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Re:It's Still Easy for Anyone to Become You at Experian by michpoch on Sunday November 12, 2023 @11:59AM (#38241920)
Well that's another thing, I don't see why would you need to get rid of SSNs. You just need to add another layer that will confirm that you're the "owner" of your SSN. Seems pretty easy to do?
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Re:It's Still Easy for Anyone to Become You at Experian by BytesAndGears on Sunday November 12, 2023 @04:47PM (#38244414)
Agreed, except that nobody has done it. So SSN is your username and password anyways, despite everyone* knowing they’re all public knowledge at this point

*: except judges and juries, apparently

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Re:It's Still Easy for Anyone to Become You at Experian by emodendroket on Sunday November 12, 2023 @10:35PM (#38246590)
I didn’t propose getting rid of the SSN without replacing it with an actual, secure national ID. If that involves legacy SSNs still somehow whatever.
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