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Re:Capital One’s breach was inevitable, because we did nothi... by rocqua on Wednesday July 31, 2019 @11:38AM (#20575293)
Only use it as an identifier, not as a part of authentication. The issues with using an SSN as a identifier (username) are:

1) Explicitly not meant as an identifier

2) Not unique

If not for 2, then the SSN could simply be repurposed to be this identifier.

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