm disappointed that there's no real way to monetize that without getting into trouble very fast and easily!
All current federal workers around the planet, former federal workers (myself), and who knows how many troops if not all of them have no future financial security. In fact, the dynamics of so many of these american's futures, including myself has been nearly turned upside down. That someone posing as me at any moment in time can effectively take everything.
That's ok, it's not just opm that's getting under funded, and it will not be just current and former federal workers (government contractors and troops) who are going to be ****ed later on.
I also hold no disrespect whoever got the data. A lot of people on one hell of an intelligence gathering got promoted and had pay raises. Good for them, i would even like to have a beer with them. I have no ill will for them. Hell, which one of us, if we were hackers wouldn't go after that easy to get gold mine?
I'm pissed about what's being done about this at home. I got a letter in the mail with a code to use my free 18 months of million dollar coverage for identity theft and credit monitoring, and that this letter even states that the letter is not to be taken as meaning that the US government nor opm are liable (**** YOUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU!!!!!!!!!!!!!). The rest of the letter is normal information about how to protect your identity, what practices to undertake for the future and current time, blablabla. I know damn well what and who are liable. And this lack of owning up is transferring the liability to me and so many others.
Essentially...
We're sorry for what we did, we're also not the cause of this problem. You have a bleak future now, here's some crackers, it's all up to you, good luck, go on your way now.
This might be crude, but at least a step in the right direction for fixing a big part of the problem. All people affected getting mandatory new social security numbers. As in, you open up a letter and there's your new social security number whether you like it or not, and then go about updating credentials with banks and so on when you have the time (because reality is much worse without at least this happening).
I can get a new social security number for the reason of identity theft. However, i am used to talking to a lot of stupid numb****s. My understanding and experience with reality is that there's a good chance i will be denied getting a new ****ing number for myself because there's no proof for or against that anyone other than me is using my information (because morons don't understand hardening, security, best practices, and preparing for the worst (they also don't understand doing their jobs)). Most morons will also try to say the situation isn't as bad as it sounds (most ****s who utter this phrase for a response are so wrong).
I mean, mother****er. I have and will continue to take care of myself better than dropping the ball with underfunding such paramount information holders. It is not something you will ever drop the ball on if you're smart and vigilant. But, indeed the people who decided that funding opm the tiniest amount of money for them to barely operate dropped it for me (in this case, it was a bar of soap, not a ball). Then get told you're on your own.
I'm going to go down to a court house and change my first name to ****ed, and last name as dropsoap. The tiny amount of solus for me is that i am slightly less ****ed than those with security clearances (i don't even like saying that, but it's true).
May god be with us all.