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With the frequency of these breaches, it feels like we are moving to a post-security world where SSNs and DOBs are simply public information. Would that really be such a bad thing? Both seem completely replaceable as authentication steps.
Most European countries have some sort of strong online authentication with two factor, so it is doable.
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Fantastic. Let's centralize all records from everybody in one central location that totally won't get hacked, by the same government that screwed up Healthcare.gov, your DMV, and just recently a war against militants wearing sandals.
Fantastic. Instead of one location that can be properly outfitted with the best practices let's have 1000 shitty ones.
After all, how did the NSA's top-secret Vault7 weapons get stolen considering that they were following "best practices"? And then proceed to bring havoc to the world with WannaCry...
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Fantastic. Let's centralize all records from everybody in one central location that totally won't get hacked, by the same government that screwed up Healthcare.gov, your DMV, and just recently a war against militants wearing sandals.
This is just an unhelpful argument. You might take issue with how government functions, and necessary improvements, but these government functions are still required in a developed nation.
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Fantastic. Let's centralize all records from everybody in one central location that totally won't get hacked, by the same government that screwed up Healthcare.gov, your DMV, and just recently a war against militants wearing sandals.
The EU has a federated public key cryptography based identity system. The member states recognize identities issued by other member states, but there is no central system. In any case, the private key is stored on a plastic ID, only released with a PIN, and the databases only store the corresponding public key. A leak of a public key without the private key is harmless. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/EIDAS
Why should T-Mobile care who it is they are giving phone service to? As long as the bills are paid on time, it shouldn't matter. Here's my order ID and my password.
And before anyone makes the terrorism argument, it would seem that our country has deprioritized that initiative.
There should be zero reason for a phone company to even have our SSNs. We really need a public national ID system in the US.
Serious question, how would that be any different than a SSN?
When I go to a bank for a loan, I should give them some form of private id as proof I am who I say I am (this doesn't have to be a federally issued number).
When companies communicate about me with each other (such as running a credit check on me which is likely why T-Mobile even had SSNs) they should use my public id.
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Well, the government in the US functions just fine without the centralized ID System the OP is wishing for, even though stuff like this occurs. There is literally no reason why Americans would trust the central government to be more secure than T-Mobile at this point.
It clearly doesn’t, and it’s foolish to say it does based on the evidence.