• Doxatek@mander.xyz
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    3 months ago

    I like how my social security card explicitly says not to be for identification and tax purposes only. But I need for absolutely fucking everything and to identify I’m a citizen. Can hardly sign up for a new email without a SSN. (Exaggerating of course about the email)

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      3 months ago

      to identify I’m a citizen.

      It’s kinda worse than that — it’s used to authenticate yourself as a citizen.

      My SSN should at most be an ID, no different from a name. I can identify myself as Darth Vader or 4200-69-1337, but that shouldn’t matter, because I should never be able to authenticate myself as either of those.