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it's likely I could make a reasonable guess for the SSN. It is? I mean then why are we bothering to protect anything, this shit is all super available for any

• dekhn 3y ago
  SSNs are fairly predictable- if you know region of birth and DOB you can get awfully close, for a wide range of the population. https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.0904891106 https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.0904891106 Konerding's 12th law, amended: "There is no bit of pseudonymized data which cannot be de-anonymized by a sufficiently motivated MIT grad student" (not entirely joking; see https://archive.nytimes.com/bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2015/01/29/with-a-few-bits-of-data-researchers-identify-anonymous-people/ https://archive.nytimes.com/bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2015/01/2...)