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Re:Tell HN: Salary data is for sale by drewcoo on Friday January 07, 2022 @04:05AM (#29836823)
Because it was intended as an identifier, not as a secret. The financial industry couldn't tell the difference between the two so now everyone tries to hide their IDs.
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Re:Tell HN: Salary data is for sale by MertsA on Saturday January 08, 2022 @06:48AM (#29850777)
>The financial industry couldn't tell the difference between the two so now everyone tries to hide their IDs.

What's sad and funny is that the login page for "The Work Number" quite literally uses the following for their username field.

<input name="txtUsername" type="password" maxlength="256" id="txtUsername">

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Re:Tell HN: Salary data is for sale by diggernet on Friday January 07, 2022 @03:08PM (#29844051)
It wasn't even intended as an identifier. It's just an account number. "NOT FOR IDENTIFICATION".

https://media.istockphoto.com/photos/social-security-card-pi...

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