Re:Equifax Faces Multibillion-Dollar Lawsuit Over Hack
by raisedbyninjas on Friday September 08, 2017 @03:26PM
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You're absolutely correct. We should move to a well designed identity system. However I'd SWAG the development and deployment of such a system around 10-15 years if all of the involved parties were on-board. Equifax could provide the SSA a pile of money and the victims could have a reasonably effective defense against identity theft within months.
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Re:Equifax Faces Multibillion-Dollar Lawsuit Over Hack
by LoSboccacc on Saturday September 09, 2017 @04:58AM
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wouldn't it be simpler to make ssn number last only five years? it's a partial workaround, but would immediately help by reducing the attack opportunity time massively, along with making it standard to have variable ssn thorough the system and making it easier for people to just renew their after breaches like this, since the current bar for obtaining a new one is quite high