[105160] in Cypherpunks
RE: Quick, Dear -- Beat Me
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Tim May)
Sat Nov 7 15:40:43 1998
In-Reply-To: <3.0.3.32.19981107090029.008caa20@apf2.com>
Date: Sat, 7 Nov 1998 12:03:10 -0800
To: cypherpunks@Algebra.COM
From: Tim May <tcmay@got.net>
Reply-To: Tim May <tcmay@got.net>
At 12:00 AM -0800 11/7/98, Albert P. Franco, II wrote:
<excerpt>
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...
</excerpt>
Many business entities are now using part or all of the SSN as a
_password_ for my account, or as a phone identifying validation
number.
"And could we have the last four digits of your Social Security Number
please?"
I've tried pointing out to the drones that SSNs are becoming
ubiquitous, the anyone accessing my account besides me would probably
have access to my SSN, and so on. A waste of time, as the drones
neither known nor care.
--Tim May
Y2K: A good chance to reformat America's hard drive and empty the
trash.
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