[ewanm89]

1) US government should cancel all contracts with Equifax,

2) US government should demand a list of all effected SSNs

3) US government should use pre-breach tax data to issue replacement SSNs to all affected and send Equifax the bill for doing this.

3) US governments should ask the courts to consider any use of a breached SSN on any credit issued after breach date to not be enough evidence alone for any credit recovery processing (basically nullifing any credit after the breach for an affected SSN without the Banks being more careful with regards to identity checks).

[infogulch]

Except for the first #3 (counting is hard) I agree with all of these.

I just don't think it's practical to reissue millions upon millions of SSNs. We need a more permanent and secure system than SSN entirely.