It was never meant to be used as such. Its adoption as an identifier is the worst "hack" I've seen. I hate how businesses trust it as sort of some password. It

It was never meant to be used as such. Its adoption as an identifier is the worst "hack" I've seen. I hate how businesses trust it as sort of some password. It's ridiculous how much damage a scammer can do by using your SSN. Like it's a freaking plain text number. At this point it really should not be used for anything at all, and we should just assume that our SSN is public knowledge. I think we have the technology and means to come up with something better.