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by packet_nerd 2523 days ago
It really should not be acceptable for financial contracts either.

Consumers lost more than 16B to fraud in 2016:

https://www.cnbc.com/2017/02/01/consumers-lost-more-than-16b...

The Equifax breach lost data of 145 million Americans.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Equifax#May%E2%80%93July_2017_...

Passwords are still the norm for online authentication, despite providing terrible user-hostile security. The US social security number is used both as an identifier, and as a static never-changing password.