On: Inside the "3 billion people" national public data breach

[acchow]

Not only an identifier, many places use it as a secret.

[chii → acchow]

Plenty of places also use mother's maiden name as a password/secret too.

[beretguy → acchow]

DBA at my previous job wanted to use SSN as a primary key. I felt like I’m talking to a child trying to convince him not to do that.

[cbsmith → acchow]

Which is dumb.

[Aeolun → cbsmith]

One could argue criminal.

Feel like it’s kinda like my bank using my email as the password or something.

[cbsmith → Aeolun]

You're not wrong.