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A comment on 900 social insurance numbers stolen from Revenue Canada via Heartbleed. Parent comment
The same way someone might "steal" your password. All data can be encoded as a number.
> the whole idea that your SSN/SIN or credit card number is somehow secret and can be used for authentication is flawed.
I don't disagree, but "how can you steal a number?" isn't a valid argument for your assertion.
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The same way someone might "steal" your password. All data can be encoded as a number.
> the whole idea that your SSN/SIN or credit card number is somehow secret and can be used for authentication is flawed.
I don't disagree, but "how can you steal a number?" isn't a valid argument for your assertion.