Tweaking Social Security to Combat Fraud

Tweaking Social Security to Combat Fraud
Tim Mullen, 2008-02-13

Americans lost over 45 billion dollars in identity-related fraud in 2007. Reports are so commonplace that we've actually become de-sensitized to them. "200,000 victims reported..." "500,000 victims reported..." Even figures into the millions don't seem to faze us anymore. And that is a Bad Thing.

Tweaking Social Security to Combat Fraud 2008-02-13
Bob

The problem is not the permanance of SSN.
The problem is that SSN is a loginid and
password, all rolled into one. Of course,
a loginid must be public, and a password must
be secret, so SSN necessarily fails in some way.

The solution, IMHO, is to publish ALL SSNs
and names on a public web p...

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