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SSNs of people before 2011 contain place of birth as the first five digits, with the last four digits assigned sequentially. Your method provides no additional
by freeone3000 9y ago
SSNs of people before 2011 contain place of birth as the first five digits, with the last four digits assigned sequentially. Your method provides no additional security.
- pas 9y ago??? I simply argued that SSN is not security. It's at best identity. But it's a lousy one at that too, because it's hard to check and easy to fake. (You can fake the paper you get from the Social Security Admin easier than you can fake all the other pieces mentioned.) SSN is just dumb because it's a direct function of the mentioned attributes plus a counter, that nobody can really check. (No one can distinguish identical twins based on their claimed SSN.)