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Re:Inside the "3 billion people" national public data breach by acchow on Wednesday August 14, 2024 @04:19PM (#41250072)
Not only an identifier, many places use it as a secret.
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Re:Inside the "3 billion people" national public data breach by cbsmith on Wednesday August 14, 2024 @05:54PM (#41250904)
Which is dumb.
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Re:Inside the "3 billion people" national public data breach by Aeolun on Wednesday August 14, 2024 @08:41PM (#41252154)
One could argue criminal.

Feel like it’s kinda like my bank using my email as the password or something.

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Re:Inside the "3 billion people" national public data breach by cbsmith on Wednesday August 14, 2024 @08:46PM (#41252178)
You're not wrong.
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Re:Inside the "3 billion people" national public data breach by chii on Thursday August 15, 2024 @02:40AM (#41253614)
Plenty of places also use mother's maiden name as a password/secret too.
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Re:Inside the "3 billion people" national public data breach by beretguy on Thursday August 15, 2024 @06:41AM (#41254579)
DBA at my previous job wanted to use SSN as a primary key. I felt like I’m talking to a child trying to convince him not to do that.
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