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by kadoban 1295 days ago
To be honest, that's close to how it should be in an ideal world. But US companies went down the obviously-moronic path of treating social security numbers as passwords and now we're stuck.

Eventually the bulk of the world will probably end up with some sort of government-managed crypto-ID, but it's sure going to take the US a long time to get there.