Your Social Security Number Now Looks Like a Time Bomb. It Is
The Equifax hack raises the question: Why do we still have these lifelong sitting ducks? Who’s tried to kill them and why they’re not dead yet.
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One Ring to rule them all, One Ring to find them,
One Ring to bring them all, and in the darkness bind them.
—J.R.R. Tolkien
David Haas doesn't like to give out his Social Security number. He fends off all the requests he can, from doctors, credit card companies, the bureaucracy at large. In the end, it was summer camp that got him.