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@bigbear said in Non-IT News Thread:
@scottalanmiller said in Non-IT News Thread:
Singer Tom Petty has passed away at age 66.
Amazing that everyone I have mentioned this to today who claims not to know Tom Petty, knows at least 4 or 5 of his songs I play them...
I told my wife the same thing and she was like "who?". I had to send her a youtube video just to remind her.
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@nerdydad said in Non-IT News Thread:
@bigbear said in Non-IT News Thread:
@scottalanmiller said in Non-IT News Thread:
Singer Tom Petty has passed away at age 66.
Amazing that everyone I have mentioned this to today who claims not to know Tom Petty, knows at least 4 or 5 of his songs I play them...
I told my wife the same thing and she was like "who?". I had to send her a youtube video just to remind her.
So odd, he's a HUGE artist.
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2 of my siblings didn't know who he was either (but they are deaf so I will excuse it). My almost 20 year old knew who he was
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Has the original Santa Claus been found in Turkey?
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@scottalanmiller said in Non-IT News Thread:
Has the original Santa Claus been found in Turkey?
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-41504172Isn't turkey supposed to be in Santa Claus?
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@nadnerb said in Non-IT News Thread:
@scottalanmiller said in Non-IT News Thread:
Has the original Santa Claus been found in Turkey?
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-41504172Isn't turkey supposed to in in Santa Claus?
What?
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@scottalanmiller said in Non-IT News Thread:
@nadnerb said in Non-IT News Thread:
@scottalanmiller said in Non-IT News Thread:
Has the original Santa Claus been found in Turkey?
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-41504172Isn't turkey supposed to in in Santa Claus?
What?
Said Santa to the turkey:
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@black3dynamite said in Non-IT News Thread:
Interesting since SS# specifically are not an ID at all.
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@scottalanmiller said in Non-IT News Thread:
@black3dynamite said in Non-IT News Thread:
Interesting since SS# specifically are not an ID at all.
Yet they're used as such all the time.... because people are dumb and ignore what said items actual use is supposed to be fore.
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@travisdh1 said in Non-IT News Thread:
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@black3dynamite said in Non-IT News Thread:
Interesting since SS# specifically are not an ID at all.
Yet they're used as such all the time.... because people are dumb and ignore what said items actual use is supposed to be fore.
No one uses them as a national ID. That's illegal. Private companies use them, but that's not at all the same thing.
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Tha'ts why you can sue so easily for compromised IDs, because they compromised something not backed by anyone.
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@travisdh1 said in Non-IT News Thread:
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@black3dynamite said in Non-IT News Thread:
Interesting since SS# specifically are not an ID at all.
Yet they're used as such all the time.... because people are dumb and ignore what said items actual use is supposed to be fore.
it's not the people.. its the companies the people are doing business with that are basically forcing the use of SSN#.
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@dashrender said in Non-IT News Thread:
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@scottalanmiller said in Non-IT News Thread:
@black3dynamite said in Non-IT News Thread:
Interesting since SS# specifically are not an ID at all.
Yet they're used as such all the time.... because people are dumb and ignore what said items actual use is supposed to be fore.
it's not the people.. its the companies the people are doing business with that are basically forcing the use of SSN#.
Which will be unaffected by the fake change proposed.
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@scottalanmiller said in Non-IT News Thread:
@dashrender said in Non-IT News Thread:
@travisdh1 said in Non-IT News Thread:
@scottalanmiller said in Non-IT News Thread:
@black3dynamite said in Non-IT News Thread:
Interesting since SS# specifically are not an ID at all.
Yet they're used as such all the time.... because people are dumb and ignore what said items actual use is supposed to be fore.
it's not the people.. its the companies the people are doing business with that are basically forcing the use of SSN#.
Which will be unaffected by the fake change proposed.
What were they proposing that we move to?
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@nerdydad said in Non-IT News Thread:
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@dashrender said in Non-IT News Thread:
@travisdh1 said in Non-IT News Thread:
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@black3dynamite said in Non-IT News Thread:
Interesting since SS# specifically are not an ID at all.
Yet they're used as such all the time.... because people are dumb and ignore what said items actual use is supposed to be fore.
it's not the people.. its the companies the people are doing business with that are basically forcing the use of SSN#.
Which will be unaffected by the fake change proposed.
What were they proposing that we move to?
Not using SSN as the national ID. Which we don't do currently. So they are proposing "no change."
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@scottalanmiller said in Non-IT News Thread:
@nerdydad said in Non-IT News Thread:
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@dashrender said in Non-IT News Thread:
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@black3dynamite said in Non-IT News Thread:
Interesting since SS# specifically are not an ID at all.
Yet they're used as such all the time.... because people are dumb and ignore what said items actual use is supposed to be fore.
it's not the people.. its the companies the people are doing business with that are basically forcing the use of SSN#.
Which will be unaffected by the fake change proposed.
What were they proposing that we move to?
Not using SSN as the national ID. Which we don't do currently. So they are proposing "no change."
That's over stating it. It's correct to say it's not a national ID, the federal government doesn't recognize it as a national ID, but MANY institutions do use it as a primary basis of identification of a person.
The article specifically mentioned using
"modern cryptographic identifier," like public and private keys.
Though this will likely fail miserably as well. The only way it works is if the only person who has the private key is the citizen, but what happens when the citizen undoubtedly looses/misplaces their private key?
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@dashrender said in Non-IT News Thread:
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@black3dynamite said in Non-IT News Thread:
Interesting since SS# specifically are not an ID at all.
Yet they're used as such all the time.... because people are dumb and ignore what said items actual use is supposed to be fore.
it's not the people.. its the companies the people are doing business with that are basically forcing the use of SSN#.
Which will be unaffected by the fake change proposed.
What were they proposing that we move to?
Not using SSN as the national ID. Which we don't do currently. So they are proposing "no change."
That's over stating it. It's correct to say it's not a national ID, the federal government doesn't recognize it as a national ID, but MANY institutions do use it as a primary basis of identification of a person.
It's not overstating it. It is stating it exactly correctly. You are tacking on a red herring. Yes, many companies use it as a broken ID, but what does that have to do with the price of milk? That's not what the government was discussing.
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@scottalanmiller said in Non-IT News Thread:
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@black3dynamite said in Non-IT News Thread:
Interesting since SS# specifically are not an ID at all.
Yet they're used as such all the time.... because people are dumb and ignore what said items actual use is supposed to be fore.
it's not the people.. its the companies the people are doing business with that are basically forcing the use of SSN#.
Which will be unaffected by the fake change proposed.
What were they proposing that we move to?
Not using SSN as the national ID. Which we don't do currently. So they are proposing "no change."
That's over stating it. It's correct to say it's not a national ID, the federal government doesn't recognize it as a national ID, but MANY institutions do use it as a primary basis of identification of a person.
It's not overstating it. It is stating it exactly correctly. You are tacking on a red herring. Yes, many companies use it as a broken ID, but what does that have to do with the price of milk? That's not what the government was discussing.
Sure it is, they are just using the wrong words - they are talking about it incorrectly, but that is their goal.
Businesses have glomed onto this thing called a SSN# and have decided to use it as a unique person identifier. It has become a defacto national ID.
it would be more accurate for these people to say - since business has adobted our SSN# as a defacto national ID, and clearly this is a bad thing, we need to kill the SSN# system and move to something else that the business industry can glom onto, and this time we'll think about it and find something that hopefully will be a more secure solution.
