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>In just four attempts, they successfully predicted the first five digits of students’ social security numbers nearly 30 percent of the time—all from a single p
by IanDrake 15y ago
>In just four attempts, they successfully predicted the first five digits of students’ social security numbers nearly 30 percent of the time—all from a single photo.
The first 5 digits are not of much interest (compared to the last 5) AND it can only guess right 30% of the time if it has 4 tries....
This is a non event. This type of FUD is going to generate some sort of legislation that solves a problem we don't have. There are legitimate privacy problems, but this isn't one of them.
- tzs 15y agoThey are getting it right about 4 orders of magnitude more often than one would get from random guessing. You consider that a non-event?
- IanDrake 15y ago>You consider that a non-event? Yes. Guessing the first 5 SSN numbers gets you nowhere. Plus don't compare it to "random guessing". There's some simple logic to make educated guess that any human could do with a little effort. You should compare it to that, which really means they're not doing anything new. Guessing the last 4 would be different, but they can't do that.