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Yeah, and people within earshot are not the issue, it’s the place that has thousands of SSNs getting hacked that the issue, so there is no reason to be secret a

• puglr 5y ago
  To add to this, prior to the internet it really wasn't that bad of a "password". Once upon a time vacuuming up batches of SSNs for nefarious purposes wasn't a realistic attack scenario, let alone a "just assume every criminal has your SSN" one.
  • throaway46546 5y ago
    They were always a terrible password. https://www.usrecordsearch.com/ssn.htm https://www.usrecordsearch.com/ssn.htm
    • rtkwe 5y ago
      It's mostly a terrible password because it's immutable if it weren't it's a quasi random 9 digit code that's hard to map from a person's current information back to what their SSN is.
      • throaway46546 5y ago
        If you know when and where someone was born you can figure out the first 5 digits.