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AngryDatayesterday at 7:11 PM1 replyview on HN

To be fair many SS cards were printed stating right on them they aren't for ID usage.


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simoncionyesterday at 8:34 PM

Yep. Social Security numbers are not guaranteed to be unique, and for a very long time, were pretty easy to figure out if you knew roughly when a person was born and where.

"I know! We'll use this number that its issuing agency says is most definitely not to be used for identification purposes for identification purposes!" is real PHB thinking.