Suddenly fading out of existence

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• setsneedtofeed@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  "Here’s your soggy cardboard square, you’ll need it in 65 years."

  • statements dreamed up by the utterly deranged

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  • dingus@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I thought I read somewhere that your social security card wasn’t initially at all meant for proof of identity and shit that we use it for today, which is why it’s made of fragile paper. But I didn’t actually look that up to verify so idk.

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    • setsneedtofeed@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

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      It used to say that right on the card.

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    • cAUzapNEAGLb@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      It stems from a conflict of need and want from what I understand.

      The need for a national id and the refusal of the citizens for a national id. There was a lot of controversy about the SSN because it could be used as an id and the people didn’t want that being so privacy conscious, so they made the numbering system simple and that card fragile to show and dissuade that it isn’t a good id to get the SS passed.

      But of course, there’s still a want/need for some kind of unified id across the nation - so it was used anyway

      And thus we have a terrible id system: flimsy, deterministic, and mostly-unchangable

      If you know the social security number of someone born in your hospital in the same day, it’s likely your ssn’s are right next to each other and could be guessed

      At this point, I don’t think there would be much resistance to a national id, and it would be great for an update that is both securely random, and changeable so that leaking your SSN isn’t such a crazy risk, having it in a laminated card with a chip and electronic signature even better.

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    • Skullgrid@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Here cgp grey with more

      youtu.be/Erp8IAUouus?si=gna5uw8NrArBTsxM

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  • BleatingZombie@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    They’re made of that material so the card is destroyed if you leave it somewhere. It’s an intentional design choice

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• Donjuanme@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  They say while very carefully hiding the important details contained on that card.

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• SirDerpy@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Fast forward to August. The IRS wants to know why you didn’t pay taxes.

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