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06

Jan

The Gong Show: Social Security and Identity

thegongshow:

Social security numbers are broken.

Why is my underfunded public retirement account number also my badly designed national ID number? The only security protection for SSNs is “keep it a secret,” yet average consumers are expected to disclose SSNs in nearly any transaction larger than the cost of…

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  3. langer said: Yes! Fareed at Conduit/Zynga says exactly this all the time and I think it’s genius.
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