Many SSNs have been compromised already. The jig is up. It was never supposed to be an identity system but organisations keep insisting on using it as one. Even if they aren’t literally publicly available and easily obtainable, they should be treated as such.
Unless you’ve been a hermit or homeless for the entirety of your life, just about anyone can get your SSN from Accurint or TLO for a few bucks.
Sure, in theory Accurint and TLO do KYC. In practice you can find tons of people on various crime forums offering those lookups for a few dollars a pop.
That's so stupid. Just because I posted a video on TikTok doesn't mean someone should be able to go to the city's public website, look me up on a yellow page and download my photo id and fingerprints.
What treating this biometric info as public means is that it won’t be accepted as valid proof of identity. Just because you posted a video on TikTok shouldn’t mean that a scammer can take out a loan in your name.
Many SSNs have been compromised already. The jig is up. It was never supposed to be an identity system but organisations keep insisting on using it as one. Even if they aren’t literally publicly available and easily obtainable, they should be treated as such.
https://constella.ai/verifying-the-national-public-data-brea...
Unless you’ve been a hermit or homeless for the entirety of your life, just about anyone can get your SSN from Accurint or TLO for a few bucks.
Sure, in theory Accurint and TLO do KYC. In practice you can find tons of people on various crime forums offering those lookups for a few dollars a pop.
That's not what GP said though.
The point was not to make them publicly available but treat them as if they had already leaked and allowed anyone to frame anyone else.
Visit a bus stop, pick up a stubbed out cigarette, leave it at the scene of your next crime.
You're gonna want somewhere where people are much more likely to have a record and be in the system than a bus stop.
A bus stop in a rough part of town then.
1. Most people already share this data in the form of photos posted online.
2. So people don't treat it as a "secure secret," because we've been down this road more than once before.
That's so stupid. Just because I posted a video on TikTok doesn't mean someone should be able to go to the city's public website, look me up on a yellow page and download my photo id and fingerprints.
That’s not what the poster meant.
What treating this biometric info as public means is that it won’t be accepted as valid proof of identity. Just because you posted a video on TikTok shouldn’t mean that a scammer can take out a loan in your name.
> 1. Most people already share this data in the form of photos posted online.
So most people have a red iris. Problem solved. /s