• Evotech@lemmy.world
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      Well, it’s an identifier, your problem if that you have been using it as some kind of access key

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      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.

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        You can reverse engineer a good bit of an SSN if you just have someone’s birth date and where they were born.

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          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.

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            24 hours ago

            Oh yeah I agree that just getting a SSN is not a big issue itself but the fact that you can reverse engineer it from known information makes it not a very good security measure to prove identity.

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              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.