Now would be a really good time to tie our SSN to a picture ID and make it a national ID. Why we use it as our ultimate form of identification with literally zero safeguards, is incredible to me.
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In the end was it Elon who sold it to Russians or Trump?
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I’ve been wondering for a long time if we could just get new social security numbers anyway. Now this.
At the very least be sparse and difficult to guess.
Our current SSNs were never meant to be used as identification, so they made them easy to create and easy to guess.
How about you don't and also everyone's grandparents gets scammed for every cent sending them into homelessness?
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Republicans: this is exactly what we voted for! 🖕😤
Hackers:
Great, America was already fucked...Without a competent leader in office to handle a disaster of this scale, we'll be worse off. Social Security Numbers were always a bad idea to keep around for the long term, and worse to be used by businesses to validate the identity of a customer/employee. A photo ID should've been solely used to identify one's self. It's going to be a rough generation for everyone. 😬
Behind the password "SuperHacker123"
I think you mean "Maga2020"? Same as last time.
************** is not a secure password
Hunter2 seems like a great password.
Password? Oh, password. Yes, very secure password...