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In Boston, a personal injury lawyer is recently doing a bus advertising sign that seems to be a play on "Better Call Saul" (of the scrappy fictional TV series character's ads).
https://www.reddit.com/r/boston/comments/1nboypw/someone_at_...
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We still have to pretend SSNs are private until both law and common practice change. I expect that to be “functionally never”. Maybe within our lifetimes. Maybe. My SSN is out there several times over at this point, thanks to breaches at phone companies, insurance companies, CRAs, ISPs, and the rest. I stopped tracking breaches that included the kind of info you’d need to impersonate me, about six years ago. The list…
The most American approach would be for SSNs to become a de facto universal ID number that you have to give everywhere, while still continuing to function as an unchangeable password to all your most important things.
Lol, this reminds me of a funny story. I had a lawyer whose name was Jim Halpert. Turns out he was the very Jim who was inspired his namesake on the office. Asked him about it once. His reply? "Hey, it's been great for getting clients." =) He was also very much like Jim on the show. Fun times.
It made me wonder how many of those characters are based on real people, since they themselves reminded me of another character I'll omit for privacy's sake...
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We do have personal numbers used for identification purposees, in my country we have the OIB https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Personal_identification_number... which superseded the JMBG https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unique_Master_Citizen_Number
JMBG? One of the ex-YU countries?
There's a lawyer in Philadelphia named Justin Bieber. I'm not sure which would be worse.
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> You're being naive. This is exactly what they do. You are being knee-jerk judgemental. They didn't say those things don't happen, just that it didn't appear the comms they received by mistake looked like less sinister interactions with the political world.
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That's impractical. Someone made a base8192 Hangul UUID conversion, only ten characters long.
This? https://alicecengal.github.io/uuid-hangul/
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I have a relatively rare name — I’ve actually never met anyone with my last name, never mind someone with my full name — and this happens to me regularly. Last week I got a job rejection from New Zealand post, for a while I was getting someone’s pay stub notifications from the US, etc. I suspect it’s because I was the first to register the first.last@gmail.com address for my name. I guess it’s a bit like owning a sim…
I use my lastname [at] gmail (same as my HN username). Over the years, I’ve received all sorts of misdirected messages: medical, financial, support, even real estate documents. When it seems important, I do my best to contact the sender and let them know. What I’ve learned is that “no-reply” email addresses can cause real harm in situations where it’s critical to reach an actual person.