gotcha, ya the unnecessary stuff is often worse than the necessary.
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And then you have bullshit like in the US where fucking everyone "needs" your social security number. It's used for seemingly everything when the original use is right in the name. It's no wonder they're all (likely) compromised. We just froze all of the credit agencies. All we can do.
for sure, another funny thing about ssns is that they can be brute forced pretty easily if you know when and where someone was born