• KamikazeRusher@lemm.ee
      44·
      1 month ago

      Nah. It’s worked for 50 years and if we get another 30 then it’s done its job well. Government is supposed to review and adjust things as time goes on and Social Security Numbers weren’t intended to uniquely identify citizens. They probably expected an overhaul to be done by 2020.

      They fact that we haven’t reworked portions of it and rely on SSNs to identify citizens shows that we haven’t had a forward-thinking Congress in the last 20 years at minimum.

      • Evotech@lemmy.world
        15·
        1 month ago

        Well, it’s an identifier, your problem if that you have been using it as some kind of access key

      • Croquette@sh.itjust.works
        102·
        1 month ago

        You can guess a phone number as well by changing the last number, but that information has 0 value unless it is coupled with other informations.

          • Croquette@sh.itjust.works
            4·
            1 month ago

            I am not sure if you are agreeing with me or not, but DOB and location where you were born are additional informations as I mentioned in my replie before.

              • Croquette@sh.itjust.works
                1·
                1 month ago

                Oh I totally agree with that. It’s dumb that there is so many systems that use SSNs as an identification.

                My identity infos have been leaked with the Desjardins leaks, so my SSN is forever known and all the critical services that uses SSNs are now more vulnerable.

    • KillingTimeItself@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      5·
      1 month ago

      well tbf, the standard coming from computing is doubling the bits until it stops being a problem, or with ipv6 practically having more IPs than there are atoms in the entire planet of earth (i think i did the calculation a while ago, and it was like, most of the atoms in earth, so like, not quite, but for all intents and purposes, might as well be)