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According to many comments, the US government DOES use SQL, and Musk is not understanding much what's going on.

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[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Oh yeah I agree that just getting a SSN is not a big issue itself but the fact that you can reverse engineer it from known information makes it not a very good security measure to prove identity.

[โ€“] Croquette 1 points 1 day ago

Oh I totally agree with that. It's dumb that there is so many systems that use SSNs as an identification.

My identity infos have been leaked with the Desjardins leaks, so my SSN is forever known and all the critical services that uses SSNs are now more vulnerable.