It is the same thing that happened with US Social Security Numbers, which were originally just tracking numbers for that one purpose that were coopted by capitalists and treated like something special.
this post was submitted on 20 Jan 2025
857 points (98.2% liked)
Technology
60663 readers
4090 users here now
This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.
Our Rules
- Follow the lemmy.world rules.
- Only tech related content.
- Be excellent to each another!
- Mod approved content bots can post up to 10 articles per day.
- Threads asking for personal tech support may be deleted.
- Politics threads may be removed.
- No memes allowed as posts, OK to post as comments.
- Only approved bots from the list below, to ask if your bot can be added please contact us.
- Check for duplicates before posting, duplicates may be removed
Approved Bots
founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
I remember I was flipping through some of my mom's old college stuff and there was a club that she was involved with and everyone listed their address and social security numbers. It was wild, no idea why they felt the need to collect socials. But this was a very long time ago.
My college ID used to be my social security number, so maybe it was something like that? Iirc that's no longer allowed in the US.
load more comments
(1 replies)
load more comments
(5 replies)
Theres an LTT video where one of the boys intercept all Linus' calls and texts, classic prank.
load more comments
(1 replies)
I absolutely love this.
Are Internet security and Internet privacy incompatible goals?
They are if the security is tied to knowing that an account is a person.