[Social Security Cards Explained] (Viewer #2,244,672)
My driver’s license has more security features than a Vegas heist movie. Even my credit cards have holograms. And my cash has color-shifting ink. Social Security card… I could hand-draw one with a crayon that would be A) accepted everywhere B) more secure than the real thing.
Also, the U.S. military used to assign all members a unique serial number. Back in the 50s or 60s, somebody said, “Why don’t we use the Social Security Number instead?” The response was, “because it says right on the card, ‘Not to be used for identification’.” So instead, they started giving soldiers serial numbers which coincidentally were the same as their social security number.
Recently there has been such a hassle with identity theft that the military has considered returning to separate serial numbers, although I don’t think they’ve done it.