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

• bridgeburner@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Why? It is an easy and secure way to identify yourself, be it for shopping or taxes or other necessary paperwork stuff, or anything else.

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  • TubularTittyFrog@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    because conspiracy theory nonsense and the government is inherently evil, or something.

    apparently ‘freedom’ is living in the backwoods your entire life as an undocumented citizen or something.

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  • matlag@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    In any other country, I would agree. In the US, you’re guaranteed they will privatize the shit out of it until it’s costly, inefficient, unreliable, but someone became a billionaire.

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• UltraGiGaGigantic@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  You’d rather have papers?

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  • NewNewAugustEast@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    I’d rather have nothing. The government shouldn’t care and no one else should either.

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