Your Social Security Card is Insecure

bold of you to assume that my library card is less important than my social security card

A funny story. I was born in 1947. I got my SS card in 1965 when I started working. One day, years later, I was working in a shop that asked for SSANs on checks. A fellow came in, wrote a check, and when I asked for his SSAN, it was one digit off mine. He'd gotten his in the same office, the same day I got mine.

''We don't want no national card to track us , dammit'' , they're going to be pissed when they hear about phones , credit cards , bank cards etc.

My university used to use the SSN as the primary student ID number -- instead of generating a random number or simply using a sequential index. My university has also always had a lot of foreign students, who did not have SSNs, so fake SSNs were generated and assigned to them. Of course it wasn't long before new students with real SSNs experienced conflicts with fake SSNs already in the database. I think it was the mid-2000-oughts when my university finally switched to generated student ID numbers.

Somewhere Joe Generic is wondering why his identity is being used 24/7

"There is nothing more permanent than a temporary solution." - Russian proverb

This makes me want to get a social insecurity card to show to people to let them know that sometimes I get anxious in crowds and conversations

You gotta love America, the land of taking the worst possible route to achieve virtually the same goal.

Ah yes, the opposite of Joe Exotic, Joe Generic

So basically, we have the absolute worst system for identification possible. Got it.

In all my years I never remember a national ID card ever being a hot topic in any political campaign

3:12 love how landlords are represented by someone who's angry. No other defining features, they're just angry at you

The fun part was when I fist immigrated to the USA and being denied a loan because they said my SSN was only a few months old so I didn't qualify. I had to then go through a whole silly process of proving I was an adult.

"they just need your time and location of birth" hey is that what all those astrology sites ask for? haha............. 😦

I remember signing up at a temporary employment agency. They wanted the social security number for identification and didnt think twice about reading the number off out loud in a crowded room to get your attention that they were ready for an interview.

Fun fact: if you're a twin like me, your social security numbers are most likely one digit apart. Not so fun fact: this causes a lot of problems involving your SSN because they're not so easy to identify apparently. True story: my twin had insurance quotes that soared to the thousands. When he called the company, it was because they believed my twin and I were the same person (so all our traffic infractions added up together); they were only able to separate us based on our drivers' ID. I also got a call from a credit card company, saying that I had a pending balance when it was clearly my twin's account because I, myself, did not have a credit card. So yeah, the SSN system sucks for us

Wait... America doesn't have a national identity card? And they use their superannuation number, printed on an regular piece of cardboard, with no picture, or address, or date of birth, or anything on it, as identification???... I have no words...

No joke I was able to guess my sister's SSN because of this video lol. We were born a minute apart in the same hospital

As a german, the US's governmental decision are hilariously wierd. Then again, I dont know enough by own government to confidently say that we aren't doing something just as wierd sometimes

When I applied for unemployment at one point, the unemployment office already had someone using my number. They casually mentioned this to me, before telling me not to worry about it. They approved my unemployment shortly thereafter.