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> We really need to do something about social security numbers.

Get everybody to realize that identifiers and credentials are pretty much polar opposites in design space? Sounds like one of the many impossible infosec literacy crusades, unfortunately.

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Meanwhile Switzerland is implementing e-ID which gives citizens private and public keys so they can sign and prove things without leaking their whole identity.

The USPS, with their existing delivery infrastructure and massive presence, would be a great fit for doing this in the US. Think like DoD CAC cards, but for ordinary citizens.

It'll never happen, though.

You don't think the USPS is on the chopping block?? The new Postmaster General is from the FedEx BOD. https://www.commondreams.org/news/david-steiner-postal-servi...

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