someone had a scheme where you give each company a unique ID and if it leaks online you know which company to blame,
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@risottobias
You can usually do it with emails, at least you can with Gmail. Instead of "[email protected]" use "[email protected]", and the emails automatically get routed to your inbox. -
another way to do this is with https://simplelogin.io (#simplelogin) and that will hide the fact you use Gmail... or whatever provider you use for mail.
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I Thought I Saw A 2 :donor:replied to Risotto last edited by
@risottobias if you have your own domain this is even easier. I used to do it more diligently but after 10+ years of it I never experienced a single instance of an email address being used inappropriately. If an address starts to get spam you would know where it came from but that doesn't do anything to stop the spam. And the other data about you the breached company has is probably more valuable and there is nothing you can do about that.
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@g0xmkamovz yeah, but a random UUID, so that companies can't cheat and use a suffix used by another company
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@randomcruft @g0xmkamovz that's email, not national ID.
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Risottoreplied to I Thought I Saw A 2 :donor: last edited by
@ithoughtisawa2 that's email, not SSNs.
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@risottobias @g0xmkamovz what do you mean by “national ID”? if there was a scheme for it already do you have a link? in the US how would that even work? serious question, not trying to be a jerk.
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@randomcruft @g0xmkamovz if you replaced SSNs, what would it be with.
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Jima :Compromise_bi_flag:replied to I Thought I Saw A 2 :donor: last edited by
@ithoughtisawa2 @risottobias I've done this with my email for 20+ years, and it's identified plenty of sources of breaches for me.
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That is a great question! The challenge (as I see it) is that SSN is used across multiple companies and government orgs. If you give a bank, then an employer, and other unique IDs, how would it tie to the IRS for taxes, if the IRS has a different unique ID (or Social Security, as a functional example)?
I'm all for a different way, but the unfortunate intertwined nature of identification (in its current form) is a challenge... and pretty messed up IMO.
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Risottoreplied to Jima :Compromise_bi_flag: last edited by
@jima @ithoughtisawa2 sure, that's for emails. I was talking about SSNs.
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@randomcruft @g0xmkamovz possibly a per-link GUID that the IRS could de-conflict or you could notice if a specific company's GUID for you got breached (or shared around where they didn't say they would)