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Not so hilariously for people this applies to, but the combination of name and DOB still isn't actually unique either. I'll skip rewording it and just leave this link

https://www.kalzumeus.com/2010/06/17/falsehoods-programmers-...



It doesn’t need to be absolutely unique though. It just needs to make the secondary market infeasible. I would argue that only being able to re-sell tickets on the secondary market to “Chris Smith” is going to result in essentially no ticket scalping.




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