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Comment on All U.S. Social Security numbers may need to be changed following a massive breach that is already being investigated as a national threat

rumba@lemmy.zip ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

0 chance they hand out new SSID, that’s money and work and confusion, imagine every medical entity changing over that code?

First, the govt would need to make a lookup table.

Anyone that used their old ssid for something, or a system that had the old ssid in it, would need a translation to the new ID.

Sooo at what point could you safely stop accepting old ID’s because they’re all changed over? Never. Some random medical provider in east bumfuck, TN, still uses your SSID from their own paper copy. So you’re stuck accepting old SSIDs and translating them into new SSIDs on demand, which completely breaks any security of changing IDs in the first place.

There have been enough nexus/credit leaks over the years, it’s hardly news that those ID’s are compromised.

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MrMcGasion@lemmy.world ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
Just a minor bit of pedantry, but Social Security Numbers are generally abbreviated as SSN, SSID usually refers to a “Service Set Identifier” aka WiFi network name.

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- XeroxCool@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  You didn’t get your SSN converted to SSID with the microchip Moderna mRNA vax?
  
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prenatal_confusion@feddit.org ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
I think bumfucking is not legal in Tennessee.

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- shai_hulud@lemmy.world ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  It’s Tennessee. You can have a little bumfucking as a treat, as long as it’s your sibling.
  
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  - prenatal_confusion@feddit.org ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    “uncle papa” and all that … as long as your family tree is a circle.
    
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- cmbabul@lemmy.world ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  But fucking over bums is encouraged
  
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  - prenatal_confusion@feddit.org ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    Of course.
    
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technocrit@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
Don’t get so worked about what’s real and what’s not. It’s just the news. \s

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hamsterkill@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
True, but the thing is that the people in power will still complain about increased fraud if and when it happens and point to the government as irresponsible custodians of personal data.

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