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> Make all SSNs public and therefore useless as a secret key. An exhaustive list of all US SSNs will be mishandled, intercepted and posted online. It is only a
by gioele 10y ago
> Make all SSNs public and therefore useless as a secret key.
An exhaustive list of all US SSNs will be mishandled, intercepted and posted online. It is only a matter of when, rather than if.
(For precedents of whole-country database dumps, see the Turkish, Philippines and Qatar cases.)
- umanwizard 10y agoHow do you make the leap from "something has happened in three countries" to "it will inevitably happen everywhere" ?
- Qantourisc 10y ago(chance greater then 0) * (a lot of time)
- jacobush 10y agoRight. Reminds me of how to destroy the earth. Just wait until its atoms decay.
- umanwizard 10y agoThis is wrong for a lot of reasons. The most obvious one is that it assumes the United States social security number system (and the United States itself) will exist for infinite time.
- RexM 10y agoIsn't the point that it is public? > Make all SSNs public
- gioele 10y agoMy (excessively hermetic) message was meant to mean: "All the SSNs will one day be public. Even if the legislator does not make them public, they will leak one day anyway."