[105151] in Cypherpunks
RE: Quick, Dear -- Beat Me
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Albert P. Franco, II)
Sat Nov 7 03:49:36 1998
Date: Sat, 07 Nov 1998 09:00:29 +0100
To: cypherpunks@algebra.com
From: "Albert P. Franco, II" <apf2@apf2.com>
Reply-To: "Albert P. Franco, II" <apf2@apf2.com>
>From: "Lynne L. Harrison" <<lharrison@dueprocess.com>
>Subject: RE: Quick, Dear -- Beat Me
>At 10:47 AM 11/5/98 -0500, Petro wrote:
>>At 12:08 AM -0500 11/5/98, Blanc wrote:
>>>From Duncan Frissell:
>>>
>>>I just went to the bank I do business with this week to open a new
account.
>>>They wanted my social security number, (which they actually already
have on
>>>record), and during a search on her handy database, the Customer
Assistance
>>>clerk informed me that there was another person in Florida using the
same
>>>number.
Long list of problems which could result from someone using your SSN
snipped...
>All in all, you should seriously reconsider your decision of not
reporting
>the problem.
>
>
So much for the SSN "never" becoming a national ID number!
Since your SS account and pension can be negatively impacted, this tends
to reinforce the idea that your SSN should be a secret. But how can we
keep it a secret if they keep putting it on public documents such as
drivers licenses? Seems to me that when they are all done making the SSN
the <italic>official</italic> National ID number they will need to give
us a NEW SSN that is secret, kind of like a PIN to unlock and validate
our National ID and SS accounts.
...and latter a PIN to protect the PIN...
APF
