On the Equifax breach and how to really prevent identity theft

1 · Erik Bernhardsson · Sept. 26, 2017, 4 a.m.
A funny thing about being a foreigner is how you realize people take broken things for granted. I’m going to go out on a limb here claiming that the US has a pretty dumb banking system. I could talk about it all day, but right now I want to focus on a very particular piece of it: how to verify your identity online. Of course, since the Equifax breach, people are freaking out about the fact that your SSN are floating around all over internet. That’s bad. But what’s even worse is that the system ...