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Re:The law depends on compute power by gioele on Saturday July 30, 2016 @02:28PM (#12194088)
> Make all SSNs public and therefore useless as a secret key.

An exhaustive list of all US SSNs will be mishandled, intercepted and posted online. It is only a matter of when, rather than if.

(For precedents of whole-country database dumps, see the Turkish, Philippines and Qatar cases.)

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Re:The law depends on compute power by umanwizard on Saturday July 30, 2016 @02:34PM (#12194110)
How do you make the leap from "something has happened in three countries" to "it will inevitably happen everywhere" ?
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Re:The law depends on compute power by Qantourisc on Saturday July 30, 2016 @03:47PM (#12194397)
(chance greater then 0) * (a lot of time)
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Re:The law depends on compute power by jacobush on Saturday July 30, 2016 @05:41PM (#12194798)
Right. Reminds me of how to destroy the earth. Just wait until its atoms decay.
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Re:The law depends on compute power by umanwizard on Saturday July 30, 2016 @07:20PM (#12195058)
This is wrong for a lot of reasons.

The most obvious one is that it assumes the United States social security number system (and the United States itself) will exist for infinite time.

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Re:The law depends on compute power by RexM on Saturday July 30, 2016 @04:12PM (#12194496)
Isn't the point that it is public?

> Make all SSNs public

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Re:The law depends on compute power by gioele on Saturday July 30, 2016 @07:00PM (#12195019)
My (excessively hermetic) message was meant to mean: "All the SSNs will one day be public. Even if the legislator does not make them public, they will leak one day anyway."
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