Count yourself lucky for living in a country where your national ID number isn't assumed to be some kind of non-revokable terrible 9-digit pencil-and-paper OAut

Count yourself lucky for living in a country where your national ID number isn't assumed to be some kind of non-revokable terrible 9-digit pencil-and-paper OAuth token that's shared with half the world. I'm told that Norway's tax IDs are considered no less secret than phone numbers. Coming from the US, I mis-parsed your post as (Social Security number) (equivalent for username) on first read and thought "That's so backwards! They're treating SSNs as less important than passwords". It's probably better to say "national ID number" or "national tax ID" rather than "Social security number equivalent".