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Twin brothers wipe 96 gov't databases minutes after being fired
(arstechnica.com)
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this post was submitted on 13 May 2026
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And why couldn’t they have done that to the student loans system?
Like JFC, they could have instantly made themselves immune from trial-by-jury anywhere in America by doing that one tiny thing.
Probably not one of the 96(+) databases they had :(
DROP TABLE students
Student loans are loans from third party lenders which are cosigned by the federal government for collateral.
Even if every government record of it were destroyed, the loan servicers would have perfect multiple ledger copies of it all.
Fight Clubs HATE this one simple trick!
Peter Thiel probably has a backup copy now from doge unfortunately.
Oh for something important like that we have backups.
Wasn't that a premise in Mr Robot?
It was kinda the premise of Fight Club, although private sector instead of public