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nxzero on July 24, 2016 | parent | context | favorite | on: How banks are refusing to shoulder responsibility ...

The SSNs aren't even secret, it's trivial to get someone's SSN using public information:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10394881

kalleboo on July 24, 2016 [–]

Yeah it's insane, hence the scare quotes around secret.

All the ideologic resistance against a properly designed and handled ID number means that a number that was never meant to be used for ID is used instead. Madness.

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