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No security in Social Security

By Denise Dubie, Network World, 07/10/2009
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Alessandro Acquisti, Carnegie Mellon UniversityAlessandro Acquisti, associate professor of Information Technology and Public Policy at the Heinz College at Carnegie Mellon University, explains why Social Security numbers were never intended for security and why SSNs shouldn’t be used as an authentication method. (10:06)

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