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Scary AT&T breach leaks up to 70 million Social Security numbers to the dark web (www.macworld.com)

submitted 7 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/13810367

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 7 months ago (2 children)

Is there any way we could do some sort of certificate based authentication? Instead of a social security number. I know people get really dodgy whenever you talk about ways to identify them but there has to be a better way than this.

Identity fraud can ruin your life permanently and at this point I'm pretty sure more people have been compromised than haven't.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago (1 children)

World coin!

(Not really world coin is a terrible idea)

[–] [email protected] 7 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Bill Gates has been trying for awhile.