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Re: amazonaws.com?

From: "Jay R. Ashworth" <jra () baylink com>
Date: Wed, 28 May 2008 14:41:03 -0400

On Wed, May 28, 2008 at 12:01:30PM -0500, Skywing wrote:

That's somewhat ironic of a sentiment you referred to there, given
that the conception that one should have to hand over one's SSN for
"verification" to anyone who asks for it is the kind of thing that
many of these spammers/phishers thrive on in the first place...


What...

are people still using SSNs as authenticators instead of identifiers,
20 years on?

Cheers,
-- jra
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