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To be fair many SS cards were printed stating right on them they aren't for ID usage.
by AngryData 18d ago
To be fair many SS cards were printed stating right on them they aren't for ID usage.
- simoncion 18d agoYep. Social Security numbers are not guaranteed to be unique, and for a very long time, were pretty easy to figure out if you knew roughly when a person was born and where. "I know! We'll use this number that its issuing agency says is most definitely not to be used for identification purposes for identification purposes!" is real PHB thinking.
- Terr_ 18d agoRight, I don't blame the SS administration, they knew what people shouldn't do and warned everyone about it... the problem was private companies were desperate for security-theater and were never punished as they built an entire grand opera-house of insecurity.
- mahboi 16d agoWhat should the companies have used instead? Even the government identifies you by SSN, eg taxes or voter registration. They combine that with state ID often, but the only national ID is passport which not everyone has.