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anyone can buy any SSN of a US person born after 2003. Why only 14-year-olds and younger?
Because the kids these days will enter their SSN and their parent's Credit Card into anything that looks like flappy bird to unlock the extra jump boost or something like that.
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Hate to break it to you, but with very minimal browsing and $4 in bitcoin, anyone can buy any SSN of a US person born after 2003.
anyone can buy any SSN of a US person born after 2003. Why only 14-year-olds and younger?
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Well, not yet, maybe? Given the state of the art in real-time video manipulation, including based in motion capture, I am not so sure that's gonna stay that way for long. Also, please don't use terms like "steal an identity", that is how banks frame things in order to make it appear that they are not responsible. Banks don't employ reliable authentication, thus they get defrauded by imposters--nothing is ever stolen…
You make some valid points here. I'm "excited" to see the influence of real-time machine learning. For now, it remains somewhat secure in practice and will hopefully bye augmented by use of cryptography already available in many IDs (though, as other comments note, not widely used in some countries)
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It's worth noting that the perpetrator in the bloomberg article had a fake driver's license in the name of the victim. So ID cards aren't a complete solution either.
But you get that ID card using an SSN card. Other countries have a photo attached to your nation ID card and citizen identification number (and sometimes fingerprints too). But think about America right now. Do you honestly think we could get national ID numbers? Could you imagine people being asked for a DNA swab or fingerprint to establish their identity? The blow black would be monstrous, and I don't think it'd be…
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Not all states require an SSN in order to issue an ID. I was under the impression that every single state requires an SSN to issue a driver's license or id card in order to track and enforce child support order across state lines. Which states don't require an SSN to issue an ID? Legal immigrants have passports, and ID cards/driver's licenses from their home country. I'm not sure what will require two forms of REAL I…
> I was under the impression that every single state requires an SSN to issue a driver's license or id card in order to track and enforce child support order across state lines. Nope. If they did, the impetus behind the REAL ID act wouldn't even be relevant, because illegal immigrants wouldn't be able to obtain a drivers' license or state ID. > Which states don't require an SSN to issue an ID? California is the bigge…
Missourians have good reason to distrust the DMV, as they have been caught red handed illegally useing their databases in the recent past.