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I still can't understand why leaking SSN should do me harms. These are primary key, not crediential. But everybody is treating them as crediential.
by j16sdiz 8y ago
I still can't understand why leaking SSN should do me harms.
These are primary key, not crediential. But everybody is treating them as crediential.
- test6554 8y agoTell me about it. We need a government account that grants access to banks and utilities via oauth or some other cryptographic protocol that allows revocation at will.
- astura 8y agoExcept that's a political nonstarter in the US. The military has a 2FA smartcard authentication system that works really well, so it's not like it's infeasible. A number of of very different groups are very opposed to the very idea: libertarians, (some) Christians, and (many) civil rights activist being the most vocal.
- Yokohiii 8y agoThe reasons for this isn't your privacy. But still it can match you as a person even if your other data is defect or incomplete. A good primary key.