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Re:Claimed AT&T hack of 70M customer records including SSN, ... by sillysaurusx on Friday August 20, 2021 @02:24PM (#28249591)
What do you do when you lose your private key?

Who issues the private key? "get" implies it comes from somewhere, i.e. a CA system.

If the government is the CA system, and your private key is your identity, how do you establish your identity in the event that you lost your key?

The nice thing about SSNs being immutable is that none of these are concerns. (It's also the bad thing about SSNs being immutable.)

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Re:Claimed AT&T hack of 70M customer records including SSN, ... by azinman2 on Friday August 20, 2021 @02:34PM (#28249710)
That and I can memorize my SSN.

We do have one thing in the US that’s physical proof, and that’s your birth certificate. But I’m sure people lose them and they can be pretty easily fabricated.

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