Now that AT&T has lost all our social security numbers in a data breach, this is a great time for regulators to NOT ask what they should have done to secure it better, but why the phone company needed your SSN in the first place.
@0xMatt Way, way back I seem to recall there was a Federal admonition that the SSN is "Not to be used as a form of ID". It wasn't illegal though, so of course every company proceeded to do exactly that.
@0xMatt WHAT YOU MEAN “lost all our ssn in a data breach?
@0xMatt I haven't had att for about a decade and somehow they still had my ssn
@0xMatt And yes, the only reassuring thing is I will get 1 year of credit monitoring for something I have safeguarding all my life.
@0xMatt All these hackers stealing information almost every single day, and not one guy or girl has been like.."hey man, what if we just cancelled debts. What if we just reset credit card balances, students loans? Nah." Like shits sad man
@0xMatt We should really get rid of using the social security number as a identification that would solve the problem of them being leaked all the time
@0xMatt Time for some sort of biometric SSN thing that's got a picture and stuff. It's time to modernize it.