Social Security is a scam in my opinion, but if you're going to have such a scam, you should at least avoid using the unique ID for fucking everything else that has nothing to do with social security.
Bitcoin is my social security now, but I still have to worry about bullshit being opened in my name (I have frozen my credit at all bureaus, but that is not 100% safety for me) because my data is held outside of my control under piss poor security models. The only moral option is to allow people to publicly opt-out of this shit show and be done with it.
I don't want credit. I don't need AT&T to front me a month of service. I don't want to pay into government Pozi schemes. I want the government, companies, and criminals-the only people actually benefitting from this system as far as I'm concerned-to take my social security number and shove it right up their asses.
*End quarterly social security/data breach rant.*