Senators push to ditch social security numbers in light of Equifax hack

Re:Senators push to ditch social security numbers in light o... by dec0dedab0de on Wednesday November 08, 2017 @10:06PM (#15659487)

SSN are NOT an identity mechanism or infrastructure to facilitate business.

> SSN are NOT an identity mechanism

You purposely misquoted them to make your point. That's pretty lame.

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Re:Senators push to ditch social security numbers in light o... by Dylan16807 on Thursday November 09, 2017 @12:29AM (#15660115)

It's a misquote if you parse the original statement as "NOT an ((identity mechanism or infrastructure) to facilitate business)" That would be removing important qualifiers.

It's not a misquote if you parse the original statement as "NOT ((an identity mechanism) or (infrastructure to facilitate business))". It's perfectly fine to simplify "Not A or B" into "Not A" when your argument is "Yes A".

In the context of godzilla82's wording, I think the latter interpretation is more likely, making it not a misquote. Even if that's mistaken, I doubt it was an intentional misquote.

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