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What are social security numbers if not just another bit of information that wants to be free?

Or perhaps you are saying that people that have an interest in the availability of particular information should have some control on that information's freedom...

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The idea that any widely transmitted identifiers' confidentiality should be its primary method of security is asinine.

The failure of any exploit regarding SSNs or the like is not on the offending party, but on each using party's failure to implement even a modicum of actual security.

FYI calling something "asinine" is not an argument.

A widely transmitted identifier that tons of organizations need to ask you for taxes is not secret. It's used to precisely identify who you claim to be. It's your username. There's not much to say about also treating it as your password except that it's asinine. It's like treating your first name/last name as a secret password.

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