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Won't any system as valuable as national ID be vulnerable to similar attacks as SSN? The problem seems to be that American ID is extremely valuable; it will su
by nickff 5y ago
Won't any system as valuable as national ID be vulnerable to similar attacks as SSN?
The problem seems to be that American ID is extremely valuable; it will suffer more attacks than almost any other national ID, just because of the sheer amount of money involved.
- only_as_i_fall 5y agoNo, because a much better system could be designed if we planned on using it for id verification from the start. Some easy improvements even keeping a number based system would be: 1) don't assign ID numbers sequentially and based on location of birth 2) have consistent laws about who can collect these and liability for leaks (like hipaa) 3) allow them to be changed in cases of theft But we could actually do much better by using asymmetric cryptography.