• Ebby
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    I’m getting “wallet” vibes which should absolutely not be where one keeps important documents. I had mine in a shoe box under my bed as a teen and it survived unscathed.

    Heck, I have a 15 year old free pizza stamp card from a shop that permanently closed in better condition. Haha!

    Edit: someone came through and downvoted every comment for the heck of it? Haha! Youuu get an updoot, and yooou get an updoot… etc.

  • @[email protected]
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    “This single plain-text string of characters defines your entire identity in the eyes of the government, creditors, health care, everything. Good luck keep it safe!”

    • @[email protected]
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      Please don’t give your SSN to health care institutions, they don’t need it. They like to ask for it on their intake forms so that they can find you more easily if they need to send your debt to collections, but most will accept a blank entry anyways.

  • @[email protected]
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    Get married and change your last name! You’ll get a brand new one. Works for men too, trust me!

        • Jessica
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          41 year ago

          Or you could get a social security card with the name Turd Ferguson on it. I mean, if you’re already going through the trouble of doing paperwork, what’s a little more?

  • @[email protected]
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    Somebody laminated my birth certificate. But what are they going to do about it, unborn me? Wait… will they?

    Edit: What if somebody laminates my death certificate? 😭

    • @[email protected]
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      Late but I think it’ll depend where you are and what security features birth certificates where you are have. Where I am, the paper has a unique feel to it and also has one of those little hologram type sticker things on the back. So I imagine laminating it would cause issues in official circumstances where they want to feel the paper. Also not sure if it’d affect the sticker things or not, but the heat from the laminator could cause damage if done wrong

      But if the BDM department where you are is lazy and literally just print your info onto an official looking piece of paper, I’d argue the point. I don’t see what laminating it would do in that situation, although when it comes to government departments, they don’t tend to be very flexible. If you were just showing it to verify your identity or working rights for a job or something I doubt anybody would refuse it in either situation

      • @[email protected]
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        How often are you even using your death certificate? I mean, yeah, the discount at Disneyworld is a sweet deal, but otherwise?

    • @[email protected]
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      Yep. There’s no reason to carry this around with you on the daily. Stick it in a file in a safe file box of some sort. I can’t remember the last time someone asked for a physical SS card…maybe when we applied for my kids’ passports? No idea.

      • Jojo
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        Maybe OP applies for a lot of jobs and is brown enough to be told they need to actually see it? Iunno

  • Hazmatastic
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    I’ve heard blur is not destructive. Please use a paintbrush on 100% opacity if you do this

    • @[email protected]
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      431 year ago

      When I post pictures with blurred information, I replace the info with something trollish and then blur it. Nobody appreciated that so far. :(

    • @[email protected]
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      Depends on the kind of blur. Some kinds can indeed be almost perfectly removed if you know the used blurring function, others are destructive. But, yes, don’t take that chance. Always delete/paint over sensitive information.

      Source: we had to do just that in a course I took a long time ago.

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        61 year ago

        Always paint over sensitive information.

        Not in PDF tho. There, the stroke is saved in metadata…

      • @[email protected]
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        wouldn’t you also need to know in what kind of pattern the blur was applied. I am sure if you do it multiple times starting from multiple non identical partitioning of the region, it will be impossible.

      • @[email protected]
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        I prefer sampling the surroundings, typing out a different number or text over it, then blurring with a non destructive effect.

      • @[email protected]
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        Ah man, I remember when they caught some pedo creep who used a non-destructive blur on the CSAM materials he produced that included his face. So satisfying.

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          He only spiral blurred his face… So they just did it in the opposite direction. It was beyond stupid

      • ChaoticNeutralCzech
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        Actually not always, there is a script that can recover text from mosaic’d screenshots if the font and pixellation technique is known. I just use a fake mosaic – the easiest way is to paste a bitmap of non-confidential text from elsewhere in the screenshot and then apply the filter.

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    31 year ago

    like, you can get a new one though to be fair, I just got a brand new one, granted it was after legally changing my name but I’m certain you can just have one reprinted without a name change, I don’t even think it costs anything.

    I also don’t understand carrying it around, my partner does, but I just have my number memorized, and the card itself is kept safe, for the few times in my life I will need the actual physical card.

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    I work at a DMV. I have seen 10 yr old cards shredded to shit and 80 year cards in near mint condition. If great grandpappy can do it, yall can too.

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      back in high school I stuck mine in a hard plastic card case. Wherever it is now that I lost it, should at least be in good shape almost 30 years later.

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    Fun fact, there is a lifetime limit for the number of replacements you can get for these (I forget but I think it’s like 12), if you lose too many no more social security card for you

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    I got mine in 1986 and it pretty much looks like the picture.

    Fun side note: back then, you didn’t get a social security number until you were old enough to get a job. I was fourteen when I got my social security number.

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      My wife found out you can get one earlier as long as your parents sign off on it. They then used her social security to scam some loans while she’s a child, which fucked her up later when she moves out on her own and tried to get an apartment.

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        This is extremely common, and one of the reasons that using SSN for credit reports is a horrible practice. The only way for someone to dispute the debts is to report their parents to the authorities, which is a horrible position to be in when you’re freshly 18. The real solution would be a simple age check, to verify if the person applying for the loan is actually 18. But that is apparently too difficult would prevent banks from saddling literal children with mountains of debt.

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      LOL, no. I was born in '71 and my parents got me one immediately. I remember them showing me as a child and thinking, “Why do I care about this?”

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        Good for you and your parents, but it wasn’t common until 1986 when Reagan’s new tax code suddenly required social security numbers for dependents. It was 1987 when they started rolling it out as part of the birth at the hospital.

        Your lol no tone implies I don’t remember my own teen years.

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        I mean, for sure you could. In my country would didn’t get an ID card/number until you needed to get a job or travel by plane. I got mine when I was 12. But nowadays babies always get their I’d card after birth.

  • shiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiit
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    I understand social security to mean paying into a state pension, a national healthcare service, and provision of education.

    What does social security mean in the American context?

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      In the US Social Security is retirement income. SS tax comes out of every paycheck then when you retire you will get monthly income. So state pension but none of the other good stuff.

      • Depends what your spending is like. Someone who earns like 30K/year should get about 65% of their earning if they retire at 65. You’d have to save like another $1500/year (including company matches) to make up the difference.

        If I kept working til I was like 70 and my pay only keeps up with inflation, I’d get about 130% of my spending via social security.

    • @[email protected]
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      It was originally just a number to track contributions to quasi-pension system. However, because it was the only number universally assigned to people, it stated getting used way more often, most notably for credit issuers and reporting agencies.

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      Depends on who you ask. For millennials and younger, it means paying lots of money into a service that will be dissolved before we get to tap into it.

      It’s also a number that’s supposed to be kept secure or something, but applying for pretty much anything requires you to provide it.

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        Yeah, it became a sort of federal identification since the US government didn’t want to make a federal ID and now we are stuck with a much more inferior system than if they just did anything. Since everyone got a SS card it became the de facto ID.

    • AwkwardLookMonkeyPuppet
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      Irrelevant to the topic at hand. This is a social security card, which displays your social security number, which is the closest thing we have to a national ID. It is used for all things financial and for identity verification & background checks. If someone gets your name, address, and social security number, you can be in for a real bad time.

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        Which is unfortunately easy to do. There are some of those search sites that include SSNs on them. Haven’t seen one that detailed in a few years, but still. Just today I found a site that had addresses, phone numbers, email addresses, and relatives. All accurate and all freely available, no registration required.

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          To add to the problem, social security was never meant to be an national ID number. It was just really useful for a whole lot of things. However, numbers are handed out sequentially, not randomly. So take your SIN and add or subtract one from it and that is another person’s SIN. Knowing just a few simple things about a person can reveal most if not their entire SIN.

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          Especially when Equifax leaked nearly half of all Americans’ names, social security numbers, addresses, birthdays, and driver license number in 2017. That info is just out there and we can never remove it.

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          When I was a food service manager I inexplicably had access to the social security numbers of everyone who had ever applied to work there. Thousands.

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    SSA will give you a free replacement card. I think TRUMP wanted to charge money for it, but not sure if that plan went through.