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by boxed 95 days ago
It's just a unique ID of a person, it's not a password. I don't see how you can be confused by this.
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It's also "anyone's brokerage account holdings, addresses, phone numbers" according to the comment that this subthread of the conversation is about.
It only gives read permissions, to make any changes requires a password.
So?