arstechnica.com — Two researchers have found that a pair of antifraud methods intended to increase the chances of detecting bogus social security numbers has actually allowed the statistical reconstruction of the number using information that many people place on social networking sites.
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captobviousJul 7, 2009
Won't work for me. I wasn't given a SSN when I was born, wasn't common practice then. So I got one when I was like 5, but by that time, I had moved to a different state than the one I was born in.
thegurustudJul 7, 2009
and filing for tax returns
tommygunn32Jul 8, 2009
It hasn't been a problem until someone figured it out and wrote an algorithm for it.I'm thinking the entire article is based on targeting someone and finding out when and where they were born. If you find out someone's birth place and date, but not their name, then, well, i dunno what to tell you.It's more feasible to brute force 10000 numbers on a computer than try 10000 keys in a lock. a few hundred milliseconds versus a few hours.
cjw10Jul 12, 2009
This is some scary stuff, pretty soon people will know my SSN.I fixed your comment.
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