I’m getting “wallet” vibes which should absolutely not be where one keeps important documents. I had mine in a shoe box under my bed as a teen and it survived unscathed.
Heck, I have a 15 year old free pizza stamp card from a shop that permanently closed in better condition. Haha!
Edit: someone came through and downvoted every comment for the heck of it? Haha! Youuu get an updoot, and yooou get an updoot… etc.
Hopefully you’ll get to cash in that stamp card one day! Give it another 15 years.
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My ex’s dad laminated his whole ass birth certificate. He had a bitch of a time fixing that lmao.
Though I think people ask for birth certificate less often than they do our SIN (and also our SIN cards are actual literal cards in Canada not just pieces of paper).
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They stopped issuing cards and just print it on a full 8.5"x11" piece of paper now actually lol.
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Yep. There’s no reason to carry this around with you on the daily. Stick it in a file in a safe file box of some sort. I can’t remember the last time someone asked for a physical SS card…maybe when we applied for my kids’ passports? No idea.
Maybe OP applies for a lot of jobs and is brown enough to be told they need to actually see it? Iunno
I never knew you couldn’t laminate them? Why would they do something like that?
Oh, you forgot the part where you are only allowed a fixed number of replacements in your lifetime.
10 in your life. 3 each year.
I’ve had mine laminated for almost fifty years.
Your SS card doesn’t look a day over 40. <3
Aww
Oh youYour SS card
So they moved away from tattoos huh
SSA will give you a free replacement card. I think TRUMP wanted to charge money for it, but not sure if that plan went through.
Only up to 10 in your lifetime though:
But weirdly only if it was issued after 2005?
There was an antiterrorism law that was passed in 2004 (as a result of 9/11), that went into effect in 2005 that set this limit.
There are a few (difficult, but possible) ways to get extra copies despite the limit though, like changing your name
Why is Trump in all capitals?
That’s how the man himself writes his name.
Are you assuming his capitalisation?
I assume a lot of things about that guy.
Was Trump a SovCit this whole time? Does he think TRUMP the corporate entity created by his birth certificate was elected President in 2016 rather than he the living person, and thus he can’t be prosecuted for crimes that the corporate entity created in his name allegedly committed?
This might actually work 🤔
Canada issues their SSN cards in hard plastic, which IME is far superior to any credit card plastic. It’s been in my wallet since 1990 and while it looks old, it’s in better shape than almost all of my credit cards - none of which are older than 5 years.
Scanning is allowed? A photo?
Any verification requires the physical document.
That’s just plain stupid… Get a federal ID already like most countries.
Eh, I can’t remember the last time I needed to show my social security card. It might have been 2006, when I moved to this state. It’s EXTREMELY rare that we need the physical card. We need the number more often, but most people will have memorized that.
Still, you cannot change the number and it’s a disaster if it leaks, which is very easy. Instead, our country uses IDs with chips that can be used with standard readers to securely authenticate with government and private services online. There is also a changeable PIN and optional third-factor authentication. People who cannot or don’t want to use the system need to visit the institution or a CzechPoint site and show the physical card and their face.
Yeah. In our case it’s worth noting that the social security number system wasn’t designed to be used the way it is used. It was just meant for retirement tracking.
Now if we tried what you described, we’d probably have people screeching about the number of the beast and new evil Democrat deep state conspiracy theories. Sigh.
If you pitch it as “authority of a driver’s license combined with the convenience and security of a chip-based credit card”, it may not be hard to get people on board. It might help to bundle it with benefits such as more automated direct tax filing.
Our country’s post office operates a Datová schránka (“Digital Mailbox”) system where you can basically send email-like messages to people, businesses and institutions that carry the authority of registered mail but delivered in a minute and 10x cheaper. This is optional for individuals and mandatory for businesses, and you need to authenticate with your ID card online or at post offices (which also accept driver’s licenses and passports) to access it (though you can get email/SMS notifications of new mail). The cost is there to limit spam, and to send a message, you need to know the recipient’s address (public for companies, private for individuals unless they choose to publish it). Most people don’t use it but businessmen love the speed and reduction in paperwork. Because right-wing people tend to adore business efficiency and this makes contracts fast and secure, this might help the US ID adoption too.
ukraine just relies on electronic signatures (usually issued by banks) for online identity verification. (these are usually just jks keystores)
you can put them on hardware keys if you want toalternatively, bankid or diia can be used
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bankid pulls info directly from your bank, using online banking credentials
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diia is an electronic ID app and comes with built-in identity verification and signing features (authenticated by biometry/phone pin + a face scan with specified action (e.g. blink or tilt your head) + 5 digit pin).
the app can be activated by scanning the NFC chip in passport or id card + doing a face scan, or by using the BankID system. (if you already have a bank account, or your phone doesn’t support nfc), which is slightly faster as the face scan is quite annoying (as it requires perfect lighting conditions)
the key used by the app cannot be exported tho, if you need a jks keystore, the only option is to get one from the bank.
(By the way, the app’s name, “дія,” is quite clever. It stands for “action,” but it’s actually an acronym for “держава і я” which translates to “government and me.”)
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I need it for filling out I9s. There is probably an easier way but driver’s license of social security card is the easiest way for me. If I had a passport that would work too.
While you’re at it, get the metric system too!
Somebody laminated my birth certificate. But what are they going to do about it, unborn me? Wait… will they?
Edit: What if somebody laminates my death certificate? 😭
They could make you go get another one when you try to use it, which is a pain in the ass.
How often are you even using your death certificate? I mean, yeah, the discount at Disneyworld is a sweet deal, but otherwise?
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That’s how zombies are created.
We’ve really gotta regulate these laminators.
Never going to happen. The lamination lobby has deep pockets.
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I’m pretty sure that they removed the restriction on lamination at some point. But I’m not really sure.
You can make a copy and laminate the copy.
I got mine in 1986 and it pretty much looks like the picture.
Fun side note: back then, you didn’t get a social security number until you were old enough to get a job. I was fourteen when I got my social security number.
LOL, no. I was born in '71 and my parents got me one immediately. I remember them showing me as a child and thinking, “Why do I care about this?”
Yeah, I was born in 80 and have had it since birth.
Same.
Good for you and your parents, but it wasn’t common until 1986 when Reagan’s new tax code suddenly required social security numbers for dependents. It was 1987 when they started rolling it out as part of the birth at the hospital.
Your lol no tone implies I don’t remember my own teen years.
You said we didn’t get ss numbers until we got jobs and we said no.
I mean, for sure you could. In my country would didn’t get an ID card/number until you needed to get a job or travel by plane. I got mine when I was 12. But nowadays babies always get their I’d card after birth.
My wife found out you can get one earlier as long as your parents sign off on it. They then used her social security to scam some loans while she’s a child, which fucked her up later when she moves out on her own and tried to get an apartment.
This is extremely common, and one of the reasons that using SSN for credit reports is a horrible practice. The only way for someone to dispute the debts is to report their parents to the authorities, which is a horrible position to be in when you’re freshly 18. The real solution would be a simple age check, to verify if the person applying for the loan is actually 18. But that
is apparently too difficultwould prevent banks from saddling literal children with mountains of debt.
I work at a DMV. I have seen 10 yr old cards shredded to shit and 80 year cards in near mint condition. If great grandpappy can do it, yall can too.
man, not everyone has an easy life 😔
back in high school I stuck mine in a hard plastic card case. Wherever it is now that I lost it, should at least be in good shape almost 30 years later.
I can confirm that it is indeed in great shape!
I’ve heard blur is not destructive. Please use a paintbrush on 100% opacity if you do this
Depends on the kind of blur. Some kinds can indeed be almost perfectly removed if you know the used blurring function, others are destructive. But, yes, don’t take that chance. Always delete/paint over sensitive information.
Source: we had to do just that in a course I took a long time ago.
Always paint over sensitive information.
Not in PDF tho. There, the stroke is saved in metadata…
Ah man, I remember when they caught some pedo creep who used a non-destructive blur on the CSAM materials he produced that included his face. So satisfying.
He only spiral blurred his face… So they just did it in the opposite direction. It was beyond stupid
wouldn’t you also need to know in what kind of pattern the blur was applied. I am sure if you do it multiple times starting from multiple non identical partitioning of the region, it will be impossible.
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I prefer sampling the surroundings, typing out a different number or text over it, then blurring with a non destructive effect.
Name: Phil McCracken
SSN: EAT-MY-NUTS
Just for anyone who tries
Signature: …
When I post pictures with blurred information, I replace the info with something trollish and then blur it. Nobody appreciated that so far. :(
I’ve switched to a mosaic blur. Looks neat and always destructive.
Actually not always, there is a script that can recover text from mosaic’d screenshots if the font and pixellation technique is known. I just use a fake mosaic – the easiest way is to paste a bitmap of non-confidential text from elsewhere in the screenshot and then apply the filter.
Thanks for that.
I’m glad I use really huge pixels though. Would be hard to crack these:
like, you can get a new one though to be fair, I just got a brand new one, granted it was after legally changing my name but I’m certain you can just have one reprinted without a name change, I don’t even think it costs anything.
I also don’t understand carrying it around, my partner does, but I just have my number memorized, and the card itself is kept safe, for the few times in my life I will need the actual physical card.
