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by EMCymatics 845 days ago
Worked at a place that put your last four of your ssn for the vending machine. I really hated that.
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ELI5 please
Some places (colleges were very bad about this) would use your SSN as both an ID and a password - so to buy at the cafeteria you’d swipe your student ID and your PIN was the last four of your social.

Some workplaces did it too. It’s mostly gone now, but pieces still remain.

Given that many college students don’t even have SSNs (international students have no reason to get one until they want to work somewhere), this makes zero sense. What college does this?
It was standard 20-30 years ago. International students would be "assigned" some number that may or may not overlap with an actual SSN.

Shit was wack, yo.