Your first paragraph misses the diagnosis a little bit your prescription is correct. The problem isn’t specific to SSNs. Most authentication of users in the pu

Your first paragraph misses the diagnosis a little bit your prescription is correct. The problem isn’t specific to SSNs. Most authentication of users in the public sector in the USA is done by knowledge of facts, whereas it should require proof of government ID card (preferably with digital certificate, not just knowledge of the ID number)