Social Security Number in the US pre-dates the internet and any concerns people had about privacy. People used to include it on their pre-printed personal checks along with their name and address.
SSNs don't even have a checksum to detect typos, nor any convenient mechanism to issue a replacement number if one is compromised.
Using the security flaws of the SSN implementation to justify security flaws in any modern identity system is just not rational. If anything it shows that people didn't learn from history.
SSNs don't even have a checksum to detect typos, nor any convenient mechanism to issue a replacement number if one is compromised.
Using the security flaws of the SSN implementation to justify security flaws in any modern identity system is just not rational. If anything it shows that people didn't learn from history.