Hi, my name is Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols and I had a security clearance in the 1980s. Because of that, my personal records are likely to have been revealed by the Office of Personnel Management hack.

Big deal, right? What could be so important about my 30-year-old records that it would matter to me today?

Oh, let me think. There’s my Social Security number, my birthday, my birthplace, everywhere I had lived for 10 years before I got my clearance, the full names of all my relatives — you know, everything you’d need to steal my identity.

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