Timeline for Why not use a national ID as username for every website?
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| Oct 24, 2017 at 8:32 | answer | added | Peter | timeline score: -1 | |
| Oct 24, 2017 at 4:37 | comment | added | njzk2 | Think of all the places where you created an account (all of them). Now imagine that you use the same account name of all of them. Now imagine that it is possible to know if a given username exists on a particular website. | |
| Oct 23, 2017 at 10:21 | comment | added | Moshii | At First, create a Gmail account. WIth this account register facebook. Then you will have almost every website to connect with these two accounts. If you can't connect with Gmail or Facebook to a website, don't register there. | |
| Oct 20, 2017 at 21:09 | comment | added | bgiles | Missed the time window to edit... given just the last name, city (or just state?) of birth, and birthdate some researchers claim to be able to reliably guess the person's SSN down to just a handful of possibilities. Before the IRS required SSN for all claimed dependents many parents put it off until the oldest child hit first grade so the birth date and sequence number (based on registration date) were far less tightly coupled, to say nothing of parents moving in the meanwhile. | |
| Oct 20, 2017 at 21:00 | comment | added | bgiles | US SSNs also have very little entropy now. For tax reasons parents now quickly get an SSN for their kids and they're based on location, last name, date of registration, and a non-sequential counter. | |
| Oct 20, 2017 at 13:40 | comment | added | mattumotu | What if your country doesn't have national IDs? | |
| Oct 20, 2017 at 11:05 | comment | added | Arc | Well, Facebook, Google and the like are already establishing Internet-national IDs for you to single-sign-on. And they are the best examples why this is a bad idea the way it works right now. Central institutions have power over your identity and use it to track your every move. Also, you might want to switch your identity from time to time, but with this mechanism, you’re not supposed or allowed to. Facebook and Google have real name policies to help China and US prosecute you for speaking out (known as hate speech). | |
| Oct 20, 2017 at 4:10 | comment | added | Pharap | Certain websites using beacons are already doing this to track the browsing behaviours of individuals. Software attempting to block these attempts is widely available and used by people who view it as an unethical invasion of privacy. There are many people who don't want all their accounts tied to a single person and in fact like having their actions on one website appear separate to their actions on another. Would you be happy with your university knowing which porn websites you visit or what heinous insults you use on 4chan? | |
| Oct 20, 2017 at 1:26 | comment | added | ESR | Email address, Twitter connect, Facebook connect etc are ways in which you can already do this... | |
| Oct 19, 2017 at 13:12 | comment | added | Thomas | digid.nl/en | |
| Oct 19, 2017 at 12:23 | answer | added | Damon | timeline score: 1 | |
| Oct 19, 2017 at 8:36 | comment | added | Nathan | So for things like your bank, the tax authority, signing contracts, there's something in Sweden called mobileBankId. Give your id number to the website, and then by magic a request to verify yourself comes to the app on your phone. I haven't seen it for more "frivolous" services. It's like a more cautious version of single sign on. | |
| Oct 18, 2017 at 23:20 | comment | added | Nacht | +1, because while certainly a naive question, I have heard similar things from many people. | |
| Oct 18, 2017 at 21:30 | comment | added | Paul D. Waite | “Wouldn't it be better if we had one username for all of the websites in the world?” Um, no? | |
| Oct 18, 2017 at 16:48 | review | Close votes | |||
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| Oct 18, 2017 at 13:34 | comment | added | Caterpillaraoz | Out of curiosity: how did you get this idea in first place? | |
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| Oct 17, 2017 at 17:26 | answer | added | Greg Patnude | timeline score: -4 | |
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